Kali Malone - 2 Show Pass

A London concert by American minimalist, drone and electroacoustic composer Kali Malone, joined by cellist Lucy Railton and Stephen O'Malley on acoustic guitar, drawing on the album Burning Song at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Kali Malone is an American composer and musician working across minimalism, drone and electroacoustic music. Born in Denver in 1994, Malone has been active since 2014. This London presentation brings Malone together with Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O'Malley, known from Sunn O))), on acoustic guitar, with lighting design by Charlie Hope.

Burning Song is Malone's first new album of solo compositions since All Life Long, from early 2024, and it is written for pipe organ, cello and guitar. It reflects a more intuitive and direct approach to composing, in which each piece unfolds linearly and the pieces are linked by subtle bridging tones. The trio previously worked together on Does Spring Hide Its Joy, and the programme also includes selected compositions from Malone's extensive organ catalogue.

The music moves through slow successions of chords, with passages that alternate between ambiguous and radiant, at times rising towards the upper register of the organ. Malone sets aside canon form, which has shaped much of the organ work, so the pieces unfold more gradually. The evening takes place at St Martin-in-the-Fields, a church on Trafalgar Square that mainly hosts concerts.