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Pale Bloom finds Sarah Davachi coming full circle. After abandoning the piano studies of her youth for a series of albums utilizing everything from pipe and reed organs to analog synthesizers, this prolific Los Angeles-based composer returns to her first instrument for a radiant work of quiet minimalism and poetic rumination.
Recorded at Berkeley, Californias famed Fantasy Studios, Pale Bloom is comprised of two delicately-arranged sides. The firsta three-part suite where Davachis piano acts as conjurer, beckoning Hammond organ and stirring countertenor into a patiently unfolding congressrecalls Eduard Artemievs majestic soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris. Perfumes I-III employs the harmonically rich music of Bach as a springboard for abstract, solemn pieces that sound as haunted as they are dreamlike.
While the first half of Pale Bloom showcases Davachis latent Romanticism, the sidelong If It Pleased Me To Appear To You Wrapped In This Drapery reveals the Mills College graduates affinity for the work of avant-garde composers La Monte Young and Eliane Radigue. Softly vibrating strings rise and fall like complementary exhalations of breath. As the fluctuating pitches create overtones that pitter and pulse, the piece slowly and subtly evolvessuggesting a well-tempered stillness, yet without stasis.
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