Kara-Lis Coverdale announces first new album in eight years

KARA-LIS COVERDALE ANNOUNCES FIRST NEW ALBUM IN EIGHT YEARS FROM WHERE YOU CAME, OUT 9 MAY VIA SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND

SHARES VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘DAZE’

“One of the most exciting composers in North America”
The Guardian

“A masterful composer”
Resident Advisor

Watch the video for ‘Daze’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Um2O9Vsr4

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Kara-Lis Coverdale has today announced her first album in eight years, From Where You Came, will be released on 9 May via new label Smalltown Supersound. She has also shared lead single ‘Daze’ along with its self-directed video.

A dynamic and sublime work rich in emotion and sensitivity, From Where You Came unspools as a series of nocturnal transmissions, altered-state refinements, and vivid stories, rich in vibrant, illuminating qualities. Drawing together 19th century programmatic music, mid-’70s jazz, and her distinctively colourful and multi-dimensional approach to composition. She conducts emotional resonance like currents of charge, hard-wiring the purely felt into electronic signals.

Though written and recorded on several continents, including at the GRM Studio in Paris and the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, From Where You Came was completed in rural Ontario, Canada. Featuring contributions from multidisciplinary sound artist and cellist Anne Bourne and GRAMMY award winning trombone prodigy Kalia Vandever, the album’s eleven expansive yet condensed compositions incorporate strings, woodwind, brass, keys, software and modular synthesis, inscribing a musical language that resonates animations with unfiltered, striking clarity. “Anything can have a voice,” says Coverdale. “For me, voice is beyond human”.

Reckoning with the experience of grief, dislocation, and the pressure of total freedom and independence, Coverdale yields supernatural capacity to transfer tribulation into highly imaginative and inspiring fantasy epics of sound. In the piloted flight of ‘Daze’, wind choruses dance and twirl in ornate punctuated cycles as dissonant portamentos annotate modulatory ascent to soaring heights, gliding and churning across turbulent gales to new pockets of harmonic plateaus, stabilising periodically through rhythmic gait for rest. It feels like the joy of flight.

Born in Burlington, Canada and of Estonian heritage, this major new work from Kara-Lis Coverdale follows Grafts (2017), Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases), and A 480 (2014, Constellation Tatsu). Previously Coverdale has performed concert halls, clubs, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia headlining and touring with Big Thief, Caribou, Gagaku Ensemble and Floating Points (including as a part at his Promises ensemble at The Hollywood Bowl in LA). She has previously collaborated with with Actress, Yasuaki Shimizu, Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk and created compositions for film, theatre, dance, symphonic instrumentation, and installation, including Cello Octet Amsterdam, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Vanemuine Theatre, NYC Contemporaneous Ensemble and Ludens Choir with pipe organ a connective tissue throughout much of her work.

Pre-order From Where You Came here:
https://lnk.to/from-where-you-came

Photo credit: Norman Wong

High-res images can be found here

From Where You Came 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. Offload Flip
9. Habitat
10. Equal Exchange
11. The Ceremonial Entrance of Colour