Kali Malone presents a second preview of her forthcoming album, Burning Song with the new song and album closer, ‘My Eve My Dawn.’
‘My Eve My Dawn,’ represents a clear vision of this process; foregrounding the cohesion between endings and beginnings, it moves through passages of sadness and joy, the linking tones offering a sense of continuity, and thus of acceptance.
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Burning Song arrives via Ideologic Organ digitally on October 30th with the LP & CD version arriving on November 13th.
Burning Song, Malone’s first new album of solo compositions since 2024’s All Life Long, marks a transformation in her compositional approach towards a process that is more intuitive and direct. Moving through endings and beginnings, reflection and foresight, the music of Burning Song hovers in the moment just before understanding, where revelation lives.
The album was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where J.S. Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life; his body rests beneath the sanctuary. Malone is the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach Organ, an instrument completed in 2000 but with bespoke tuning and temperament systems based on historical norms of the baroque period.
Throughout Burning Song, Malone is joined by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O’Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, the same trio that honed a profound connection through the development of Malone’s 2023 work Does Spring Hide Its Joy. The trio moves as one through passages that are alternately ambiguous and radiant, at times triumphant as the tones rise towards the organ’s upper register. By discarding canon form, which has dominated much of Malone’s organ work, there is a clear sense of freedom that allows these pieces to unfold more gradually and speak more declaratively than ever before.
Live dates 2026
Fri. Oct. 9 – Venice, IT @ Chiesa di Santa Maria de Nazareth ^
Sun. Oct. 11 – Bern, CH @ Berner Münster [bee-flat] ^ tickets
Sun. Nov. 22 – Stockholm, SE @ Stockholm City Hall [City Hall of Stockholm] ^ tickets
Sun. Nov. 29 – Bratislava, SK @ Novy evanjelicky kostol [NEXT Festival] ^ tickets
Burning Song Live 2027
Mon. Jan. 25 – Berlin, DE @ Gedächtniskirche [CTM] # tickets
Tues. Jan. 26 – Berlin, DE @ Gedächtniskirche [CTM] # tickets
Thu. Jan. 28 – London, UK @ St. Martin [Baba Yaga’s Hut presents] # tickets
Fri. Jan. 29 – London, UK @ St. Martin [Baba Yaga’s Hut presents] # tickets
Sun. Jan. 31 – Geneva, CH @ Madeleine Chapel (Espace de la Madeleine) [Festival Antigel] # tickets
Sun. Feb. 28 – Basel, CH @ Pauluskirche [Festival Interfinity] # tickets
Thu. April 1 – Sun. April 4 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears # tickets
Thu. Apr. 8 – San Francisco, CA @ Grace Cathedral [The Lab Presents] #
Sat. Apr. 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ First Congregational Church [Upend Presents] # tickets
Mon. Apr. 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ First Unitarian Church [LPR Presents] #
Tues. Apr. 13 – Brooklyn, NY @ First Unitarian Church [LPR Presents] #
Fri. Jun. 4 – Helsinki, FI @ Temppeliaukio Church [We Jazz Presents] # tickets
* = Electronic set
^ = Solo organ set
# = Burning Song set
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