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- Summary: The latest full-length release for the Canadian composer features recordings of a variety of church organs in Amsterdam, Chicago, Vancouver, Copenhagen and Los Angeles.
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- Record Label: LATE
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde
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Sep 15, 2020Cantus, Descant is accessible without ever feeling thoughtless, plays to Davachi's sonic strengths, and provides just enough experimentation and variety to justify its daunting running time. It's a journey worth taking.
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UncutSep 15, 2020Glorious soundsuite. [Oct 2020, p.37]
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MojoSep 15, 2020An extraordinary 80-minute concept album. [Oct 2020, p.91]
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Sep 18, 2020With Cantus, Descant, Davachi has arrived at maybe her purest distillation of those ideals. The attention to detail is itself a kind of time warp; in its patient hold, the music becomes something entirely new.
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The WireNov 6, 2020The first two tracks showcase the oddity of the album’s moods. ... The tension grows to breaking point on the two vocal numbers, “Play The Ghost” and “Canyon Walls”, in which the barest suggestion of melodic form, coalescing out of scatters of organ drone and faded, looping instruments has to provide a support for Davachi’s Grouper-like laryngeal ectoplasm.[Oct 2020, p.52]
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Sep 23, 2020Overall, while the album certainly has some parts that stunningly wash over you, it has many others that simply wash away.
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Sep 15, 2020Cantus, Descant is an album that functions as meditative background music, but turn it up and it becomes an unignorable study in sound.
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