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- Summary: The two-track release from Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone features an ARP 2500 synthesizer, as well as trombone played by Mats Äleklint, and bass clarinet from Isak Hedjärn.
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- Record Label: Portraits GRM
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Experimental Ambient, Modern Composition, Post-Minimalism, Drone
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UncutAug 31, 2022"Living Torch I" is gentle and organic, a hypnotic four-note refrain offering some of the spiritual uplift of her organ work. The shorter "Living Torch II" presents something like the same ingredients, but strafes them with electronic attack. [Oct 2022, p.33]
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Aug 31, 2022Where her past work could sound like it was written for a grandiose 18th-century opera house, Living Torch is closer to the long-lost sonic component of a modern art installation, endless in its possibilities and imagination.
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Aug 31, 2022Living Torch is a fitting and crucial next step, as Malone fulfills and expands the promise of her self-made early works.
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The WireAug 31, 2022An album of sombre yet uplifting electronic music. ... If that [a requiem for a close friend and respected artist] wasn’t the original intent, one can hardly imagine a finer tribute. [Sep 2022, p.43]