Sarah Davachi merges studio practice and live performance on new album, Antiphonals

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  • It's out this September via Davachi's own label, Late Music.
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  • Listen to the first single from Sarah Davachi's new album. The eight-track Antiphonals is coming out on Late Music, the label Davachi started for the release of Cantus, Descant last year. The new album's concept stems from the Los Angeles-based musician merging her studio practice with the tape delay processes that inform her live performance. It's based on the Mellotron, an electro-mechanical musical instrument. "This is a collection of studies that began as a way of giving reverence to repetition and modality within a harmonic space," writes Davachi. "It is a minimalist music that is as much concerned with the vertical experience of texture as it is with the elongation of intervallic progressions across the horizontal realm—an occurrence that we might typically refer to as 'melody,' but which becomes obscured here in the continual undoing of its staying power." Read our feature with Davachi from 2020. Listen to "Rushes Recede."
    Tracklist 01. Chorus Scene 02. Magdalena 03. First Cadence 04. Gradual Of Image 05. Border Of Mind 06. Abeyant 07. Rushes Recede 08. Doubled Flutes Late Music will release Antiphonals on September 10th, 2021. Photo credit: Sean McCann
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