Sarah Davachi has detailed a new album. The L.A.-based Canadian composer will share The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir on September 13 via her Late Music imprint.
Written between 2022 and 2024, the seven compositions that make up The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir are said to form a conceptual suite observing "the mental dances that we construct to understand acts of passage."
The album also engages two references to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus: Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, a collection of poems from 1922, and Monteverdi's l'Orfeo, an early baroque opera from 1607.
"Possente Spirto," arriving alongside today's announcement, is a loose conceptual reference to an aria of that latter work. Emphasizing brass and strings, you can hear the composition below.
The Head as Form'd finds Davachi playing Mellotron, electric organ (the Korg CX-3), synthesizer (the Prophet 5 and Korg PS-3100) and, of course, four different pipe organs.
Joining Davachi on the album are Andrew McIntosh (viola), Mattie Barbier (trombone), Lisa McGee (mezzo-soprano), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da gamba) and Eyvind Kang (viola d'amore), as well as Rebecca Lane (bass flute), Sam Dunscombe (bass clarinet), Michiko Ogawa (bass clarinet), M.O. Abbott (trombone) and Weston Olencki (trombone) of the Harmonic Space Orchestra (winds).
Davachi will celebrate the album's release with select performances this fall, and while there are no Canadian dates at this time, you can find further details via her official website.
Pre-order The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir.
The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir:
1. Prologo
2. Possente Spirto
3. The Crier's Choir
4. Trio For A Ground
5. Res Sub Rosa
6. Constants
7. Night Horns