Perelandra, by Noctopolis

Perelandra

by Noctopolis

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1.	The Cottage 05:08	buy track
2.	Traveller 03:56	buy track
3.	Mountainous Oceans 04:52	buy track
4.	Rootless Soil 04:22	buy track
5.	Island (album version) 04:52	buy track
6.	The Green Lady 04:10	buy track
7.	Arriving Foe 05:22	buy track
8.	UnHuman 04:37	buy track
9.	Over Dark Waters 06:44	buy track
10.	Madness of the Night 04:55	buy track
11.	Up On High 03:10	buy track
12.	Ending Theme 03:58	buy track

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"Perelandra" is the second full-length installment in the series of three imaginary soundtracks loosely based on C S Lewis' Space Trilogy, written in the 1930s and 40s. The music is connected to themes and narrative in the second novel, Perelandra, which was originally published in 1943.

The "Perelandra" music is warmer, fussier and more humid than the stony, cold and somewhat retro sci-fi music available on the predecessor. That´s both intentional and accidental, since the core sound of this album is pre-dominantly built on improvisations on the Ciat-Lonbarde modular wooden synths. With their organic quirks and unpredictabilities, their characteristics serves the novel´s jubilant, lavish themes of growth and creation very well.

At the same time there are more sinister themes on this album, since "Perelandra" presents one of the author´s most devilish, tragic characters, as well as a very literal struggle with outer and inner evil. This is an album both tumultuous and soothing.

Release: November 27th 2020

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released November 27, 2020

Improvisation, composition, performance (Ciat-Lonbarde instruments, Lyra 8, HyveSynth, Folktek Mescaline, percussion, electric guitar, field recordings, analogue synthesizers, programming and software instruments) by Noctopolis. Recorded and mixed February-November 2020.

All photos, texts and layout by Mattis Hencke.

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