Kara-Lis Coverdale From Where You Came Clear Vinyl Edition

A dynamic and sublime work rich in emotion and sensitivity, From Where You Cameunspools as a series of nocturnal transmissions, altered-state refinements, and vividstories, rich in vibrant, illuminating qualities. Drawing together 19th centuryprogrammatic music, mid-'70s jazz, and her distinctively colourful and multi-dimensionalapproach to composition that embraces improvisation, Coverdale alloys synthesis withlive instrumentation in a genreless yet distinctly identifiable gesture of reconnection withland and body through sound. Approaching composition as a diagnostic methodology tospiritual ends, she conducts emotional resonance like currents of charge, hard-wiringthe purely felt into electronic signals.Though written and recorded on several continents, including at the GRM Studio inParis and the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, From Where You Came wascompleted in rural Ontario, Canada. Featuring contributions from multidisciplinary soundartist and cellist Anne Bourne and Grammy award winning trombone prodigy KaliaVandever, the album's 11 expansive yet condensed compositions incorporate strings,woodwind, brass, keys, software and modular synthesis, inscribing a musical languagethat resonates animations with unfiltered, striking clarity. "Anything can have a voice,"says Coverdale. "For me, voice is beyond human." Fittingly, it's the artist's own voicethat melts into air amidst the enveloping swell of the album's opening prelude:"Everything you know is real," she sings on "Eternity," "I'm sorry, life is beautiful_ ." Asthough in response, oscillating vividly between animism and animalism, the album thatfollows is absolutely brimming with life in all its stunning complexity.Reckoning with the experience of grief, dislocation, and the pressure of total freedomand independence, Coverdale yields supernatural capacity to transfer tribulation intohighly imaginative and inspiring fantasy epics of sound. In the piloted flight of "Daze,"wind choruses dance and twirl...