Sarah Davachi – Figures In Open Air

Description

Format: 2CD
Catalogue No.: LMIICD
Barcode: 5060384619453
Release Date: 6th November 2020
Genre: Ambient

 A supplement to the new studio album ‘Cantus, Descant’, Sarah Davachi offers almost three hours of live recordings and variations. Featuring performances for pipe organ and solo electronics while on tour at Roter Salon in Berlin, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in Chicago, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, Église du Gesù in Montreal and the Lab in San Francisco, from 2018 – 19.
 As a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, Sarah Davachi’s work is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena and temperament and intonation.
 Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.
 Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA – where she works on the aesthetic phenomenology of musical instruments and timbre in popular, experimental, and early music – and is based in Los Angeles, California.
 Two CD set housed in a 4-panel gatefold lancing pack, released on the artist’s own new label, Late Music.
 Praise for ‘Cantus, Descant’:
 “A masterful double album laced with singular artistry, palpable intention and innovation. The glorious soundsuite of Cantus, Descant is a comfort amid so much uncertainty, a balm for the head and heart” – Uncut (full page lead review)
 “‘Cantus, Descant’ is accessible without ever feeling thoughtless, plays to Davachi’s sonic strengths, and provides just enough experimentation and variety to justify its daunting running time. It’s a journey worth taking.” – Exclaim! (8/10)
 “‘Cantus, Descant’ is an album that functions as meditative background music, but turn it up and it becomes an unignorable study in sound.” – The Guardian (Contemporary Album Of The Month)
 “The minimalist composer-performer’s slow, patient works demand and reward close attention; give them time, and their secrets will rise slowly to the surface.” – Pitchfork
 “An extraordinary 80-minute concept album concerning the relationship in early music between the single voice and polyphonic structures” – Mojo

Tracklisting:
Disc One
Live In Berlin
Ruminant (version)
Live in San Francisco
(excerpt)

Disc Two:
Live in Chicago
Canyon Walls
(instrumental)
Diaphonia Basilica
(version)