Maya Beiser - Salt (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

A genre-defying new album, Salt unfolds as a ritual in movement—a sonic pilgrimage through loss, memory, resistance, and return. The album begins in stillness, in the suspended breath of a woman turning to look back, and from that moment it travels across centuries and sonic landscapes, carrying fragments of Baroque hymns, sacred chants, and contemporary lamentation.

With contributions from an extraordinary roster of collaborators—composer Missy Mazzoli, librettist Erin Cressida Wilson, composer-performers Clarice Jensen and Meredith Monk, vocalist Helga Davis and Odeya Nini— Beiser reimagines works by Monteverdi, Purcell, and Gluck alongside the original compositions, creating a soundscape that feels both ancient and urgently present.

Beiser’s cello, layered into cathedral-like resonance, becomes a kind of geological instrument—textured, weathered, elemental. In Salt, beauty becomes a fulcrum—balancing the longing for what might have been against the weight of what is. Past and present collapse into one resonant cry, exposing the quiet devastation of human choices.

Maya Beiser, cello, electronics
Helga Davis, vocals (tracks 1-5)
Odeya Nini, vocals (track 11)

Tracklist:
01. Mazzoli- Salt 1 (original)
02. Mazzoli- Salt 2 (original)
03. Mazzoli- Salt 3 (original)
04. Mazzoli- Salt 4 (original)
05. Mazzoli- Salt 5 (original)
06. Tavener- Lament To Phaedra (original)
07. Monk- Hocket (original)
08. Gluck- Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice (original)
09. Jensen- Salt Air, Salt Earth (original)
10. Monteverdi- Lamento d’Arianna (original)
11. Admon- Shedemati (original)
12. Purcell- When I am Laid in Earth (original)


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