Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Affliction (Improvisation)

STREAM TRACK: PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP (name your price): Affliction originated as an improvisation which was pre-recorded for a live-streamed performance of the song Contaminate Me by Leprous in Notodden, December 2020. This solo was the only take I recorded for the stream and it occurred to me upon listening to the isolated cello track that it could stand alone as an independent piece. Affliction is a grief-stricken lamentation embodied by a raw and vulnerable solo cello performance - a lone voice crying out within a cavernous abyss. Performed on amplified acoustic cello by Raphael Weinroth-Browne Engineered and mixed by Dean Watson at The Workshop in Luskville, QC Video by Andrew Robillard Raphael plays a 2012 cello by Raymond Schryer and uses Schatten Pickups, Orange Amplifiers, and Neumann microphones. Raphael’s projec