Kal - Romology - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

40 Cal, of Harlem hip-hop juggernauts the Diplomats is on his hustle in a way that most rappers only talk about. Each Successive year has seen a greater level of recognition for the emcee, who came up through NYC's hyper-competitive battle and mixtape circuit before hooking up with one of the most influential crews in rap music. MOONGA, his debut album is built for repeated listens, in the tradition of worn out walkman rotation tapes. From blown out jeep beats to club bangers to reflective meditations on responsibility, MOOGA is the work of an artists on the come-up. Expect big things from one of rap music's new stars.

Kali Malone and Drew McDowall present Magnetism, their first collaborative album born from a decade-long friendship and ignited by a single day of creative synergy. When Malone stepped into McDowall's Brooklyn home studio, a shared vision immediately took root and set the course for a remarkable collaboration between these two singular artists.On Magnetism, Malone's poignant and evocative melodies manifest through McDowall's signature timbral synthesis, creating a unified voice that soars freely and radiates with vitality. Technically, the duo employs an exquisite blend of Karplus-Strong synthesis, distortion and just intonation. Kali and Drew embrace these tools with refined grace while moving fluidly within their musical framework. Charged by the magnetic pull of repetition, saturation, and resonance, Magnetism pulses as a living music that captivates the senses and lingers long in the mind after the final notes fade.

Music for Intersecting Planes marks the first collaborative between cellist Leila Bordreuil and organist Kali Malone. Minimal in means yet expansive in effect, the music unfolds like beads on a thread, punctuated by silence and deep breaths. Shifting currents of air pressure emerge from the manually pumped organ, enriched by the cello's finely drawn harmonics to form a microscopic and granular perspective of timbre. Interference patterns spin the sound mass as Malone and Bordreuil play against the stillness of sine waves. Church bells ring in the distance. Undulating feedback gives rise to insistent calls from the organ before yielding to a tragic cello motif. The album then closes with the brief and jubilant pizzicato exclamation, InchEndless Dance of Eternal Joy.InchRecorded by candlelight at the Temple de SaintThéoduoe in La Tour-de-Peilz in Switzerland, the music balances patience and intensity, composition and chance, severity and tenderness. In this collaboration, new facets of both artists come to light Bordreuil's playing with heightened tonal and formal clarity, and Malone's organ work in it's most raw and textural form. Music for Intersecting Planes is a meeting of minds honoring the timeless intrigue of acoustic phenomena.