All Life Long Kali Malone SKU: SOMA055LP Barcode: 0647581407820 33.00 £33.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Ideologic Organ Released Date: 9th February 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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. 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 Malone’s music is the intimacy stirred by the close listening it encourages. 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. 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 narrator’s relationship to the timeless tears of the sea. “Passage Through The Spheres,” the album’s opening piece, contains lyrics in Italian pulled from Giorgio Agamban’s 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. Artist Kali Malone Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Ideologic Organ Buying Options 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Passage Through The Spheres All Life Long (for organ) No Sun To Burn (for brass) Prisoned On Watery Shore Retrograde Canon Slow of Faith Fastened Maze No Sun To Burn (for organ) All Life Long (for voice) Moving Forward Formation Flight The Unification of Inner & Outer Life Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble Entourage Leftfield / Experimental | Folkways | 1LP, Includes Insert Released 25th June 2012 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble Entourage £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Folkways SKU: FW33866LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 25th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View tetema Geocidal Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Ipecac | 1LP Released 16th February 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders tetema Geocidal £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Ipecac SKU: IPC167LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View William Cashion Postcard Music Leftfield / Experimental | Famous Class | 1LP Released 17th July 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Cashion Postcard Music £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Famous Class SKU: FC054LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Seahawks & Woo Celestial Rairoads Leftfield / Experimental | Ocean Moon/Emotional Response | 1LP Released 25th October 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Seahawks & Woo Celestial Rairoads £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Ocean Moon/Emotional Response SKU: OM24LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Faust 71 Minutes Leftfield / Experimental | ReR | 180g, 2LP Released 8th December 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Faust 71 Minutes £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: ReR SKU: RERVF1DLP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jungstötter One Star Leftfield / Experimental | PIAS | 1LP Released 28th April 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jungstötter One Star £21.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: PIAS SKU: PIASD5075LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View T Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose, Keefus Ciancia The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space Leftfield / Experimental | Verve Forecast | 2LP Released 12th April 2019 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders T Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose, Keefus Ciancia The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space £29.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Verve Forecast SKU: 7734533 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 12th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Requiem For A World After Electronica | 1LP Released 11th January 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Requiem For A World After £22.00 Genre: Electronica SKU: MENT009 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Domingæ Æ Leftfield / Experimental | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th October 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Domingæ Æ £20.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR275LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Barry Adamson, Pan Sonic & The Hafler Trio The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion Leftfield / Experimental | Cold Spring Records | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th December 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Barry Adamson, Pan Sonic & The Hafler Trio The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion £21.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Cold Spring Records SKU: CSR241LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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