Stockholm-based US composer Kali Malone is best known for her unfurling works for the pipe organ, a standby of church shock and awe increasingly deployed in irreligious contexts. The Sacrificial Code, her 2019 album, broke Malone – an elegant but austere minimalist – out to the wider drone music scene.
Other instruments have long counterpointed her output however – such as the synth, sax and the boite à bourdons (drone box) of 2022’s Living Torch, an organ-free zone. Doom guitarist Stephen “Sunn O)))” O’Malley and a cellist featured on Does Spring Hide Its Joy (2023); Malone’s sixth album is on O’Malley’s label.
