Ela Orleans - Circles of Upper and Lower Hell (2016)

Tracklist

08. Circle One
09. Sunlit Hill
01. 0Abyss
01. 1Tower
01. 2Beatrice
01. 3Calaphas
01. 4The Great Barrier
01. 5Ghosts and Whispers
01. 6Thorn Tree
17. The Heretics
18. Centaurs
19. Minotaur
20. Dionysus
21. Ring Two
22. Geryon
23. Phlegethon Woods
24. The Burning Sand
25. The Well


Circles of Upper and Lower Hell is the grandest, deepest work to date by Polish-born, Glasgow-based sound artist and composer Ela Orleans. From her beginnings inaugurating a lo-fi, homespun style that has since developed fully into a language uniquely her own, from tentative live outings featuring multiple instruments to a now-masterly command of sound, Orleans has become one of the most consistently surprising musicians of the global underground. The seventh album under her own name, this expansive vision, loosely based on Dante's Inferno but infused with deep personal experience, incorporates sound art, orchestral textures, synth pop and electronic music to construct a world equally peppered with loss and inspiration. It pulls all the strands of Orleans' previous work together into an epic depiction of turmoil wide in scope but reveling in detail. The album documents a far more personal approach to conventional songwriting. The album's massive, cinematic scope incorporates rumbling synth textures escalating into celestial harmonies sparkling alongside shimmering melodies crackling with the sort of pathos that Orleans has made her recognizable trademark.

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