{"product_id":"malone-kali-burning-song","title":"Malone, Kali : Burning Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eBurning Song, composer and organist Kali Malone’s first new album since 2024’s All Life Long, represents a transformation in her compositional strategy towards a process that is intuitive and direct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where J.S. Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life; his body rests beneath the sanctuary. Malone is the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach Organ, an instrument completed in 2000 but with bespoke tuning and temperament systems based on historical norms of the baroque period. She is joined by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O’Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, the same trio that honed a profound connection based on deep listening through the development of Malone’s work Does Spring Hide Its Joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChord follows chord, each in slow succession, emerging like stones of various shades and shapes on a winding path. 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Her freer hand makes for emotional listening, with this often sombre artist’s tones turning dreamy and resolved by the final track, My Eve My Dawn.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eTHE OBSERVER - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ereview (1 Nov)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; color: #606060;\"\u003e“The result is, in a word, auratic: radiating dissonances that march and melt with a stately sense of their own ephemerality…Resisting the formality of canon in the room where technique reached its most ecstatic heights, Malone instead revels in the directional, time-bound poetics of emergence and decay.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eTHE WIRE - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ereview (Nov issue)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; color: #606060;\"\u003e“”Sounding A Void” and closer “My Eye My Dawn” are lovely examples of her method: stately chord progressions suggesting warm and slowly unfolding drama.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eUNCUT -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\/10 review (issue out in October)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #606060;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IDEOLOGIC ORGAN","offers":[{"title":"Glass Clear Vinyl LP","offer_id":55169203241306,"sku":"FBR-14248","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":55169203274074,"sku":"FBR-14249","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":55169203339610,"sku":"FBR-14250","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Indies Only Monument Marble Vinyl LP","offer_id":55169203372378,"sku":"FBR-14251","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/CAR_20260901_1302_120418_918_p_download_20260901120311_1_001.jpg?v=1794508584","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/malone-kali-burning-song","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}