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Gave in Rest

by Sarah Davachi

Matins 00:00 / 08:29
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1.
Auster 08:35
2.
Third Hour 07:37
3.
Evensong 05:27
4.
Matins 08:29
5.
Gloaming 05:41
6.
Gilded 03:30
7.
Waking 03:19

about

Released (LP) September 2018 by Ba Da Bing

Composed and mixed by Sarah Davachi

Recorded April and July 2017 at Hotel2Tango in Montréal QC, engineered by Howard Bilerman

Additional overdubs recorded at home in Los Angeles in November and December 2017

Performed by Sarah Davachi (flute, Mellotron, organs, piano, synthesizer, voice), Thierry Amar (contrabass), Terri Hron (recorder), Jessica Moss (violin), Lisa McGee (voice)

Mastered by Sean McCann
Photography by Dicky Bahto

From Ba Da Bing:
Sarah Davachi has quickly risen in prominence since her first release five years ago, and Gave In Rest represents her highest artistic achievement. By infusing her compositional style within a predilection for medieval and Renaissance music, Davachi unearths a new realm of musical reverence, creating works both contemplative and beatific, eerie yet essentially human. Gave In Rest is a modern reading of early music, reforming sacred and secular sentiments to fit her purview and provide an exciting new way to hear the sounds that exist around us.
Between January and September of 2017, Sarah Davachi lived in flux; storing her belongings in Vancouver, she spent the summer in Europe, occasionally performing in churches and lapidariums and seeking respite from her transitional state while surrounded by such storied history.

“I’ve always been a pretty solitary person, but that summer I discovered quiet moments to be increasingly valuable,” says Davachi. “I became engaged in private practices of rest and rumination, almost to the point of ritual.” Though not religious, she sought ecclesiastic environments, sitting for hours in muted spaces and listened to how church instruments augmented them – their pipe organs, their bells, their choral voices – and resolved to “tap into that way of listening.”

Davachi went deeper into studying early music over that summer, considering how Renaissance musicians experimented with new instruments...  more

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released September 14, 2018

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