Kali MALONE
“The Sacrificial Code”
34,50€
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Kali Malone presents a quietly subversive new album featuring almost two hours of concentrated, creeping organ pieces governed by a strict acoustic and compositional code. It’s a major new work with ultimately profound emotional resonance.
‘The Sacrificial Code’ takes a more detailed approach to ideas first sketched out on last year’s ‘Organ Dirges’, which featured canon exercises spontaneously captured without much prior technical planning. By contrast, the recording of ‘The Sacrificial Code’ involved the more careful micing up of several organs in such a way as to eliminate acoustic impurities as far as possible – essentially removing the large hall reverb so inextricably linked to the instrument. The pieces were then performed free of gestural adornments and without expressive impulse – an approach that flows against the grain of the prevailing musical hegemony, where sound is so often manipulated, and composition often steeped in self indulgence. The question posed; can this strict methodology still speak to the listener in meaningful terms?
The answer is both obvious and entirely surprising; with its slow, purified and seemingly austere qualities ‘The Sacrificial Code’ guides us through an almost trance-inducing process where we become vulnerable receptors for every slight movement, where every miniature shift in sound becomes magnified through stillness.
As such, it’s a uniquely satisfying exercise in transcendence through self restraint – a stunning realisation of ideas borne out of academic and conceptual rigour which gradually reveals startling personal dimensions. It has a perception-altering quality that encourages self exploration free of signposts and without a preordained endpoint – the antithesis to the language of colourless musical platitudes weíve become so accustomed to.
Limited 2LP repress.
Née en 1994, la musicienne américaine Kali Malone vit et travaille en Suède où elle explore depuis plusieurs années les possibilités sonores offertes par l’électronique mais également par la richesse de certains instruments acoustiques tels que l’orgue.
The Sacrificial Code, son dernier disque en date, est, justement, une œuvre pour orgue – ou, plus précisément, pour plusieurs orgues. La composition confine à l’austérité et s’appuie sur une méthode particulièrement rigoureuse ainsi que sur un travail d’enregistrement attentif. Ce qui frappe dans le résultat c’est la manière dont la réverbération, souvent inhérente à l’instrument, a été presque gommée pour ne laisser que de moelleuses sonorités mates, des accords doux et lents, qui se déploient finalement peu, et qui distillent une impression de calme sans être trop sédatifs pour autant.
A distance d’un certain formalisme académique, que l’on aurait pu craindre, on entend un ensemble de pièces tout à la fois singulier et apaisant, un univers de sons lents et doux qui requiert de façon plaisante l’attention de l’auditeur et le laisse dans une atmosphère introspective et délicatement automnale.
Réédition 2LP, tirage limité.
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