Portrait Disc: KARST [2020]
karst survey (Klangforum Wien)
you actually are evaporating (Christopher Otto & Kevin McFarland)
KARST (Ensemblekollektiv Berlin)
purchase here: KAIROS
listen here: Spotify / Apple Music
Chosen as one of the New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of 2020
“[ …] superbly ear-scouring […]” -Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise
“[…]intimately varied, by no means monolithic, and each of these passages of enormous presence has its own constantly changing character, for McCormack remembers this, that music, unlike features of the landscape, is in motion.” -Paul Griffiths, “Record of the Week”
“En todo caso lo escuchado aquí […] tiene no poco de revelación; podemos estar delante de uno de los compositores más ambiciosos, valientes y quebrantadores de inercias de su generación.” -Ismael G. Cabral, El Compositor Habla
Additional reviews at Botho Straussian, MusicWeb International, MundoClassico, & Nieuwe Noten.
world-line [2019]
purchase here: Huddersfield Contemporary Records (listen on Spotify)
Included in Sequenza21’s Best Recordings of 2019!
“[…] a 30-minute pitch-black spiral down into slack strings and popping pickups. A seriously dark piece […]” -"Albums to look out for in 2020", Tim Rutherford-Johnson [ The Rambler ]
"[…] the amplified instrument is a stethoscope revealing the microsonorities hiding within ostensible noise. Throughout the disc, ELISION’s prodigious virtuosity pushes beyond itself to what lies on the other side: queer, strange, insatiable vitality.” - “Group Innovation,” Liam Cagney [Gramophone]
