Panoptikon

by Maria W Horn

Panoptikon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 February 2024
  • Label: XKatedral
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 30:15
  • Community rating: 3.18/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The innovative Swedish composer constructs a terrifyingly suspenseful, deeply sombre conceptual suite exploring themes of institutional control and isolation. Anchored by breathtaking polyphonic choral chants layered over suffocatingly heavy electronic drones, the music is overwhelmingly atmospheric and profoundly hypnotic. It is a stunning, intensely calm, and emotionally devastating exercise in modern holy minimalism.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, atmospheric, choral

Tracklist

  1. Omnia Citra Mortem (13:45)
  2. Haec Est Regula Recti (7:44)
  3. Panoptikon (5:55)
  4. L盲ngtans Vita Duva (2:49)

Credits

  • David 脜hl茅n - performer [singer], vocal
  • Sara Fors - performer [singer], vocal
  • Sara Parkman - performer [singer], vocal
  • Vilhelm Bromander - performer [singer], vocal
  • Traditional - written-by [trad. n盲rke]

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