I try, I really do, to pick music that my dear friend Stephen Mejias has not covered in his weekly #NewMusicFriday column because there’s so much great new music I don’t want to make it seem otherwise. Sometimes, an exception is made.
I’ve talked about Kali Malone before, as recently as Living Torch, her album from July of last year, as well as 2019’s The Sacrificial Code where we find Kali Malone seated at a number of different church organs, which you can think of as her home base. Here, on Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Malone’s instrument(s) of choice are sine wave oscillators and she’s joined by Stephen O’Malley (of Sunn O)))) on electric guitar and Lucy Railton on Cello for 5+ hours of evisceratingly lovely, painfully beautiful, music.
As an admitted football fan, the notion of plopping myself down for 5 hours of focus on a single thing is common behavior, as it is for however many _illions of football fans are out there (both kinds). So it’s a little bit funny, at least to me, that some people may balk at a 5-hour investment in a single piece of music (don’t tell La Monte Young!).
If you’ve ever had the desire for your entire being to be kneaded like dough, gently pushed, pulled, and reshaped, find the time for Does Spring Hide Its Joy.