Cantus, Descant

by Sarah Davachi

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Recorded across various international locations on massive, historic pipe organs, the electroacoustic composer delivers an overwhelming, eighty-minute meditation on acoustics and sacred spaces. The album relies on glacially slow, sustained analog drones that blur the lines between early music composition and contemporary minimalism. It establishes a profound, almost religious atmosphere of deep contemplation and isolation.

Genres

  • Ambient
  • Drone

Tracklist

  1. Stations II
  2. The Pelican
  3. Ruminant
  4. Still Lives
  5. Stations V
  6. Midlands
  7. Play The Ghost
  8. Stations IV
  9. Passing Bell
  10. Hanging Gardens
  11. Stations I
  12. Gold Upon White
  13. Oldgrowth
  14. Stations III
  15. Canyon Walls
  16. Badlands
  17. Diaphonia Basilica