DRAWING RESTRAINT 9

"A return to instrumentation after her last, vocals-only album, "Medulla", Drawing Restraint 9 nonetheless glistens with strange textures - throat singing, Noh vocal performance and sho, a Japanese instrument with 17 reeds and 15 pipes (the film is set on a Japanese whaling vessel). The most conventional piece is opening track Gratitude, in which Will Oldham sings the text of a letter to General MacArthur in thanks for the lifting of the US moratorium on whaling over shimmers of harp and celeste."