Underroot

Dark instrumental, Modern neoclassical with a folk backbone, A felt-hammer piano, close-miked so you hear the felt and pedal, plays a strong modal tune in natural minor — memorable, grave, phrases uneven and lilting so bars never quite square up, A solo fiddle answers each phrase, rough-toned, slightly sour intonation, A low cello drone holds the tonic under everything and never moves, so every melody note is measured against it, Pizzicato bass, Strings accrete in waves; the tune passes piano to fiddle to full ensemble, gaining weight and lower register each pass, Faint granular electronic bed, subliminal, One large crest two-thirds through — heavier, lower, more crowded, not brighter — then strip to solo piano over the drone, Earthen, grave, hollow, Real-room reverb, ~84 BPM