Pantaleimon - Mercy Oceans (2007)
Artist: Pantaleimon
Album: Mercy Oceans
Label: Durtro, Jnana Records
Style: Drone, Neofolk
Year: 2007
Country: Canada
Quality: MP3, CBR 192 kb/s
Total Size: 46,8 MB
Pantaleimon is the solo work of Andria Degens, but she always has people who accompany her whispery, almost sad and gentle music, while she herself plays bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, or octave mandola, with a few touches of drones from harmonica, or tamboura. Participants are Baby Dee on harp, Keith Wood (Hush Arbors) on backing vocals or guitar, Isobel Cambell (Belle and Sebastian) on cello (drones), backing vocals, piano, glockenspiel, John Contreras on cello, Jerome Alexandre on guitar harmonics.
“Under the Water”, was the really nice, dreamy and magical song which appeared before on a single (see review of it up). Pantaleimon’s music is extremely dreamy and rather intuitive and moody, while the songs have rhythmical tones surrounding the songs like flowers in a garden around a statue or well of inspiration, colouring them with clear spring time sweetness, so that it overcomes completely any of the slow dreaminess being seen works as only sad moments. “All the birds” is just Adria on vocals and Appalachian dulcimer, spreading breathy calmness. More than one song contemplates with a certain hypnotic, meditative strength. Last track is just like a lullaby-goodbye. A moody and enjoyable gentle album.
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Credits:
Engineer — Colin Potter , Marcus Mackay
Engineer [Assistant] — Michael Lawrence
Mastered By — Denis Blackham
Producer — Michael Tanner
Producer, Written-By — Andria Degens
Notes:
Copies were available before the official release date from the Durtro website and at the Pantaleimon gig at the London Luminaire, October 26th 2007

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