Cloud Holding

Cloud Holding is NYC-based Bryce Hackford’s fifth album, and first for Futura Resistenza. Seven sound sculptures are coaxed out of recorded improvisations by a group of musicians–Ka Baird, Shelley Burgon, Alice Cohen, Michael Hurder, Dominika Mazurova, Camilla Padgitt-Coles–and worked into formless figures that express an always drifting present. Guided by the Suzuki Nobara–a kind of electric koto with many traditional instrument sounds and unique pitch adjustment controls–and the lyric-less utterances of the human voice, Cloud Holding traces delicate outlines in a collaborative sound world that shines with mysterious, searching affinity.