CD: Maya Beiser, 'Salt'

Artists: Maya beiser, cello

Released on Islandia music, 2025

“There's a moment in the story of Lot's Wife that has haunted me for years,” says Maya Beiser. “It's not the turning to salt—it's the turning to look. That instinctual, human act of looking back at what you love, even as it's being destroyed. That moment holds everything: memory, defiance, tenderness—and the impossible cost of remembering.”

This album weaves together a collection works that meditate on themes such as remembrance, resistance, and reflection. Missy Mazzoli's Salt is a mini-opera with Lot's Wife speaking from her 'salted jail' to the future.” and Clarice Jensen’s Salt Air, Salt Earth evokes a sonic landscape. Maya describes this piece as, “playing through sediment—layers of ancient sound and sensation, buried but not gone.”

The cover and inside artwork was used generated elements that were re-worked and re-crafted as a digital collage.