Album Info Hide Show Artist: Kali Malone Album: All Life Long Gatefold: Yes Released: France, 9 Feb 2024 Tracklist: A1 Passage Through The Spheres 6:48 A2 All Life Long (For Organ) 8:38 A2 No Sun To Burn (For Brass) 3:12 B1 Prisoned On Watery Shore 7:37 B2 Retrograde Canon 4:16 B3 Slow Of Faith 4:36 C1 Fastened Maze 11:21 C2 No Sun To Burn (For Organ) 10:01 D1 All Life Long (For Voice) 3:13 D2 Moving Forward 6:12 D3 Formation Flight 2:38 D4 The Unification Of Inner & Outer Life 9:35 Related Content: Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. 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Organ music performed by Kali Malone and Stephen OMalley on the historical meantone tempered pipe organs at glise Saint-Franois in Lausanne, Orgelpark in Amsterdam, and Malm Konstmuseum in Sweden. Kali Malone composes with a rare clarity of vision. Her music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances. Time is a crucial factor: letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a chance to find a space of reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods become portals to new ways of perceiving sound, structure, and introspection. Though awe-inspiring in scope, the most remarkable thing about Malones music is the intimacy stirred by the close listening it encourages. Malones new album All Life Long, created between 2020-2023, presents her first compositions for organ since 2019s 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, Malones 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 OMalley 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 compositions 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. The titular composition All Life Long appears twice on the album, first as an extended canon for organ and again in the final quarter, compactly arranged for voice. In the latter, Malone pairs the music with The Crying Water by Arthur Symons, a poem steeped in language of mourning and eternity. For organ, All Life Long moves with a patient stateliness, the drama concentrated in moments when shifting tonalities generate and release dissonance and ecstasy. For voice, each word is saturated with feeling, the singers swooping gracefully downward to capture the melancholy of the narrators relationship to the timeless tears of the sea. Passage Through The Spheres, the albums opening piece, contains lyrics in Italian pulled from Giorgio Agambans essay In Praise of Profanation. In it, Agamban defines profanation as, in part, the act of bringing back to communal, secular use that which has been segregated to the realm of the sacred, a process Malone enacts each time she performs on church organs. This is not music of praise, or of spiritual revelation, but it is an artistic enactment of translating the indescribable. It carries the gravity of liturgical chant, and its fixation on the infinite, but draws its weight from the earthly realm of human experience. A music that draws the listener into the present moment where they can discover themselves within the interwoven musical patterns that can come to resemble the passage of days, weeks, years, a lifetime. The music of All Life Long will be performed as a whole in major concert halls and venues in Europe in 2024. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review