Kara-Lis Coverdale details third album of 2025
KARA-LIS COVERDALE DETAILS THIRD ALBUM OF 2025
CHANGES IN AIR OUT 21 NOVEMBER VIA SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
SHARES LEAD SINGLE ‘CURVE TRACES OF HELD SPACE’
“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 ‘Curve Traces of Held Space’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxiHAL4tYs4
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In May, composer, musician, and producer Kara-Lis Coverdale released her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came. It was followed by her second album of 2025, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, in September. Today, Coverdale details her third full-length release of the year, Changes In Air, out 21 November via Smalltown Supersound, and unveils its lead single ‘Curve Traces of Held Space’.
Changes In Air is a work for electric organ, modular synthesis, and piano in five sections. The album was adapted from a work originally written for installation at Skarven in Oslo, a floating sauna facing the expansive fjord which is heated by wood fire and solar radiation. Five “materials” influence the album’s arrangements: wood, water, sun, glass, and metal. Coverdale composed, played, and recorded Changes In Air alone in Marquette, Manitoba in 2019 and completed it this year.
Known for her musical innovations at the intersection of experimental electronics and minimalist traditions, Coverdale’s releases have garnered acclaim for their deep exploration of timbre. This year’s trilogy of albums released by Smalltown Supersound are Coverdale’s first major new works since Grafts (2017), Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases), and A 480 (2014, Constellation Tatsu).
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 of his Promises ensemble at The Hollywood Bowl in LA). She has previously collaborated with with Actress, Yasuaki Shimizu, Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk and has 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.
Coverdale is currently touring the EU in support of her 2025 releases having just played a mesmerising show at London’s ICA. A full list of live performances and festival appearances are listed below and tickets are on sale now.
Pre-order Changes In Air here:
https://lnk.to/sts453-changesinair
Purchase From Where You Came here:
https://kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/from-where-you-came-2
Purchase A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever here:
https://kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/a-series-of-actions-in-a-sphere-of-forever
Photo credit: Norman Wong
High-res images can be found here
Changes In Air tracklist:
1. Strait of Phase
2. Labyrinth I
3. Boundlessness
4. Oriri
5. Curve Traces of Held Space
Live dates:
8 Oct – Oslo, NO @ Blå
12 Oct – Kraków, PL @ Krakow Philharmonic Hall (Unsound)
22 Nov – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz
26 Nov – Lisbon, PT @ Culturgest
28 Nov – Tallinn, EE @ Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
5 Dec – Rio de Janeiro, BR @ Solar de Botafogo (Festival Novas Frequências)
8 Dec – São Paulo, BR @ Teatro Cultura Artística (Festival Novas Frequências)
Praise for Kara-Lis Coverdale:
“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