Wind instruments meet animal recordings and synthesizers on Ora Clementi’s new LP

Exploring ideas of utopia through ethereal sonics.

Ora Clementi — Crys Cole and James Rushford’s collaborative project — are releasing a new album called Sylva Sylvarum, via Black Truffle this July.

Recorded together across the space of several months in Melbourne, the duo placed chiming bells, wind instruments and field recordings of animals in conversation with synthesizers, drum machines and vocal harmonies.

Sylva Sylvarum by Ora Clementi

Sylva Sylvarum draws on an array of literary descriptions of utopia, with the album acting as “an invitation to inhabit otherworldly spaces.”

It follows Black Truffle’s release of Paul DeMarinis’ Songs Without Throats collection — one of our favourite records of July so far.

Pre-order Sylva Sylvarum here in advance of its 23rd July release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

2. Umbrella Spinner

3. Dialogue Between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain

4. Vulning

5. Lathe Of Heaven

6. Sirin

7. Nowhere Much Narrower

8. Charioteers

9. Milk Street

10. Magic Mountain

11. Ophir

12. Paradigm and Places

13. Threadneedle

14. Ferae

15. Forest of Materials