Sarah Davachi’s 2015 debut LP. A series of extended electroacoustic solo and chamber works, performed by Davachi and a cast of players from the San Francisco Bay Area, recorded across Canada, California, and Europe. It’s all in a landscape, landscape, the location of the mind.

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1. Heliotrope
2. Guildford
3. Tiergarten
4. Wood Green
5. Ruislip

Davachi’s fifth album, originally released in 2018. Number 6 in The Wire magazine Top 50 releases of that year. Comprising a collection of hours for the evening with mellotron, electric organ, piano, and synthesizer. O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. Electric green and red tears.

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1. Garlands
2. Mordents
3. At Hand
4. Buhrstone
5. Hours In The Evening

The acclaimed 2017 LP, originally released in a small run of vinyl on the Cincinnati-based Students Of Decay label. Featuring a suite of extended pieces for strings, voice, organ, and piano, it is said to hover “somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious, barely there and indisputably present” - Pitchfork. Recorded at Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s analogue recording studio in Montreal, Hotel2Tango, the album sees Davachi’s Keyboards supplemented by Camille Hesketh’s soprano vocals, Jessica Holmes on cello and Jessica Mosson violin.

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1. For Strings
2. For Voice
3. Chanter
4. For Organ
5. For Piano

The compositions on this album, written between 2022 and 2024, form a conceptual suite and an observance of the mental dances that we construct to understand acts of passage; the ways that we commune and memorialize and carry symbols back into the world beyond representation. To this end, 'The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir' engages two references to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus: Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, a collection of poems from 1922, and Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo, an early baroque opera from 1607. 'The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir' follows on from the last two albums, which were attempts to begin bridging the gap between the fixed electroacoustic pieces that emerge in Davachi’s home studio and her slow paced, somewhat open-form chamber writing, in which each performance presents a new structure and in which each iteration offers the path to a new composition and deeper meaning.

Alongside Davachi, featured musicians on this album are Andrew McIntosh (viola, Los Angeles), Mattie Barbier (trombone, Los Angeles), Lisa McGee (mezzo-soprano, Los Angeles), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da gamba, Montréal), Eyvind Kang (viola d’amore, Los Angeles), and Rebecca Lane (bass flute, Berlin), Sam Dunscombe (bass clarinet, Berlin), Michiko Ogawa (bass clarinet, Berlin), M.O. Abbott (trombone, Berlin), and Weston Olencki (trombone, Berlin) of the Harmonic Space Orchestra (Winds).

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1. Prologo
2. Possente Spirto
3. The Crier’s Choir
4. Trio For A Ground
5. Res Sub Rosa
6. Constants
7. Night Horns

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.

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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