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Release Date: 2021-05-28Label: Late Music
A boxset compiling the series of inter-related releases that Late Music put out in 2020 - the double studio album Cantus, Descant, the two-disc live set Figures In Open Air, and Laurus, an extended EP of early sketches for the music fully realised on 'Cantus, Descant'. Five discs in individual card wallets with 16-page accompanying booklet that details the compositional and recordings aspects of each release, housed in a rigid slipcase.The boxset was marketed as "Cantus Figures Laurus" on Bandcamp, however this shortened title doesn't appear anywhere on the release.
The catalog number appears only on the barcode sticker and CD matrixes.
CANTUS, DESCANT:
Electric organ, piano, Mellotron, voice, synthesizer, and strings recorded October and November 2019 at Alms Vert in Los Angeles, California, USA
Van Straten pipe organ (1479), set to quarter-comma meantone; recorded August 2019 at Orgelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands, bellows by Hans Fidom
E.M. Skinner pipe organ (1928); recorded June 2019 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Casavant Frères pipe organ (1964); recorded August 2017 at Pacific Spirit United Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Poul-Gerhard Andersen pipe organ (1975); recorded March 2019 at Sankt Johannes Kirke in Copenhagen, Denmark
Story & Clark reed organ (ca 1890); recorded February 2019 at The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, USA
FIGURES IN OPEN AIR
Live in Berlin: 21 March 2019, Roter Salon, Berlin, Germany
Ruminant (Version): 30 August 2017, Pacific Spirit United Church, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Casavant Frères pipe organ, 1964)
Live in San Francisco (Excerpt): 3 March 2018, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA
Live in Chicago: 5 October 2019, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Chicago, IL USA (E.M. Skinner pipe organ, 1928)
Canyon Walls (Instrumental): 27 October 2019, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Story & Clark reed organ, ca 1890)
Diaphonia Basilica (Version): 19 September 2018, Église du Gesù, Montréal, QC, Canada (Casavant Frères pipe organ, 1954)
LAURUS:
Featuring the Casavant Frères pipe organs of Chapelle Saint-Louis in Montréal, QC, Canada (1916) and Pacific Spirit United Church in Vancouver, BC, Canada (1964)