Rather going off piste here. None of my usual electronics but a drawling indie rock from Gresham Cash and the melancholic trumpet from Argentina’s Denise Cianfaga on Helen.
Gresham Cash is an Athens, GA musician, composer, and writer with a background in wildlife biology. His work has mainly been in indie rock. But Helen is the first single from Cash’s forthcoming album Director E, Vol. 1. The album is a compilation of tracks that Cash composed, performed, and produced in the last 8 years working as a composer for Atlanta-based filmmaker Ethan Payne. This is more widescreen and plaintive than his earlier work.
Helen is a mix of the ineffably sad trumpet mixed with some low key post rock. It verges on the Ambient in its delicacy and refusal to rise above a murmur. But it’s the trumpet that really makes this track stand out. It has a slow jazz feel but also a funeral elegy quality. A sort of post rock Last Post.
Hardly the stuff of Happy Christmases but beautiful sadness.