Kara-Lis Coverdale shares new single ‘Freedom’
KARA-LIS COVERDALE SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘FREEDOM’
ANNOUNCES CANADIAN AND US LIVE DATES
FIRST NEW ALBUM IN EIGHT YEARS FROM WHERE YOU CAME, OUT 9 MAY VIA SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
“One of the most exciting composers in North America”
The Guardian
“A masterful composer”
Resident Advisor
Listen to ‘Freedom’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgIr6mRHQ8
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Composer, musician, and producer Kara-Lis Coverdale today unveils ‘Freedom’, the second single from her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came, out 9 May via Smalltown Supersound. In conjunction, she has also announced select live dates and festival appearances, including a New York show on 15 Sep at Le Poisson Rouge. More live dates and festival appearances will be announced in the coming weeks.
On album standout ‘Freedom’, sound becomes a feat of physics; physical and subterranean, and even destructive amongst drone figures. It follows the lead single ‘Daze’ which was featured as the lead track on The Guardian’s playlist.
Coverdale says of ‘Freedom’:
”Freedom: How do we get it? Where does it come from? What does it feel like? How do we overcome? Merging ongoing work in mediated musical systems and a deep-rooted spiritual quest, modular hornpipes lead in gracing interpolated sequences while the underneath tectonically cracks and whirls, illustrating changing matter in unfathomable and irreversible proportion. It’s so grand it swallows itself, re-emerging within a black hole of levity, transcendence, and birth. This work is of universal natural phenomenon, as if watching a planetary body break itself apart, tectonic or geologic change, or perhaps, watching a star being born, emerging anew from immense pressure.”
Speaking directly to the rootlessness and alienation of modernity while processing the thrill and pain of being alive, From Where You Came draws strength through a commitment to groundedness. A dynamic and sublime work, the album unspools as a series of nocturnal transmissions and vivid stories, rich in vibrant, illuminating qualities. Drawing together 19th century programmatic music, mid-’70s instrumental modalism, 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 with ecological sensitivity.
Though written and recorded across 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 player 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”.
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
Kara-Lis Coverdale live dates:
1 May – Toronto, ON @ Standard Time *
31 May – Lublin, PL @ Labirynt (Codes Festival)
13 Jun – Toronto, ON @ 918 Bathurst
20 Jun – Calgary, AB @ Central United Church (Sled Island Music & Arts Festival)
30 Jun – Montreal, QC @ Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus (Suoni Per il Popolo) ^
15 Sep – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
* = Album listening party & DJ set
^ = Organ set
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