All Life Long (studio album) by Kali Malone

I know for sure that I still loved this when I first heard it, but after seeing it performed live my view on it has definitely change. It's one of the stranger live music experiences I've had. The bulk of the performance, as with the album, was made up of the organ pieces, but with the organ being at the back of the church that I was watching in it felt unnatural (and uncomfortable) to crane your neck round for an hour and instead you looked right in front of you, at the empty stage, at the window, at the people sat in front of you, it didn't matter, the experience still made it one of the least distracting environments I've been in. When I hear All Life Long now I get into a similar state, the album makes me contemplative as I focus on the slow moving and moody organ pieces. It's a little bit like the effect ambient music can have, but the music here is really too present to fit into that category. Instead you become very aware of every change and the music kind of carries you along. This is also true of the brass pieces, which are so nicely sequenced to work with the rest of the album, including the choral passages which are used sparingly enough to never break up the flow. Overall it adds up to 80 minutes which can pass by very, very quickly, that is if you're into 10 minute organ pieces (you should be).

Album Rating: 67.92
(815/12)

09.02.2024

Kali Malone (USA): All Life Long

1.Passage Through The Spheres 68
2.All Life Long (For Organ) 69
3.No Sun To Burn (For Brass) 68
4.Prisoned On A Watery Shore 69
5.Retrograde Canon 66
6.Slow Of Faith 64
7.Fastened Maze 68
8.No Sun To Burn (For Organ) 69
9.All Life Long (For Voice) 69
10.Moving Forward 68
11.Formation Flight 68
12.The Unification Of Inner & Outer Life 69

In order:

Kali Malone (ALL) - The Unification Of Inner & Outer Life 69
Kali Malone (ALL) - All Life Long (For Organ) 69
Kali Malone (ALL) - Prisoned On A Watery Shore 69
Kali Malone (ALL) - No Sun To Burn (For Organ) 69
Kali Malone (ALL) - All Life Long (For Voice) 69
Kali Malone (ALL) - Passage Through The Spheres 68
Kali Malone (ALL) - No Sun To Burn (For Brass) 68
Kali Malone (ALL) - Fastened Maze 68
Kali Malone (ALL) - Moving Forward 68
Kali Malone (ALL) - Formation Flight 68
Kali Malone (ALL) - Retrograde Canon 66
Kali Malone (ALL) - Slow Of Faith 64