ALBUM REVIEW: Kara-Lis Coverdale – From Where You Came

Smalltown Supersound

Released: 09.05.25

Canadian experimental composer Kara-Lis Coverdale has recorded four albums in 10 years. This is her first release for Oslo-based label Smalltown Supersound. It is a slow, stark record – 42 minutes of dark whispers and mournful prayers. If forests were to sing, perhaps they would sound like this – austerely beautiful.

Working in collaboration with cellist Anne Bourne and trombonist (and composer) Kalia Vandever, Coverdale has crafted an organic, vibrant sound which, however, never truly becomes warm. The album pays homage to the analogue days of electronic music, with one of the tracks recorded at the iconic GRM electro-acoustic music studio in Paris and another one at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm. Only the last pieces of the album hint at the lusher, playfully anarchic style which made Coverdale so special.