Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness (2025)

Clarice Jensen releases her fourth solo album, In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness, on 17 October 2025 via FatCat Records’ 130701 imprint. The new album showcases Jensen’s distinctive compositional approach, in which she improvises and layers her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects, exploring a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of color, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity.

Having made a solo move to the Berkshire Mountains in upstate New York in September 2020 after many years living in Brooklyn, Jensen found herself confronting and enjoying a newfound solitude as the non-stop movement and collaboration of city life as a musician had come to a standstill. The first LP she made post-move – Esthesis, released on 130701 in 2022 – is largely devoid of cello, synth heavy, and examines emotions in a self-conscious way from an isolated point of view that is nearly one-dimensional.

Jensen sets new parameters for In holiday clothing, placing the acoustic sound of the cello at the fore, and affecting the sound only through a few effects (octave displacement, delay, tremolo and looping).

TRACKLIST

1. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness – Part 1
2. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: From A to B
3. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: 2,1
4. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: 1,2
5. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness – Part 2
6. Clarice Jensen - Jensen: Unity