I will misS this peace
even when so much That I miss
returns in the wake Of
the world oPening
up, when
I will See
more people In a day
than I hear drivinG far too speedily
dowN our street
Impure Celestial
Five CDs of organ music from Sarah Davachi
Sarah Davachi has collected five CDs as a box set of recent interrelated works that engage with various organs in the context of other instruments, notably synthesizers. A key track is “Accord of Voice I,” off the album [*Laurus*](https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/laurus-2), released last December. It is a procession of held notes, their rich tonalities layering deeply, the result being beautifully impure harmonies, dense slow motion cacophonies that achieve something almost celestial. The collection is titled *Cantus Figures Laurus* and it includes two previous double-CD sets, *Cantus, Descant* and *Figures in Open Air*, as well as *Laurus* and what Davachi describes as “an extended EP of early sketches for the music fully realised on *Cantus, Descant*.”
Record originally released at [sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com](https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/cantus-figures-laurus). More from Davachi at [sarahdavachi.com](https://www.sarahdavachi.com/).
A New Album from Jeannine Schulz
The six delicate tracks of Wanderer in the Colorful Fields
Another beautiful album by Jeannine Schulz, [*Wanderer in the Colorful Fields*](https://jeannineschulz.bandcamp.com/album/wanderer-in-the-colorful-fields) is six tracks of music that feels a split second shy of being entirely on pause. Quite frequently the emphasis is on slight sounds played in reverse, time slipping backward, in which case it’s still a split second shy of pause, just from the other side of the divide. It’s hard to say if the sounds — which seem to include electric guitar and bells, but could be other things entirely — are treated here like objects under glass, carefully presented, or like natural occurences, chance moments happened upon. Either way, the results are delicate, elegant, and richly reflective.
More from Schulz, who is based in Hamburg, Germany, at [instagram.com/jeannine\_schulz\_art](https://www.instagram.com/jeannine_schulz_art/).
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The Living Stream
A field recording by Landsounds
There is so much going on in this track, a British field recording presumably recorded recently. Something about the suggestion of that time sync makes it feel physically proximate, too, even if it’s far away from wherever the listener might be. And even if nothing in it is, technically, “alive,” in the sense that an animal might be alive, it is nonetheless very much alive. This is “Underwater Stream” by Landsounds, the name under which London-based John Hooper captures audio of the everyday and, as happens here, reveals the complexity inherent in it. In these mere two and a half minutes, there is gurgling, certainly, and droning, yes, and a hum that makes the the droning seem like its trebly by comparison, and other sounds (rope against wood?) that creak like dolphins speak. None is isolated from the others. They are in sync in their own manner. And then there’s that slow heartbeat of a pulse at the start and just before the end. It’s enough to make you think it’s been a bit of ambient techno all along.
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/landsounds](https://soundcloud.com/landsounds/underwater-stream). More from Hooper at [johnhooper.net](https://www.johnhooper.net/).