"At the beginning of the year, Kara-Lis Coverdale hadn't released any recorded music since 2017. Then it all came pouring out. The Canadian composer's first full-length of 2025, From Where You Came, was a summation of how she spent the intervening years: staging sound-bath installations in saunas, playing in the ensembles for Floating Points and Tim Hecker, and composing for chamber orchestras, choirs, and her childhood love, the pipe organ."
"While that record's 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."
Kara-Lis Coverdale released several records in 2025 after an absence from recorded music since 2017. From Where You Came summarized years spent staging sound-bath installations in saunas, playing in ensembles for Floating Points and Tim Hecker, and composing for chamber orchestras, choirs, and pipe organ. Two subsequent projects examined peripheral aspects of her practice: A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever centers the acoustic piano, while Changes in Air adds organ and modular synthesizer to create a drone piece. Those records focus on sustained tones and the decay of notes, foregrounding instrumental materials, microphone placement, and the physicalities of piano performance.
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