Beverly Glenn-Copeland

★★★★ Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP

Next phase in the rediscovery of a composer’s 1986 record.

Once lost, now very much found, Beverly GlennCopeland’s 1986 album

Keyboard Fantasies occupied a bright new place in the world on its 2016 reissue. This collection of remixes and reworkings crystallises some of the links made by its new age synthesizers and ancient folk warmth, with Bon Iver, Flock Of Dimes and Blood Orange among the artists rewiring the Canadabased composer’s work. Most radically, Julia Holter gently teases apart Winter Astral fibre by fibre, retitling it Fastest Star and adding words and a spray of Loveless noise, while Arca’s version of Let Us Dance x-rays the clear-eyed, courageous original to pick up underlying stress and strain. Kelsey Lu, meanwhile, brings out the magic of Glenn-Copeland’s cradle-side vocals on Ever New. Despite its fragile origins out on the margins, Keyboard

Fantasies stands up well to being reimagined, further testament to its inner strengths.