Sirens, by Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV

Sirens

by Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV

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Sirens 12" Black Vinyl Reissue, Artist Copies
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A 2023 reissue of the epic collaboration between Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV (David Sutton), 8 years since its initial 500-copy limited release on Umor Rex (Mexico City) in 2015.

Includes unlimited streaming of Sirens via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Tunnel Vision 05:56	buy track
2.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Territory of Subtle Entries 04:28	buy track
3.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Disney 08:14	buy track
4.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Grigori in Jakarta 03:47	buy track
5.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Buffering Landscape 05:34	buy track
6.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Sub-fall (to) 06:12	buy track
7.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Borrowed Memory 02:59	buy track
8.	Kara-Lis Coverdale, LXV - Informant 07:06	buy track

about

Landmark collaboration between Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV, composed between Montreal and Philadelphia across 2013-2015.

"Inspired by the link between seduction and violence, Sirens comprises a series of timbrally vast anamorphic pieces that poise the voice as a newly imagined tool of multiplicity. Processes of sample manipulation, signal processing, routing, and source design inform instrumental writing and performance in feedback until intertwined, flickering between states of conflict and consonance. Apparitions of the schizophrenic voice are at one moment fractured and cold and at the next full of warmth and vivaciousness, embodying velvet rituals of romanticism in the digital age.

Ultimately, Sirens is music for ambitious dreamers: surreal sound portraits sound like the warmth of the world laid over an ice cold virtual altar. LXV’s vocal truncations and fleshy sound palettes depict the archivation of the breath and aural fantasies of the flesh which Coverdale sets amongst a vast and unconfined landscape of deeper and unknown force. Harmonically active and dynamic orchestrations underpin post-sacred tonalities while brooding pipe organs, sphinx flutes, and hailstorms of metallic percussion characterize uniquely disjointed discussions between disparate compositional ontologies. At times violent and at others serenely peaceful and seductive, these pieces, at their most powerful moments illuminate a felt space between cybernetic energy and the body."

Recorded & produced by
Kara-Lis Coverdale and David Sutton
Mastered by John Tejada
Design & layout by Daniel Castrejon
Cover photograph by Cody Cobb

-May 19, 2015, UMOR REX

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released May 19, 2015

umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/sirens

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Kara-Lis Coverdale Montreal, Québec

discography

Grafts

Apr 2017
Sirens

May 2015
Aftertouches

Mar 2015
A 480

Apr 2014
Triptych I

Dec 2012

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