Rosea album cover
Rosea

Ora

1996
Hic Sunt Leones

On Rosea, the Ora line-up is close to a who’s-who of the British post-Industrial underground – Andrew Chalk, Darren Tate, Jonathan Coleclough and Colin Potter all contribute, along with free improvising saxophonist Lol Coxhill. It’s no surprise, then, that Rosea plays out like a rolodex of possibilities. There are itchy, tactile, textural improvisations; deep, sonorous bell-tones that shiver and shimmer; mysterious field recordings that can’t be pinned down, which gives them an uniquely evocative sense of ‘no place.’ The title track is where it all comes together, with clanks and clangs submerged under layers of moss and peat, a geological drift.

Jon Dale

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