Oratorio For The Underworld

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calumpaton Ode to Sophie Schnell = PYUR , Oratorio for the Underworld
Your Music is always with Me as I walk through the City, by distant shores by roaring seas
Through Magestic Gardens amongst Mighty Trees, as I behold Distant Skies and Sunsets gifted and painted for Me , To Circle Great Galleries , as colours spin before My eyes and those moments with respect I cry. Favorite track: Manta Ride.

Peter Hollo Oh my goodness, this is so well done. Boisterous beats with heavy bass that lets the music sit comfortably in the deconstructed club context, but the strings and keyboards (and even vocals) often reference classical composition in various ways - not just as sample sources but as a kind of genre slippage. Will reward many listens. Favorite track: Rose Born.

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1.	Deep City 04:13		buy track
2.	Flowers And Silvers 05:06
3.	Manta Ride 05:10		buy track
4.	Towers Of Nebula 07:18		buy track
5.	Delphos 05:38		buy track
6.	Rose Born 07:15		buy track
7.	Cheperer 03:46		buy track
8.	The White Books 06:37		buy track
9.	Solar Barque Blues 02:48		buy track
10.	Zero Dead Ends 03:30		buy track
11.	Sun On Earth 08:10		buy track
12.	Under Cavelights 02:33	info	buy track
13.	Panorama 06:02	info	buy track
14.	Age Of The Lily 04:25	info	buy track
15.	Jumping Trails 02:09	info	buy track
16.	All Others Within Us 04:30	info	buy track
17.	Stone Hatcher 03:32	info	buy track
18.	Winged Flux 03:22	info	buy track

about

Munich’s PYUR (Sophie Schnell) makes her Subtext
debut with “Oratorio for the Underworld”, a nimble
odyssey through vivid, otherworldly dreams.
Growing up immersed in her family’s work as
shamans, Schnell draws on the techniques and
stories of her upbringing, through which ephemeral
forms, stories and colours seep into her sound—a
synthesis of hyperreal sound design, dramaturgy and
classical composition.

PYUR’s fascination with the space between life and
death is expressed through the weaving together of
the organic and sublime in a dramatic exercise in
expansive sonic worldbuilding.

The LP is a form of storytelling in which Schnell
reimagines and takes on the roll of psychopomp,
ushering the listener into a borderless realm. She
relays rich legends while warm, airy timbres (courtesy
of cellist Teresa Alvarez and violinist Juan Zalba
Fuentes) serve as guides throughout.

Working largely in isolation over a period of two
years, Oratorio for the Underworld is a document
of “inward archaeology,” and marks an intimate
yet grandiose journey through the psyche,
exploring the ecstatic emotional boundaries
between life and death, and body and spirit. Over
the two year period, Schnell constantly found
herself inventing new and unconventional
compositional techniques with which to keep her
writing dynamic—a process key in countering her
own obsession with the mythos of Oratorio.

The Bandcamp version of this album contains seven tracks not available elsewhere.

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released October 10, 2019

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