![]() ![]() The album opens with a 23-minute title track of virtual keyboards, violins, a string trio ( Trio Cavalazzi) and horns. There’s definitely something otherworldly about transmitting emails back and forth across two languages and international borders that helps to explain the seven ethereal songs on Under an Endless Sky. Not seeing or hearing each other keeps it very, very pure, very elevated. ![]() “I think there’s something that contaminates when you see people on Zoom and they’re in their pajamas. “It’s part of the aesthetic, as far as I’m concerned,” says Moskowitz of her preference for collaboration over email. The team worked back and forth via email, with most of Ferrari’s lines passing through Google translate before Moskowitz refined the words and phrases in English and set it all to melodies. Imagine Marianne Faithfull working with minimalist composer John Adams and you can begin to grok the shape of this lovely, sometimes eerie music. Moskowitz’s voice sits delicately over the electro-acoustic compositions, singing evocative lines that originated in Italian (Ferrari is a poet). On March 17, her latest effort, Under an Endless Sky, a collaboration with Paladino and the poet Luca Chino Ferrari under the name The United States of Alchemy, comes out on Tompkins Square records. Over the intervening years, Moskowitz has toured with Country Joe’s All Star Band, written original pieces for children’s musical theater, taught music and maintained her own recording practice out of her Bay Area home studio. She was the lead vocalist for the experimental rock band The United States of America, which put out one eponymous album in 1968 and disbanded shortly after. Now 82, Moskowitz has been involved in composing, recording and performing music for over seven decades. “I was astounded at how much chaos and mischief there was,” she says. ![]() When Dorothy Moskowitz first listened to work by the Italian composer Francesco Paolo Paladino, she heard something in his music that reminded her of the sound pieces of her youth. ![]()
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