“The minutest vibrations are as expressive as the most sweeping gesture…
Star Core’s mood exquisitely balances melancholy and hope… 7.8”
“The astral elegance of Alice Coltrane’s most sacred works and buttressing her compositions with sonorous Charlie Haden–like bass. The result is one of the best albums you’ll hear this year.”
“She blends synth, violin, flute and bass with her own whispered vocal passages for state of calm that dips into cosmic territory, bending drones into subtle shape… an absolute stunner.”
“Put it all together, and you have a unified field of sound and vision.”
— Dusted
“A meditative amalgam of grounding strings and mirage-like shimmers…”
— The Fader
“Deeply moving and meditative synth and organic drones”
— Mojo
“What Marielle has replicated… is the exuberance of nature, the subtle, superabundance of the given thing itself.”
— Tiny Mix Tapes
“Jakobsons shows herself to be an exceptionally skillful sound sculptor, someone who knows the value of patience and control and how to derive maximum impact from a restricted number of sound elements…
As a result, the alien pulsations of the synthesizers and the neo-classical elegance of the bowed violin combine to produce an hypnotic result that’s both ethereal and earthy.”
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