View basket “Yellow Kitchen” has been added to your basket. 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 Ash Koosha I Aka I Leftfield / Experimental | Ninja Tune | 1LP Released 4th June 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ash Koosha I Aka I £16.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN228 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cid Rim Songs Of Vienna Leftfield / Experimental | Lucky Me | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th October 2021 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cid Rim Songs Of Vienna £17.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Lucky Me SKU: LM075LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Necks, The Travel Jazz | Northern Spy | 2LP Released 24th February 2023 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Necks, The Travel £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Northern Spy SKU: LPNS158 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Terry Riley Descending Moonshine Dervishes Leftfield / Experimental | Beacon Sound | 1LP Released 9th August 2024 £24.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Riley Descending Moonshine Dervishes £24.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Beacon Sound SKU: BNSD017 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th August 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chrome Third From The Sun Leftfield / Experimental | Lilith | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 4th December 2010 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chrome Third From The Sun £17.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Lilith SKU: LR318 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 4th December 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christopher Brett Bailey This Is How We Die Leftfield / Experimental | Pastel Heck | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th January 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christopher Brett Bailey This Is How We Die £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Pastel Heck SKU: PASTELHECK001 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Henry Cow Unrest Leftfield / Experimental | ReR | 180g, 1LP Released 8th December 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Henry Cow Unrest £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: ReR SKU: RERVHC2LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Videodrones Mondo Ferox Leftfield / Experimental | El Paraiso | 1LP Released 7th October 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Videodrones Mondo Ferox £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: El Paraiso SKU: EPR036LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Nace Through a Room Leftfield / Experimental | Drag City | 1LP Released 11th November 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Nace Through a Room £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Drag City SKU: DC852 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hakushi Hasegawa Somoku Hodo Leftfield / Experimental | Brainfeeder | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 8th March 2024 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hakushi Hasegawa Somoku Hodo £26.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Brainfeeder SKU: BF137 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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