Landmarks offers an immersive, contemplative collaboration between Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli, presenting a suite of works that draw from both ancient and contemporary sound worlds. The duo’s backgrounds in historical keyboard and percussion performance anchor the album, but the project transcends specific genres or traditions. Instead, it crafts a patient, ambient landscape shaped by resonance, modest gesture, and a shared reverence for the act of attentive listening. Throughout the album, Clark and Ceccarelli make use of portative organs, historical temperaments, and an inventive range of percussion, yet never for the sake of nostalgia or strict period authenticity. What emerges is not a reproduction of “early music,” but a kind of sonic archaeology that welcomes both memory and imagination. The compositions favor slow unraveling, tonal ambiguity, and materials that accumulate weight like shifting geological forms - the metaphor of land with its plateaus and edges fits as much as any musical lineage.

Landmarks stands out for the way it dissolves boundaries between composed content and spontaneous dialogue. Clark’s sensitivity to touch and timbre finds an ideal counterpart in Ceccarelli’s palette of bells, drums, and found sounds, each musician allowing the acoustic properties of their instruments to inform and sometimes even override traditional roles. The pieces court both clarity and mystery, inviting the listener to linger in their textures and notice the subtle dialogue between sonic shape and silence. Collectively, the release feels like a meditation on musical place and presence: large, slow-moving masses are balanced by intimate details, and historical echoes coexist with contemporary experimentalism. The album as a whole enacts both a study in restraint and a celebration of potential - making it a rewarding listen for those drawn to the fertile borderlands between tradition and innovation, sound and space, memory and invention.