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  • Summary: Created between 2020 and 2023, the latest full-length release from composer Kali Malone features the Macadam Ensemble and Anima Brass.
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  1. Mar 4, 2024
    90
    The real freaks can nerd out on the harmonic theory that will wash right over most ears on this divinely sequenced record. You don't need to be educated to enjoy Malone's music: it's emotive, world-building and all-encompassing. The beauty lies within that.
  2. Mar 4, 2024
    83
    As a listener, you pay attention not just to those steps but to the overtones that fill the air in between. Each chord is a burr of wonderment.
  3. Uncut
    Feb 7, 2024
    80
    The likes of "No Sun To Burn" (for brass) or the nine0minute title track, will pull on the listener's heartstrings at least as much as it endorses the composer's process. [Feb 2024, p.31]
  4. Mojo
    Feb 7, 2024
    80
    Her ability to dominate a room with minimal musical movement is astonishing; this record lowers the temperature, heightens the sense, slows down life, frame by frame. [Mar 2024, p.85]
  5. Feb 7, 2024
    80
    The power of these long form works is the room afforded to imprint your own interpretations, feelings, and notions upon them like Rorschach tests or perceiving shapes in clouds. Will these drones imprint the same emotions and thoughts a thousand years from now? Only time will tell.
  6. Feb 12, 2024
    80
    For those expecting Malone’s all-enveloping instrumental embrace, the churchiness of the voices can startle. But the younger artist came to music through choirs, and the sorrowful grace of the words makes plain emotions she previously only implied.
  7. Feb 14, 2024
    71
    At times, Malone’s “magic eye” seems elusive. Other times, it comes gloriously into focus, shimmering like an elegant mirage.

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