Catch one of her four European tour dates this autumn.Ĭaterina Barbieri’s jaw-dropping album Patterns of Consciousness is more modular than drone, but this year’s Born Again in the Voltage expresses the Italian’s fondness for sustain. As well as working with Caterina Barbieri (more coming on her) and ambient techno maestro Acronym (collaborative album coming soon), releases like her forthcoming collection of organ music on iDEAL and the soon-to-be-reissued Organ Dirges 2016-2017 are as emotionally wrought as drone can get. She marvelled at how, due to strict rules imposed by the church, early modern musicians had found ways to hide messages and prophecies in their compositions. Working part-time tuning church organs in rural Sweden, Malone became fascinated by the different tuning systems she encountered, each of which seemed somehow to reflect the character of the surrounding community. Oliveros’s influence is clear, but Malone’s inspirations go back further than a few decades. Stockholm-based Kali Malone issued an ode to Pauline Oliveros last year through her label XKatedral, covering her 1970 composition To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation as conductor of the Golden Offence Orchestra.
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