Elrond - Chrysalis: Music for Convalescence

$5.00 - $10.00

Elrond - Chrysalis: Music for Convalescence

$5.00 - $10.00

Elrond celebrates their Ninth release on CD via Portland label Medicine for a Nightmare. The new album, “Chrysalis: Music For Convalescence” is heavily inspired by healing from physical and emotional trauma, which both mourns and praises the process. Combining deep analog tones and dense pads woven together with jutting sequences, one can get lost, yet remain grounded in the electronic swells provided in this ambient excursion.

The album opens with Crystal Skiff, placing one immediately into a lush arpeggio driven trajectory accompanied by Vangelis inspired vocal pads, string synths, and lightly peppered field recordings that provide an immersive landscape preparing you for the rest of the record’s first half. With continuing warm yet driving sequences the next couple songs allow you to hold a more introspective undertone with “Through Quartz, Through Stone”. A piece that gives one the feeling of free falling into a deep collapsing cavern before landing softly with the final two tracks, “Cobbled Path” and “Stasis”. Songs heavily layered with plush synth patches and angelic reverb that one desires whilst meditating or invoking calm.

From start to finish “Chrysalis” is designed to allot the time and space to reflect on one’s journey in processing emotions; giving one the room to allow peace into the cluttered mind, while leaving room for inspiration and imagination to flourish.

Elrond is Ian Gorman Weiland and Vern Avola
Artwork by Ian Webb
Mastered by Tom Asselin