Cloudburst

Pantaleimon (pronounced "Pan-ta-lay-mon") is the adopted moniker of vocalist and composer Andria Degens. Sometimes collaborating with friends, though often alone, she creates beautifully haunting and meditative music.

Cloudburst, her first recording as Pantaleimon since 2002's Change My World, features four tracks of hypnotic vocal passages that together form a long conceptual piece, which, Degens says, "is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime, the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven and Earth."

Initially packaged with a limited, hand-printed edition of Degens's poetry and drawings, Cloudburs is now available as a proper CD release.