{"id":182866,"date":"2025-12-09T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182866\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:14:07","slug":"kara-lis-coverdale-a-series-of-actions-in-a-sphere-of-forever-changes-in-air-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182866\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara-Lis Coverdale: A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever \/ Changes in Air Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the year, Kara-Lis Coverdale<\/a> hadn\u2019t released any recorded music since 2017. Then it all came pouring out. The Canadian composer\u2019s first full-length of 2025, From Where You Came<\/a>, was a summation of how she spent the intervening years: staging sound-bath installations in saunas, playing in the ensembles for Floating Points<\/a> and Tim Hecker<\/a>, and composing for chamber orchestras, choirs, and her childhood love, the pipe organ. While that record\u2019s dreamy, digi-orchestral atmospherics sometimes gave way under the weight of re-establishing Coverdale as an album artist, two subsequent projects have scoped out the periphery of her practice and been more compelling for it. A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever takes the acoustic piano as its near-single-minded focus, while Changes in Air loosens that restriction only slightly to incorporate organ and modular synthesizer into a drone piece. Together, they form a treatise on the lingering note.<\/p>\n

As a percussive instrument, once struck, the piano cannot crescendo. A note\u2019s expiration, however, can be prolonged. On A Series of Actions, Coverdale draws out the vapor trails from each key. The record is atmospheric in the most literal sense, like a collection of weather phenomena all taking place well above the Arctic Circle. Coverdale also foregrounds the material components of her chosen instrument\u2014wood, steel, ivory\u2014and its physical limitations. You can hear her audibly press the sustain pedal into gear on the Ruins<\/a>-esque \u201cIn Charge of the Hour,\u201d while \u201cLowlands\u201d creates, through what must be a trick of microphone placement, the effect of being positioned below her foot, capturing those distinctive (and familiar, to anyone who took childhood piano lessons) whooshes and creaks. At the climax of \u201cTurning Multitudes,\u201d which by this point has woven a weir out of Ravel, Sakamoto<\/a>, and Satie<\/a>, Coverdale seems to reach for a note higher than the highest she can play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the beginning of the year, Kara-Lis Coverdale hadn\u2019t released any recorded music since 2017. Then it all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[692,93,61,60,278,514],"class_list":["post-182866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}