A poignant mix of chamber music and drone set to an ocean of emotional energies, “Until Margaretha” is a standout from Funeral Folks, a current collaboration by Swedish experimental artists Maria W Horn, on synths and pipe organ, and violinist Sara Parkman. The opening shimmer of acoustic instrumentation right here evokes earlier, side-stream traditionalists — specifically the spellbinding music of early-’70s U.Okay. group Comus — at the least till Horn and Parkman set the cathedral ablaze with a blast of metallic drone, peeling away the steeples and revealing the pair’s true intentions by means of a vortex of cascading vocals, strings and keyboards.
With “Until Margaretha” and Funeral Folks in complete, the pair generate music born from lamentation and rites of loss. Like their friends Kali Malone and Anna von Hausswolff, the Horn and Parkman are fearless in making grandiose, susceptible music.
