"New pieces by Jocelyn Morlock, Rodney Sharman and Jennifer Butler vary in idiom from Satiean quirk to Feldman-esque pensiveness. It’s all inviting music, without any of that tired stoic overreach that haunts so many contemporary compositions.
Most people don’t know what BC music is like, how when it’s properly performed it whiffs of cedar, ocean mist and rainwater, with long slow arabesques wavering the way healthy boughs do in an evening breeze...
“Delicate Fires” illuminates an important and refreshing aspect of our national sound that begs multiple hearings."
- John Keillor, WholeNote
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