The wonderful STROOM 〰 label expand their precious archive of Lowlands-based synth music with a flowering compilation of Siebe Baarda aka Cybe’s ersatz exotic electronics Tropisch Verlangen, or Tropical Desire, recorded in the 80’s and cast aside to languish in obscurity more or less ever since. Mastered by Sean McCann.įile Under: Ambient, Classical, Kris’s Picks Mixed by Sarah Davachi at Alms Vert in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recorded between January and November 2021. It’s like there’s two sisters of faith and chance. There are mirrored sonic and structural images throughout the album, also reflected in the iconography of the cover: the satyr and the subject, the shared gaze between head and body, the dialogue between cerebral and physical response, as above so below. Conceptually, there is a loose thread that runs through the compositional methods of Two Sisters, influenced by the allegory of ‘temperance’ in a minimalist aesthetic sense: “one foot on land, one foot in the water”, as it were, caught in the perpetual balance of restraint as delight and necessity. The carillon that sounds on the piece ‘Hall of Mirrors’ is the third largest in the world, with its heaviest bell weighing approximately twelve Imperial tons. Davachi is accompanied in these recordings by a formidable group of musicians and interpreters, including the Apartment House ensemble. Among the pipe organs featured on the album is an extremely rare Italian tracker organ from 1742, housed now in the Southwest desert region of the United States. The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very large cast-iron bells), choir, string quartet, low woodwinds, and trombone quartet, alongside sine tones and electronic drones. Green vinyl! The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ. Sarah Davachi: Two Sisters (Late Music) LP