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If one were a highly dogmatic person, one might feel tempted to believe that what the American composer and harpist Zeena Parkins did to her instrument was not the original intention.The harp is part of a mythological realm where it is associated with eternal beauty and heavenly splendor. And if there is one thing Zeena Parkins’ music does not strive to be, it is beautiful in that lukewarm way. On the contrary, one could argue that it consistently endeavors not to be seductively beautiful, but as one of its redeeming elements, it cannot avoid being so nonetheless, at least not all the time.
