Kali Malone Announces New Album Burning Song and Lead Single

Kali Malone has announced her new solo album, Burning Song, which serves as the follow-up to her 2024 release All Life Long. Alongside the announcement, the composer shared the lead single, “Heavy With Fruit.” The album features guitarist Stephen O’Malley and cellist Lucy Railton, the same trio that collaborated on Malone’s 2023 project, Does Spring Hide Its Joy.

The recordings for Burning Song took place at Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany. This site is notable as the church where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as cantor for 27 years and remains his final resting place. Malone performed on the church's Bach Organ, a modern instrument constructed using baroque tunings and temperament. The tracklist for the LP includes seven compositions: “Grieving Figure,” “Map the Path,” “Bells on a Branch,” “Crawling Ashore,” “Sounding a Void,” “Heavy With Fruit,” and “My Eve My Dawn.”

This new solo work follows a period of frequent collaboration for Malone. Recently, she released Magnetism with Drew McDowall and Music for Intersecting Planes with Leila Bordreuil. Her 2019 album of pipe organ compositions, The Sacrificial Code, was also reissued last year through the label Ideologic Organ.

Malone will support the release with a European tour featuring various performance formats. The schedule begins with an electronic set at Culgurest in Lisbon on September 23, followed by a show at St. Gertrud in Cologne on September 26. Solo organ performances are set for the Berner Münster in Switzerland on October 11 and the NEXT Festival in Bratislava on November 29. In January 2025, she will perform dedicated Burning Song sets at St. Martin in London on January 28 and 29, followed by a date at the Madeleine Chapel in Vernier on January 31.