Kara-Lis Coverdale announces second and third in trilogy of 2025 albums
KARA-LIS COVERDALE ANNOUNCES SECOND ALBUM OF 2025 A SERIES OF ACTIONS IN A SPHERE OF FOREVER, OUT 12 SEPTEMBER VIA SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
SHARES LEAD SINGLE ‘TURNING MULTITUDES’
THIRD ALBUM TO BE RELEASED 21 NOVEMBER
PLAYS FIRST UK SHOWS IN SIX YEARS AT LONDON’S ICA ON 1 OCTOBER AS WELL AS MANCHESTER’S WHITE HOTEL ON 30 SEPTEMBER
“Quiet ecstasy from a composer without boundaries”
4/5 The Guardian ‘Experimental Album of the Month’
“An emotional tapestry of lush organic instrumentation and synthetic drones, touching on the beauty in grief and the grief in beauty”
RA ‘Recommends’
Listen to ‘Turning Multitudes’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-_Gx-IgYU
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Earlier this year, Kara-Lis Coverdale —“one of the most exciting composers in North America” (The Guardian) — released her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came, via Smalltown Supersound. Following up, she today she announces her second full-length release of 2025, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, out 12 September via Smalltown Supersound alongside lead single ‘Turning Multitudes’. Coverdale will follow A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever with another full-length album, Changes in Air, to be released on 21 November.
Known for her musical innovations at the intersection of experimental electronics and minimalist traditions, Coverdale’s previous albums Aftertouches (2015), Grafts (2017), and this year’s From Where You Came garnered acclaim for their deep exploration of timbre. On A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, Coverdale deepens her investigation of tonal quality by focusing instrumentally on acoustic piano. Unlike Satie, Debussy or Chopin, Coverdale’s nocturnes and lullabies are for an even later hour, with a heightened sensitivity to “noise”—or more broadly: anything extraneous to the core harmonic and timbral structure of the piece; and anything that might interfere with clarity, slowness, or perception of space.
Written and recorded during winter in a small rural studio in Ontario, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever reflects Coverdale’s retreat from maximal sound and a return to acoustic fundamentals. The album focuses as much on the decay of piano melody as on its attack. Mood emerges from deceleration and restraint; emerging melodies, inspired by modal influences from the late Renaissance, post-war minimalism, and Coverdale’s idiosyncratic sense of musical ecology, bloom at their own pace. In her own words, “This album is an exploration of harmony in space, music as an antithesis to silence. A silence that does not exist.”
At the end of September Kara-Lis begins a European tour which includes stops in the UK at London’s ICA on 1 October and Manchester’s White Hotel on 30 September, her first UK shows in six years.
Pre-order A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever here:
https://lnk.to/sts413
Photo credit: Norman Wong
High-res images can be found here
A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever tracklist:
1. Kõne, Vastu
2. In Charge of the Hour
3. Vortex
4. Circularism
5. Lowlands
6. Cumulative Resolution
7. Turning Multitudes
8. Soft Fold 3/4
9. Suspension of Swallowed Earth
Kara-Lis Coverdale live dates:
14 Sep – Chicago, IL @ Garfield Park Conservatory (Plantasia)
15 Sep – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ^
24 Sep – Berlin, DE @ Gedächtniskirche *
27 Sep – Strasbourg, DE @ Saint Paul Church #
28 Sep – Koln, DE @ Eigelsteintorburg
30 Sep – Manchester @ White Hotel – TICKETS
1 Oct – London @ ICA – TICKETS
3 Oct – The Hague, NL @ Korzo Theatre (Rewire x Korzo)
7 Oct – Athens, GR @ Gazarte
8 Oct – Oslo, NO @ Blå
12 Oct – Kraków, PL @ Krakow Philharmonic Hall (Unsound)
26 Nov – Lisbon, PT @ Culturgest
^ = solo piano performance
* = with Ellen Arkbro
# = electronics & organ performance
Praise for From Where You Came:
“Quiet ecstasy from a composer without boundaries”
4/5 The Guardian ‘Experimental Album of the Month’
“An emotional tapestry of lush organic instrumentation and synthetic drones, touching on the beauty in grief and the grief in beauty”
RA ‘Recommends’
“A masterclass […] detailed, disarming, and impossible to ignore”
83 Still Listening
“Immersive and beautifully disorienting”
8/10 Uncut
“On her extraordinary new record, [Coverdale] creates rich, electroacoustic compositions that capture the ever-shifting currents of existence”
4/5 The Skinny
“If forests were to sing, perhaps they would sound like this – austerely beautiful”
4/5 NARC
“Thoughtful, wonderfully human and at times, yes, utterly beautiful”
Electronic Sound
“Adds fresh weight to a very special catalogue”
Clash
“A masterful modern composer, her music filled with light and imagination”
The New Cue
“Kara-Lis Coverdale has a way of making electronic music feel deeply human”
CMU – Approved
“Makes my heart ache in a good way. It’s deep music – open and inviting, but also demanding something”
James Krivchenia (via Crack)
“A gorgeous, surprising listen every time it’s on”
Futureproofing
“Fantastic”
Moonbuilding
“There’s something restorative in everything she creates”
Music For Ur Mental