Released (LP) November 2016 by Important Records
Reissue on Late Music, LMRVII
Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed by Sarah Davachi
Mastered by James Plotkin
Layout by Konrad Jandavs
Special thanks to Richard Smith
Sarah Davachi: EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer, violin, voice
Recorded between August 2015 and February 2016 in Vancouver, Canada
'Vergers' is Davachi's third full-length release following 'Barons Court' (2015, Students of Decay) and 'Dominions' (2016, JAZ Records), and her second appearance with Important Records following 2014's 'August Harp' cassette on the Cassauna imprint. In this work, she meditates on a single electronic instrument, the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer, while also weaving sparse acoustic elements – her own voice and violin – into a series of three long-form, muted gestures. Elements of distance and alienation are certainly at play in the textural quality of these compositions, a feeling that is further defined by track titles that reference the spirit world and an album title that calls to mind the solitary tasks of the church orderly. The record opens with the aptly titled, 'gentle so gentle', a side-long movement that harkens the glacial character of Davachi's previous efforts. 'ghosts and all' and 'in staying' suggest a more disjointed path, with the latter culminating in a subtly dissonant dirge that leaves little absolve between the organic, the artificial, and the impermanent.
It took me three months to settle in the meterological pace of this monolith. But there is joy in forgetting the time. Fair warning: your boss might curse this album. aisthetic
nothing short of crushingly beautiful. i found this album around the time it came out and it didn't make sense to me then. it does now. every drone, every note, every pull & push between the sounds. my very being crushed by the softness of each and every collision. im being slowly regurgitated back into reality with each listen. warm like a mother's womb. soft like a cigarette infested pillow. i have nothing but praise for this record. i was able to feel things i did not think were possible. ppr jack
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This is one of the best albums i've ever heard. I swear, I will never hear anything like it again.
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