Rosea

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 a 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.