From Where You Came, by Kara-Lis Coverdale

From Where You Came

by Kara-Lis Coverdale

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Mag Music that feels like relaxing into a warm salt bath Favorite track: The Placid Illusion.

magoski you know,
it's easy to blame
but truth is
I don't dare
spare
but a moment
this disjointed explanation is spontaneously created out of thin air
there
is
a chasm that can't be
jumped
it s an eternity
to me
wanting &
needing
Look
ing Down
into the abyss
wantng to see the river far below
needing to Be
in those waters below
Favorite track: Eternity.

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1.	Eternity 03:31	buy track
2.	Flickers in the Air of Night 04:02	buy track
3.	The Placid Illusion 05:49	buy track
4.	Daze 05:16	buy track
5.	Coming Around 01:51	buy track
6.	Problem of No Name 04:05	buy track
7.	Freedom 06:58	buy track
8.	Offload Flip 02:14	buy track
9.	Habitat 02:11	buy track
10.	Equal Exchange 02:03	buy track
11.	The Ceremonial Entrance of Colour 04:35	buy track

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From Where You Came unspools as a series of nocturnal transmissions, altered-state refinements, and vivid stories, rich in vibrant, illuminating qualities. Indexing 19th century programmatic music, mid-’70s jazz, and a distinctively colourful and multi-dimensional approach to composition that embraces improvisation, Coverdale alloys synthesis with live instrumentation in a gesture of reconnection with land and body through sound. Approaching composition as a diagnostic methodology to spiritual ends, she conducts emotional resonance like currents of charge, hard-wiring the purely felt into electronic signals.

Though written and recorded on several continents, including at the GRM Studio in Paris and the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, From Where You Came was completed in rural Ontario, Canada. Featuring contributions from multidisciplinary sound artist and cellist Anne Bourne and trombonist Kalia Vandever, the album’s 11 expansive yet condensed compositions incorporate strings, woodwind, brass, keys, software and modular synthesis, inscribing a musical language that resonates animations with unfiltered, striking clarity. Coverdale's own voice melts into air amidst the enveloping swell of the album’s opening prelude: “Everything you know is real,” she sings on “Eternity,” “I’m sorry, life is beautiful… .” As though in response, oscillating vividly between animism and animalism, the album that follows is brimming with life in all its stunning complexity.

Reckoning with the experience of grief, dislocation, and the pressure of total freedom and independence, Coverdale yields supernatural capacity to alchemize tribulation into highly imaginative and inspiring fantasy epics of sound. In the piloted flight of “Daze,” wind choruses dance and twirl in ornate punctuated cycles as dissonant portamentos annotate modulatory ascent to soaring heights, gliding and churning across turbulent gails to new pockets of harmonic plateaus, stabilizing periodically through rhythmic gait for rest. It feels like the joy of flight. In other spiritual quests, sound becomes a feat of physics; physical and subterranean, material, and even destructive, amongst highland drone figures in “Freedom.” Melancholic restlessness and will-summoning entrench furtive flurries of energy on “Coming Around,” skittish, tacit, and reluctantly yearning chimes illuminate a granular “Problem of No Name,” and ecstatic, messy-haired catharsis blurts release through the drummed sample-based sequences of “Offload Flip.”

Each new narrative finds rootedness in a changing environment, giving a sense this is ecological adaptation made into music, as a way to navigate being in the world. Speaking directly to the rootlessness and alienation of modernity while processing the thrill and pain of being alive, From Where You Came draws immense strength through a commitment to material groundedness, from where we are able to view the scale of our own mythology, the worlds we want to build, and the stories we are determined to tell.

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released May 9, 2025

All compositions, recording, editing, and mixing by Kara-Lis Coverdale.
Produced by Kara-Lis Coverdale.
Executive Producer: Regina Greene.

Featuring Anne Bourne on Cello (“Eternity,” ”Flickers in the Air of Night,” “Coming Around”) and Kalia Vandever on Trombone (“The Ceremonial Entrance of Colour”).
Recorded at The Shop (Valens, ON) and Pumpkin House (St. George, ON), with the exceptions of “Problem of No Name” recorded at GRM Studio, Paris (Maison de la Radio et de la Musique - Radio France), and “Freedom” recorded at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm.
Mastered by Jay Hodgson.

Cover photo by Adam Feingold.
Art and sleeve design by Kaja Krakowian at Blank Blank.

Special thanks to Regina Greene, Anne Bourne, Kalia Vandever, Joakim Haugland, Robert and Tiina Coverdale, EMS, and GRM.

This record has been made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Kara-Lis Coverdale Brant, Ontario

Kara-Lis Coverdale creates music that transcends reality, interlocking several systems and languages through both electronic and acoustic mediums.

"...one of the most exciting young composers in North America." - The Guardian

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