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Ray. The London-based multi-instrumentalist's latest collection of delightful oddities features her newly formed trio with Yoni Silver (bass clarinet) and Otto Willberg (double bass). A sense of patched-togetherness permeates this lockdown suite, while feeling, still, uncannily cohesive. It’s hard to believe that Ray – an album whose organic texture recalls the closeness of an intimate venue – was assembled remotely, once more proving proximity overrated. Paul’s sparse aesthetics of heavily deconstructed drawn-out melodies, focusing on the space in-between, stretch the definition of a song. Whilst never breaking completely out of form, her delicately balanced compositions follow a subtly erratic formula, ever informed by the spirit of free improvisation. It is a holistic and earnest snapshot of the process of creation, intimately linked to destruction, and their sacred and macabre dance. Paul respects the music’s deep tie to the wellbeing of the body and mind through feeling, creating the most serenely humane space, with the tender core carefully enveloped in the fiercly challenging outer layer.