Canadian composer and performer Kara-Lis combines her experience as a church organist with her experimental electronic tendencies to create new human-machine music.

Coverdale has spent her life immersed in music, from virtuosic piano recitals as a young child to her work as a church organist and MES mixed choir in Montreal. She’s well-versed in sacred music, and knows that the best composers were those with a desire to subvert norms and confront audiences with new sounds.

Her 2014 record Aftertouches used machinised organs and choirs to conjure a post-physical world, while last year’s Sirens, a collaboration with LXV, was full of rich, droning ambience. Like sacred music, this is music that is made to be experienced live.

‘One of the most exciting young composers in North America’ – The Guardian