Sarah Davachi
The Untuning of the Sky
(Full Spectrum Records)
Vancouver, BC
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From the castle in the sky of Catherine Debard:
(Translated by Catherine Debard)

Close your eyes. Now, let the void into your mind and feel the healing power of sound. Oscillations infiltrate and frequencies vibrate in the ear drum, spreading through the brain in a smooth but firm massage, and filtering out any thoughts for a peaceful half-asleep concentration. Different tones and synthetizer shapes layer into a subtle and sophisticated assemblage. Sines, squares, triangles, sawtooth wave poems, analog wire-dreams and ghostly harmonic manifestations appear and disappear in this soundscape by Vancouver’s Sarah Davachi. “Alms Vert” opens it up as a luxurious drone, a cave filled with glowy diamonds where eerie animals hibernate. Pure, fluctuating synth notes cover a lush swarm of melodies. Then, the album softly shifts from one ambience to another, always maintaining a balance of spatiality, resonance and the sacred. Krankyesque Stars of the Lid sound-statues build in your head as consciousness grows towards the light.

Du château dans le ciel de Catherine Debard:

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