Kali Malone // All Life Long 2xLP / CD

スウェーデン・ストックホルムのドローン作家Kali Maloneが、2024年1月にフランスの実験レーベルPortraits GRMからリリースしたアルバムです。

オルガンや声、金管楽器によるドローン〜アンビエントドローン12曲を収録。ブックレット付属。

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Available on 2x12" black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with 8pp booklet (edition of 4000), or CD in 6-panel digisleeve with 20pp booklet (edition of 2500). 

Tracklist:

1. Passage Through the Spheres 06:48
2. All Life Long (for organ) 08:38
3. No Sun to Burn (for brass) 03:12
4. Prisoned on Watery Shore
5. Retrograde Canon
6. Slow of Faith
7. Fastened Maze
8. No Sun To Burn (for Organ)
9. All Life Long (for voice)
10. Moving Forward
11. Formation Flight
12. The Unification of Inner & Outer Life

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Ideologic Organ:

"Kali Malone's anticipated new album "All Life Long" is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet composed by Kali Malone, 2020 - 2023. Choral music performed by Macadam Ensemble and conducted by Etienne Ferschaud at Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-L'Immaculée-Conception in Nantes. Brass quintet music performed by Anima Brass at The Bunker Studio in New York City. Organ music performed by Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley on the historical meantone tempered pipe organs at Église Saint-François in Lausanne, Orgelpark in Amsterdam, and Malmö Konstmuseum in Sweden.

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Malone’s new album All Life Long, created between 2020 - 2023, presents her first compositions for organ since 2019’s breakthrough album The Sacrificial Code alongside interrelated pieces for voice and brass performed by Macadam Ensemble and Anima Brass. Over the course of twelve pieces, harmonic themes and patterns recur, presented in altered forms and for varied instrumentation. They emerge and reemerge like echoes of their former selves, making the familiar uncanny. Propelled by lungs and breath rather than bellows and oscillators, Malone’s compositions for choir and brass take on expressive qualities that complicate the austerity that has defined her work, introducing lyricism and the beauty of human fallibility into music that has been driven by mechanical processes. At the same time, the works for organ, performed by Malone with additional accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley on four different organs dating from the 15th to 17th centuries, underscore the mighty, spectral power that those rigorous operations can achieve.

All Life Long simmers in an ever-shifting tension between repetition and variation. The pieces for brass, organ, and voice are alternated asymmetrically, providing nearly continuous timbral fluctuation across its 78-minute runtime even as thematic material reiterates. Each composition’s internal framework of fractal pattern permutations has the paradoxical effect of creating anticipated keystone moments of dramatic reverie and lulling the listener into believing in an illusory endlessness. On an even more granular level, the historical meantone tuning systems of each organ used, and the variable intonation of brass and voice, provide further points of emotional excavation within the harmony[...]"

Artist : Kali Malone

Label : Ideologic Organ