Sarah Davachi's Cantus, Descant, released in 2020 on Late Music, is a breathtaking work of slow-moving minimalism that bridges the worlds of electronic and classical music. Recorded across a remarkable range of historic instruments and sacred spaces — including a 1479 Van Straten pipe organ in Amsterdam, a 1928 E.M. Skinner pipe organ at Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, and a Story & Clark reed organ from around 1890 — the album carries a deep sense of history and place. Davachi weaves together electric organ, piano, Mellotron, voice, synthesizer, and strings into something hauntingly meditative.
Cantus, Descant rewards patient listeners, functioning as immersive, meditative sound at lower volumes while revealing itself as an unignorable study in texture and tone when played loud. Davachi has described her approach as treating sounds as "worlds that you enter into" — not as escapism, but as emotional and aesthetic disclosure — and that philosophy is felt throughout the album's carefully layered drones and shifting tonal landscapes. Presented in a gatefold sleeve, this is a beautifully considered release from one of contemporary minimalism's most distinctive voices.
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- Format: Vinyl
- Label: Late Music
- Genre: Electronic, Classical
- Release Date: 09/18/2020
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TRACKS
A1. Stations II
A2. The Pelican
A3. Ruminant
A4. Still Lives
B1. Stations V
B2. Midlands
B3. Play The Ghost
B4. Stations IV
C1. Passing Bell
C2. Hanging Gardens
C3. Stations I
C4. Gold Upon White
C5. Oldgrowth
D1. Stations III
D2. Canyon Walls
D3. Badlands
D4. Diaphonia Basilica
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