cloudburst by pantaleimon
considering the origins of this track record at soundtrack respecting an showing and the degree important churchgoing themes surrounding it, you might be forgiven on retreating to your motley crue pre-eminent-of. but insult a insignificant deeper and you'll find pantaleimon have collaborated with wishes oldham, six organs of admittance, sixteen horsepower, resentful three and on current 93's majestic diabolical ships ate the profusely. all musical signposts on the roads they junkets.
cloudburst was originally an extremely limited publish of 105 copies, accompanying andria degan’s book of poems ‘peeling oranges into flowers’. unsurprisingly not convenient any more, those not jammy sufficiency to get the book can rarely be afflicted with cloudburst individually.
and it’s excellent in its own right.
you could call it society, appalachian dulcimer by road of eastern and european traditional music and recorded at the diving bell lounge in glasgow.
four tracks representing a spiritual rove from darkness to enlightenment. the three are na‹ve, , minimalist. most coy, pure intimate with an aura of stillness, a reflective (what else?) calm running through. the frizzled production and utilize of dulcimer, bouzouki and tambura create compositions that look chic yet could have been played 400 years ago. new genre; nu-renaissance anybody?
the highpoint of the cd is unmistakably numinosum - interpretation a ineffable wonder or religious encounter outside of oneself - an eight minute mini-jewel and the purely run to earth with vocals. haunting and ethereal with a droning mantra of suggest you’ll be store. it is utterly hypnotic.
