The night prevails along the keys of the Kara-Lis Coverdale piano. The Canadian composer returns a few weeks after “from Where You Came”, with a new album entirely dedicated to the moments of night quiet but above all to the silence that always and in any case vibrates, leaving a mark in the compositional imagination of a musician who after years of distance has decided to mix his cards and publish three discs, of which the second is the present present “A series of action in a spere of forever”.
Written and recorded during the winter in a small rural study in Ontario, the nine piano movements highlight the partial abandonment of kara-lis from experimental electronics and mere electroacoustic progression, in the name of a neoclassicism that is primarily minimalism.
“This disc is an exploration of harmony in space, music as an antithesis to silence. A silence that does not exist,” says the cover. And in fact episodes such as “In Charge of the Hour” and “Soft Fold 3/4” are made up of small variations in the twilight, almost to reread in a postmodern Debussy or Satie key, to you the choice.
Instead, there are then traces, such as “Circularism”, which approach certain bucolic scores of Colleen. Same goes for “Lowlands”, with a still pastoral metronome that supports new caresses on the floor. While the night sinks sublime in the scarce four minutes of “Turning Moldestes”, to evoke shadows that move in the air like many small farmhouses in search of their destiny.
“A series of action in a sphere of forever” reflects the wind in the stern that Lemme Lemme feeds the music of a composer never so in the mood for transcendence and an ecstatic spiritualism that consoles, cradles and finally captures the soul.
02/10/2025
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
