Let Night Come On Bells End The Day

by Sarah Davachi

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Mr. Paul Everything Davachi does is gold. This is no exception. I'd listen to her eat a bag of crisps on a bus if Late Music would put it out on vinyl. Favorite track: Hours In The Evening.

1111222334 Let Night Come twinkles bright among the stars in the drone sky. A necessary addition to my collection.

abdonoval On repeat, forever. Favorite track: Hours In The Evening (extended).

Shimocatzawa So beautiful. Highly recommended! Favorite track: Buhrstone.

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	1.	Garlands 02:54
	2.	Mordents 11:15
	3.	At Hand 06:05
	4.	Buhrstone 08:17
	5.	Hours In The Evening 13:00
	6.	Hours In The Evening (extended) 17:55

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Released (LP) April 2018 by Recital
Reissue on Late Music, LMRX

Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed by Sarah Davachi

Sarah Davachi: electric organ, acoustic piano, Mellotron, EMS Synthi AKS & Steiner EVI synthesizers

Recorded between July 2016 and January 2017 in Vancouver and Montréal, Canada

Mastered by Sean McCann
Cover and insert photographs by Sarah Davachi
Back photograph by Alex Waber

From Recital:
"Recital is joyed to publish the newest record by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi. Currently working on her PhD in Musicology at UCLA, her trajectory has been unorthodox. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, which, if you've never been there, doesn't really scream "Avant-Garde" (Calgary is the rodeo capital of the world). From a young age, Sarah was a driven pianist (and figure-skater, although that's a story for a different time). It is important and interesting that she chose to study esoteric music; as Sarah could have easily been a cowgirl or a concert pianist had her ingrained love of synthesis and sonic phenomenology not taken the wheel.

Sarah is a considered person. I find few people that have the diligence and resolve to take their time with music... especially in a live context. I respect that about her. The first time I saw Sarah perform, I presumptuously told her that her music reminded me of my favorite Mirror albums (the exceptional project of Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann). Sarah was not familiar with Mirror, so the compliment was initially lost on her. Years back I was in the same situation when a review compared my music to Andrew Chalk, who was unknown to me at the time. So I felt a kinship in our magnetic drift towards unspoken and clustered beauty.

Let Night Come On Bells End The Day follows the release of her "sound-wheel" LP All My Circles Run, which examines the isolation of different instruments. Let Night Come On..., recorded mainly with a Mellotron and electronic organ, feels like a return to the nest. Burrowed in the studio, Davachi was the only performer on this album. She both splays her compositional architecture and re-contextualizes the essence of her early output. She chiseled careful and shadowed hymns; anchors of emotion.

Two pillars of this album are "Mordents", which to my ears drops hints of her love for Progressive rock music - and "Buhrstone," comparable to a sombre funeral march of piano and flutes. These two examine punctuations of early music, gently plucking melodies and movements. The three other compositions are tonal works, blowing slow jets of lapping harmonics.

Writing this description now, I find it hard to separate "At Hand" from filmmaker Paul Clipson, who made a melancholic film for this piece of Sarah's. A fitting title for Sarah and Paul's relationship - frequently working in orbit of each other, meticulous and tactile. I cherish this track as a memory of Paul.

This is a lovely album to fill an evening living room with. A blanket, a cup of wine, a dim bulb, a wide window."

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released April 13, 2018

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