Espvall, Helena “Nimis & Arx” [Fire Museum / Pax Recordings]

Laborious avant classical sawing cello action slits the throat. The spirit escapes through the slash wound to gather its surroundings. Faintly whispering strings moan & mourn. Moving forward beyond death’s door finds us hovering through ethereal alter realities both foreign & stunning. Serene Central Asian recorder glides smoothly over plink & pluck harp tones and deeply chilling audio manipulations. Venial violoncello sins are cleansed and pronounced purgatorial sounds flicker down vaulted marble corridors. Lamenting liturgical litanies grieve out from Espvall’s inspired instruments. Her angelic voice sobs softly, frustrated and torn over death’s bittersweet invitation into the afterworld. Rather than embrace Heaven or take the straight line leading to Hell, her tormented ghost climbs from the crypt, clinging to an empirical realm where she wails woeful cello psalms and semi-disturbing haunted hymns. This might just creep you out as well as offer strange comfort. 3WR: Devotion Through Damnation.

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