Corpus (from Corps Exquis) (2012)

Aided by Julia Holter's vaporous vocalise, "Corpus" floats in crepuscular world where electronic and acoustic instruments dwell in fearless equilibrium.

"Corpus" — the final track from Paris-born, New York City-based composer-performer Daniel Wohl's debut album, Corps Exquis — unfurls with a sense of slow-motion, feline inevitability. A haze of violin, cello, bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone and muted electronics enshroud ethereal, nearly imperceptible vocals from Julia Holter… "Corpus" is both a glimpse of something elusive and a confession of something lost; its compact melodic gestures unfold with the lyricism of calligraphy, while its diaphanous harmonies somehow transport, unsettle and delight all at once.