SINGULAR Glasgow-based Polish composer Ela Orleans crowns a majestic year with her sumptuous, haunted festive single Christmas Fell Away. Earlier this year her Circles Of Upper Hell album was shortlisted in the final selection of the SAY Awards, and at Glasgow’s Centre For Contemporary Arts she recently performed the world premier of her new score for Cowards Bend The Knee by Canadian cinematographer and installation artist Guy Madden. Heavenly and bleak, Christmas Fell Away is inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and available via Parental Guidance Records at bit.ly/ElaParentalGuidance
“It will not make you go shopping, like the other carols,” says Orleans. “It may make you buy canned food and blankets and first aid kits instead and get ready for Armageddon. Happy winter.”
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