Jean-Loup Pinson releases "A Moment of Deathlessness," an innovative EP that combines Emily Dickinson's poetry with choral harmonies, electronic textures, and hip-hop lyricism. Now out on all streaming services, this three-song, 10-minute sonic tour is genre-defying, a mood piece of deep resonance about mortality, longing, and transcendence.
A visionary in modern composition, Pinson teams with The Carice Singers and rappers Armanious and Tanaka Fuego to rebirth Dickinson's unending words through the lens of contemporary music. From its opening moments, the otherworldly choral arrangements set an ethereal, almost sacred mood that allows Dickinson's meditative verses to unfold with a newly intense breath.
As they go on, Armanious and Tanaka Fuego add rough and powerful spoken-word passages, weaving together Dickinson's 19th-century reflections on life and death and the urban narratives of today. Their heartrending delivery peppers the poetry with an urgency at once deeply personal and universally resonant.
You will especially feel the dual power of standout tracks such as "I'm Afraid to Own a Body" and "Wild Nights Desire" and Pinson's deft production choices, which raise Dickinson's themes through pulsing electronic beats and epic cinematic tableaux. His film composition background shows, creating a lush auditory experience that stays with you well past the end of the final note.
In "A Moment of Deathlessness," Jean-Loup Pinson shows that music and poetry can blend marvelously, rendering the past anew. This EP is more than an auditory experience. It's an artistic awakening.