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SARAH DAVACHI

Sarah Davachi & Quatuor Bozzini

Long Gradus

    A new longform commissioned work released on the artist’s own Late Music label. String quartet version available as a 2LP and CD, or four different instrumental variations presented as the Long Gradus: Arrangements 4CD boxset.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Long Gradus (strings): Part I
    2. Long Gradus (strings): Part 2
    3. Long Gradus (strings): Part 3
    4. Long Gradus (strings): Part 4

    Sarah Davachi

    Long Gradus: Arrangements

      A new longform commissioned work released on the artist’s own Late Music label. String quartet version available as a 2LP and CD, or four different instrumental variations presented as the Long Gradus: Arrangements 4CD boxset.

      TRACK LISTING

      DISC ONE Tracklist:
      Long Gradus Strings
      Quatuor Bozzini
      1. Long Gradus (strings): Part 1
      2. Long Gradus (strings): Part 2
      3. Long Gradus (strings): Part 3
      4. Long Gradus (strings): Part 4

      DISC TWO Tracklist:
      Long Gradus Woodwinds
      Rebecca Lane & Samara Dunscombe
      1. Long Gradus (woodwinds): Part 1
      2. Long Gradus (woodwinds): Part 2
      3. Long Gradus (woodwinds): Part 3
      4. Long Gradus (woodwinds): Part 4

      DISC THREE Tracklist:
      Long Gradus Brass & Organ
      Sarah Davachi & Rage Thormbones
      1. Long Gradus (brass & Organ): Part 1
      2. Long Gradus (brass & Organ): Part 2
      3. Long Gradus (brass & Organ): Part 3
      4. Long Gradus (brass & Organ): Part 4

      DISC FOUR Tracklist:
      Long Gradus Choir & Electronics
      Sarah Davachi & Judith Berkson
      1. Long Gradus (choir & Electronics): Part 1
      2. Long Gradus (choir & Electronics): Part 2
      3. Long Gradus (choir & Electronics): Part 3
      4. Long Gradus (choir & Electronics): Part 4

      Sarah Davachi

      Selected Works I & II

        Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the first and second volumes in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased on the vinyl format.

        Featuring (way) back catalogue material from various CDs, cassettes and EPs, singles and original film scores, as well as miscellaneous live and studio recordings.

        TRACK LISTING

        Disc 1
        Alms Vert
        In The Grand Luxe Hall (Excerpt)
        In The Littlefield Choir Loft (Excerpt)
        Gathers IV

        Disc 2
        First Triad
        A Woman Escapes Cue 4
        Neustadt
        Composition Of Flowers (Excerpt)
        Olsun
        Gathers VI

        Sarah Davachi

        Selected Works I

          Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the first volume in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased on the vinyl format.

          Featuring (way) back catalogue material from various CDs, cassettes and EPs, singles and original film scores, as well as miscellaneous live and studio recordings.

          TRACK LISTING

          Alms Vert
          In The Grand Luxe Hall (Excerpt)
          In The Littlefield Choir Loft (Excerpt)
          Gathers IV

          Sarah Davachi

          Selected Works II

            Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the second volume in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased on the vinyl format.

            Featuring (way) back catalogue material from various CDs, cassettes and EPs, singles and original film scores, as well as miscellaneous live and studio recordings.

            TRACK LISTING

            First Triad
            A Woman Escapes Cue 4
            Neustadt
            Composition Of Flowers (Excerpt)
            Olsun
            Gathers VI

            Sarah Davachi

            In Concert & In Residence

              A supplement to ‘Two Sisters’, Sarah Davachi offers a series of live chamber ensemble recordings and instrumentals collected while in residence at the National Music Centre.

              Featuring commissioned works ‘In The Grand Luxe Hall’ (2016) and ‘Stile Vuoto’ (2018), variations and unreleased live recordings of the ‘Harmonies’ series for organ, and solo performances with electronic instruments such as the Hammond B3 and Hammond Novachord.

