Mother of Pearl, by Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann

Mother of Pearl

by Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann

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Lars Gotrich There's a handheld camera aspect to this collaborative recording — hushed, creaking, intimate — that I found so very striking. I wasn't aware that these two experimental composers were a couple, but even so, you hear the tenderness between Sarah and Sean, in four-handed piano, guitar duos and chimed bells. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vikings-choice-guide-to-bandcamp-friday-nov-2021/ Favorite track: Lamplighter.

Ryan A perfect accompaniment for the changing of the seasons, these recordings of sound, space and silence create a gorgeous sense of time and place. Warm, intimate and inviting, this is an album where moments of melody combine with a magical otherness to cocoon and soothe.

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	1.	LA in the Rain 08:07
	2.	Or Something 01:12
	3.	Lamplighter 10:49
	4.	Keep Outside the Night 05:18
	5.	Band of Gold 08:58
	6.	Daniela 04:48

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Mother of Pearl is the first duo album from composers Sarah Davachi and Sean McCann. Two people, a couple, recording together at home. A slow, autumnal album made with no preconceptions or planning. Intimate, intended for ourselves.

Sessions were captured simultaneously in two ways to build the shared space of perception. Sculpted hesitations made late at night. Short statements of melody are left space to rest and repose. The presence of room tone and the air are characters in all of these recordings – weaving freely within the music.

Four-handed piano, two electric pianos, two guitars, viola, bells, tape. Golden hour, late night. The first recording sessions bookend the album, made in an afternoon in 2020.

Recorded at home in Glendale, California and at a farmhouse on Sean’s birthday, nearby goats and wine and a supersonic jet launch. Take refuge in pleasure.

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released November 5, 2021

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