“Gail Priest is a Sydney-based sound artist interested in releasing the hidden melodies and broken beats found in raw sonic material…. After misguided excursions in the 90s of the neo-folk singer/songwriter variety, she embraced laptoppery in 2001 and since then has performed at experimental music events and festivals in Australia.
“Gail also writes soundscores for contemporary performance, dance and video art for a range of collaborators.”
She has one hell of a CV, to which she has just added Presentiments from the Spider Garden. Stream it just below. It is every bit as brainy as the title lets on, a place where processed field recordings; gentle, spooky compositions; digitally-pulverized vocals and friendly traces of noise all bump shoulders with relatively conventional fare (in spite of its oddball, Poesque title, “The Araneological Calendar of M. Quatremer d’Isgonval” is fairly straight-up electronica). This is a deeply rewarding album, but you might need a listen or two first, to map out these rugged terrains.
Buy it at the Bandcamp page, or learn more at the links below.
