The music heard on Kara-Lis Coverdale‘s album Changes in Air originated from an installation at a floating sauna in Oslo called Skarven. The pieces are inspired by five materials (wood, water, sun, glass, and metal) and were originally composed and recorded in 2019, then finished in 2025, when the album was released.
While From Where You Came, the first of Coverdale’s three 2025 LPs, was an expansive, collaborative work, and A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever was a series of solo piano nocturnes, Changes in Air is somewhere in between. It was composed and played by Coverdale alone, using electronic organ, modular synthesis, and piano, and it contains longer pieces which flow into each other, subtly evolving.
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Kara-Lis Coverdale often focuses her mesmerizing compositions on looped vocals or organs, creating transformative, hypnotic arrangements. She issued a few recordings during the 2010s, then focused on performances and installations, in addition to collaborating with Tim Hecker, Floating Points, Actress, Lyra Pramuk, and many others. From Where You Came is her first major release since 2017’s Grafts, and it’s easily her most ambitious and expansive work to date, having been written and recorded in multiple countries, and incorporating a greater array of orchestral and electronic instrumentation. Vocals are still central to Coverdale’s compositions, with ethereal opener “Eternity” being a gentle, honest reflection on beauty. “The Placid Illusion” begins…