Kara-Lis Coverdale has announced plans for new album ‘From Where You Came’.
The new album is the composer’s first in eight years, and it adds fresh weight to a very special catalogue. An artist equally adept at operating in analogue and digital realms, her incoming album moves between 19th century programmatic music and mid 70s jazz, bonded by her unique, colourful aesthetic voice.
The material was written and recorded on several continents, including at the GRM Studio in Paris and the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm; in the end, however, ‘From Where You Came’ was completed in rural Ontario, Canada.
From the wintery scenes on the cover to the frosted tones, there’s a sense of mid-winter contemplation at work in Kara-Lis’ work.
The new album lands on May 9th via Smalltown Supersound, and it utilises contributions from multi-disciplinary sound artist and cellist Anne Bourne and GRAMMY award-winning trombone prodigy Kalia Vandever.
The material moves from opaque electronics to breathy woodwind, with the composer unearthing the human in thoroughly inhuman landscapes. “Anything can have a voice,” says Coverdale. “For me, voice is beyond human”.
New piece ‘Daze’ is out now – pensive and meditative, it’s an evocative primer for the album as a whole.
Tune in now.
Tracklist:
1. Eternity
2. Flickers in the Air of Night
3. The Placid Illusion
4. Daze
5. Coming Around
6. Problem of No Name
7. Freedom
8. Offroad Flip
9. Habitat
10. Equal Exchange
11. The Ceremonial Entrance of Colour
Photo Credit: Norman Wong
