Cellist Okkyung Lee is best known for her visceral attack and extended techniques, which can be heard on past albums such as
Ghil. On
Yeo-Neun, she embraces the delicacy of chamber music, leading a quartet including Maeve Gilchrist (harp), Elvind Opsvik (bass) and Jacob Sacks (piano). Lee has not lost her experimental edge - she can bend the cello to her will in such a manner that sometimes it's impossible not to focus on her. However, even though she composed the entire album,
Yeo-Neun is never solely about Lee. Each tune puts the onus on the quartet as a whole.
