Video of the Day: Paula Rae Gibson previews songs from new album, The Roles We Play To Disappear

Multi-talented singer/visual artist Paula Rae Gibson’s latest album, The Roles We Play To Disappear, is an immersive work that mixes experimental songs, ambient electronica and avant-jazz produced/performed with electronic musician and trumpeter Alex Bonney and award-winning composer Kit Downes, due for general release (CD / DL) on 1 November via label, 33 Xtreme.

Following Loving In Real Time, Gibson returns with a similarly stark song cycle – featuring additional contributions from Rob Luft (guitar) and Matthew Bourne (piano, cello and synth) – exploring some of the darker facets of commitment to a relationship including breakdown, entrapment.

There are reminders of Portishead, of Annette Peacock in the way that she navigates the shadows and waves of the electronic/instrumental backdrop but also of Blemish era David Sylvian. Elsewhere, Luft’s guitars have the plangent quality of Bill Frisell’s on Paths, Prints, Kit Downes’ cello, emanates from a similar suspension to Arthur Russell’s World Of Echo, and Alex Bonney's trumpets resound and chatter with frantic luminosity in the darkness, a la Mongezi Feza or Don Cherry. The insistent electronics and beats, add a sense of emotional urgency amid the stillness, hovering with all the indifference of a cold universe to our individual fates.

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