              TRACK LISTING

              CD1
              In The Grand Luxe Hall
              Stile Vuoto
              Harmonies In Grey

              CD2
              Lower Visions I
              Lower Visions II
              Lower Visions III
              Lower Visions IV
              Harmonies In Green

              Sarah Davachi

              Two Sisters

                The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ. The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very large cast-iron bells), choir, string quartet, low woodwinds, and trombone quartet, alongside sine tones and electronic drones. Among the pipe organs featured on the album is an extremely rare Italian tracker organ from 1742, housed now in the Southwest desert region of the United States. Davachi is accompanied in these recordings by a formidable group of musicians and interpreters, including the Apartment House ensemble.

                The carillon that sounds on the piece ‘Hall of Mirrors’ is the third largest in the world, with its heaviest bell weighing approximately twelve Imperial tons. Conceptually, there is a loose thread that runs through the compositional methods of Two Sisters, influenced by the allegory of ‘temperance’ in a minimalist aesthetic sense: “one foot on land, one foot in the water”, as it were, caught in the perpetual balance of restraint as delight and necessity. There are mirrored sonic and structural images throughout the album, also reflected in the iconography of the cover: the satyr and the subject, the shared gaze between head and body, the dialogue between cerebral and physical response, as above so below. It’s like there’s two sisters of faith and chance.

                TRACK LISTING

                A1. Hall Of Mirrors
                A2. Alas, Departing
                A3. Vanity Of Ages
                B1. Icon Studies I
                B2. Harmonies In Bronze
                C1. Harmonies In Green
                C2. Icon Studies II
                D1. En Bas Tu Vois
                D2. O World And The Clear Song

                Sarah Davachi

                Antiphonals

                  It was once said that listening to Antiphonals was, “like listening to a progressive rock album except it’s just the keyboard parts.” As the second full-length LP on Late Music, Davachi offers here a slow and sedate solo affair composed with the various horns and woodwinds of the mellotron alongside organs, pianos, harpsichord, and more quiet delights. All tracks composed, performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Sarah Davachi (SOCAN), February - December 2020 Mastered by Sean McCann

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Barry says: Antiphonals is a wonderful juxtaposition of gothic gloom and slowly morphing drones, somewhere along the lines of a classical, short-form Sunn0))). It's beautifully dense and immediate, experimental but deeply listenable. Impeccable.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  A1 - Chorus Scene - 2:47
                  A2 - Magdalena - 10:19
                  A3 - First Cadence - 5:57
                  A4 - Gradual Of Image - 3:09

                  B1 - Border Of Mind - 5:53
                  B2 - Abeyant - 7:12
                  B3 - Rushes Recede - 6:35
                  B4 - Doubled Flutes - 2:19

                  Sarah Davachi

                  Pale Bloom

                    Pale Bloom finds Sarah Davachi coming full circle. After abandoning the piano studies of her youth for a series of albums utilizing everything from pipe and reed organs to analog synthesizers, this prolific Los Angeles-based composer returns to her first instrument for a radiant work of quiet minimalism and poetic rumination. Recorded at Berkeley, California’s famed Fantasy Studios, Pale Bloom is comprised of two delicatelyarranged sides. The first—a three-part suite where Davachi’s piano acts as conjurer, beckoning Hammond organ and stirring countertenor into a patiently unfolding congress—recalls Eduard Artemiev’s majestic soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris.

                    “Perfumes I-III” employs the harmonically rich music of Bach as a springboard for abstract, solemn pieces that sound as haunted as they are dreamlike. While the first half of Pale Bloom showcases Davachi’s latent Romanticism, the sidelong “If It Pleased Me To Appear To You Wrapped In This Drapery” reveals the Mills College graduate’s affinity for the work of avantgarde composers La Monte Young and Eliane Radigue. Softly vibrating strings rise and fall like complementary exhalations of breath. As the fluctuating pitches create overtones that pitter and pulse, the piece slowly and subtly evolves—suggesting a well-tempered stillness, yet without stasis.

                    STAFF COMMENTS

                    Barry says: It's properly beautiful stuff this, shining with modern classical delicacy but bolstered by a dark undercurrent of neo-gothic organs and infrequent echoic piano stabs. Tentative and minimalistic, but sonically moving, Davachi makes it clear she is here to stay. Thoroughly gorgeous stuff.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Perfumes I
                    2. Perfumes II
                    3. Perfumes III
                    4. If It Pleased Me To Appear To You Wrapped In This Drapery


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