Paraframe - Metropolis - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

The Future is what Pavel Khvaleev does … until perhaps he doesn’t. Are we about to shatter a decade-long universal truth? Well, a little bit. Pavel’s fifth longform takes both name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic Metropolis - a breathtaking vision of retro-modern grandeur, meeting expressionist dystopia, high above cloudscraping edifices and stark industrial backdrops. That however was as so close to a hundred years ago as to make little difference. Pavel, by contrast, only began work on his ‘Metropolis’ after the release of his last two studio albums (‘Inhale’ and ‘Exhale’) in 2021. To do so, he’s drawn on a wellspring of collaborators from the pool of actors, singers, songwriters and voice artists he’s built up over twenty years of film and musicmaking. To put that into ‘Metropolis’s context, it includes Ryan Masson (soon to be seen in season 2 of The Last of Us) and the recently Grammy nominated singer Haley Johnsen.

Tracklist

1. Bird Life (With Avis Vox)
2. Breathe
3. We Are the Only Ones
4. Mermaids
5. Solid Breaker (With Denton Thrift)
6. Panic
7. Feel It Now
8. Close To Me
9. Son of Earth
10. Radiance
11. The Secret Place
12. Move

Label: Black Hole | Origin: Holland