Eve Essex: Here Appear
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- Cassette, Soap Library, 2018
- LP, Sky Walking, 2018
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Here Appear is an invocation, a salutation, and a celebration — of past and perfect lives, forgotten and remembered, exchanged and borrowed. Eve Essex’s solo debut is a multi-instrumental fea(s)t combining synthesizer, drum machine, alto saxophone, piccolo, electric organ/harpsichord, harmonica, slide whistle, bells, guitar pedals, and voice— composed, arranged, and performed by Essex herself. What began as an improv set at Berlin’s Harlekin bar developed, over the past two years, into a complete body of work evoking multiple time periods, genres, characters, and sonic landscapes.
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A genuinely startling record that locks you into her world and imagination with the immediacy of an intimate performance... You’d be best advised to follow wherever she goes next.
— Eve Essex: Here Appear reviewed by Neil Kulkarni in The Wire, Jun 2018Music that continually surprises.
— Hi Bias: Notable Cassette Releases by Marc Masters in Bandcamp Daily, Mar 2018Eve Essex is making some powerful new minimalism, right at the crossroads of improv and meditative songwriting.
— Eve Essex: Here Appear reviewed by Tristan Bath in The Quietus, Mar 2018Vividly tactile electroacoustic instrumentals and heady, literate songs.
— Eve Essex interviewed by Steve Smith in National Sawdust Log, Mar 2018