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PANTALEIMON
(pan-ta-lay-mon), the name of Lyra’s dæmon in Philip Pullman’s ‘Northern Lights’, is also the pseudonym of English musician and songwriter Andria Degens (that’s, dee-jens). Creating simple, haunting and beautiful music that floats like a distant galaxy, hanging somewhere in the cosmos between meditative purity and celestial psychedelia, it seems somehow fitting to know that Andria was born prematurely. Occupying an internal terrain between all things overtly tangible, Pantaleimon’s music plays out like an intuitive pilgrimage of the soul, replete with luminous shafts of hope and salvation. Her mostly instrumental debut album, ‘Trees Hold Time’ (1999), is a hypnotic, minimalist homage on Appalachian Dulcimer to two and half years of peregrination throughout Southeast Asia. Five years later, she found the ethereal accord of her voice to gild the impressionistic songs of her second album, ‘Mercy Oceans’, with hues of a simplistic and timeless tonality. “After ‘Trees Hold Time’, Degens reflects, “I felt I had nothing else to give to the world musically, but then the channel opened again and out came the material for ‘Cloudburst’ and ‘Mercy Oceans’.”
