Agalma is a Electronic album by Drew McDowall, originally released in 2020. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Ambient & Downtempo
- cavernous
- eerie
- nocturnal
About
Veteran NYC based Scottish electronic musician Drew McDowall's latest work is his loftiest, most liturgical, and least industrial outing to date — and potentially the apex of his recent discography. Named after an ancient Greek word for votive offering, Agalma exudes a hooded, devotional aura, creaking and keeling under vast rafters of stone, stained glass, and shredded wires. It's a music of majesty and mystery but also modernity, McDowall's refined modular system shape-shifting strings, piano, pipe organ, and choral masses into disorienting synthetic mirages of the sacred. He cites the intersection of “joy, terror, and the elegiac” as a centering .
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Tracklist
- 1Agalma I (Folding)6:04
- 2Agalma II (feat. Caterina Barbieri)5:04
- 3Agalma III (Beacon) [feat. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe]5:23
- 4Agalma IV (feat. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe)3:25
- 5Agalma V (feat. Kali Malone)7:30
- 6Agalma VI5:48
- 7Agalma VII (Toyor El Janeh)9:08
- 8Agalma I (feat. Maralie Armstrong-Rial)6:09
- 9Abandoned Object3:11
- 2.1Agalma II (feat. Caterina Barbieri) [Demo]5:05
- 2.2Mbcst4:45
- 2.3Agalma VII (demo)4:38
- 2.4Agalma V (demo)6:28
Credits
Performers
- Justin FryeDOUBLE BASS
- Marilu DonovanHARP
- Adam MarkiewiczVIOLIN
- Caterina BarbieriFEATURING
- Robert LoweFEATURING
- Kali MaloneFEATURING
- Bashar SuleimanFEATURING
- Elvin BrandhiFEATURING
- MSYLMAFEATURING
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold