Metanoia is the latest album by San Francisco based ambient atmospheric project Falling You who are celebrating 30 years of being helmed by John Michael Zorko, who on Metanoia worked with Courtney Grace, Slim Heilpern, Amelia Hogan, Anji Lum, Ryan Lum, Erica Mulkey, Colleen Hilker, Shikhee and Jennifer Wilde. Produced and composed by John Michael Zorko. Mixed by Ken Lee and Lovespirals and John Michael Zorko. Additional Production by Erica Mulkey and Lovespirals. Mastered by Robert Rich. This album is best accompanied by some flower tea, my pot contained Linden, Chamomile, Rose Petal, Althea, Corn Silk, Primrose and Melissa flowers.
The album opens with the slow blues wails of Throw The Stone ruminating on why you are walking alone, atmospheric guitars with echoes of KK Hammond or slow end of Opal, before the vocal ululating against the synths take this into a more ethereal space.
Demiurge (Momento Eorum) is latin incantations to the divine, chanted scripture and the slow deeply spiritual vocalising of the spirit, meditating the calm inner harmony your seeking, the sustained tones and calming sounds help you drift away.
Flesh To Tree has the sounds of a haunted copse, wind shimmering through the trees, desire being evoked by those who need flesh to be pressed against those tress, disgust never far from thoughts of sin and redemption slowly unfurling.
Alcyone sets its sights on the stratosphere, seeking comfort of a bright star in the far sky, atmospheric spaced guitars, tuning into the vibrations from Alcyone. spreading out across Pleiades, still trying to put right the offence they made to Zeus all those years ago, will Morpheus work his tricks once more. Evolving into a similar sepulchral space inhabited by Nero Kane.
Ari's Song isn't the Nico classic about her poor son, this Ari's Song is supremely calm, in tune with inner cadences and specifically channelled meditations. Inside The Whale sits Jonah turning rib bones into didgeridoo like resonating drones, cymbals brushed and vibrating, deep sea tonalities. An old clipper ships bows creak in the distance like thunderclaps. The lawns of doom approach, closing in towards Tarsus, the whale buttresses the clipper.
Ariadne a chilled ambient love song across the ages, drifting between Mork era Heidi Mortenson with the deepest somnambulantly opiated Hope Sandoval utterances, floating higher and higher towards the stars, stratospheric love.
They Give Me Flowers while you sat in the Ashram chanting to the spirits, carrying you across realms and worlds, temporal and astral, between love, lust, distain and hate murmurs, petals buds and blooms, dried crushed and made into tea, suffused with your tears, once you have been allowed to leave by the all controlling lord and mistress. Choral chants messages of renewal, survival and moving through to other spheres of influence. Lindens, lilacs, rosehip and lavender flowers helping to heal eternal wounds. Give her flowers, both while she lives and after she dies.
(Trying To Weave) A Thread of Happiness (From One Day To The Next) slow atmospheric drones chant away despair that creeps ever closer and unavoidable in these times, shake some white sage and dream of a happier world. Constellations are visited while you lay back staring into the night sky, trying to figure out what stars and Constellations are on view, how formations can vibrate and change your mood and feelings, your life's path caught on the wrong trail. Where will this journey take you.
The album closes with Philomena a slow dark wander through the ages, a supplication to a virgin martyr, hoping for a kinder appreciation in the next realm, wings to the next bardo, slowly gracefully flutter, while you glide across elides, strata to new manifestations.
Find out more at https://fallingyou.bandcamp.com/album/metanoia
