Torem

Shamanic couple Natasha ‘Baba Yaga’ and Anatoly Pakhalenko bring you another haunting Siberian offering with Torem. It’s an invitation to the stories and cosmology of their land, through dark mysticism, ancient percussive rhythms and singing in the languages of old.

Torem (Great Sky) opens with the sound of birds over the expanse. Indeed, the album is named after a place where the souls of people and animals are reborn as birds.

The shamanic journey then turns to atmospheric horns and chants of ritual and progresses with the ancient drums and throat-singing of ‘Risu Raknar’. The jaw harp and lyre continue to draw you in to learning from the wisdom of the Great Spirit. The cinematic expanse and intensity of the songs swell and retreat as you drift in and out of ceremony with eerie vocals, synth drones, hypnotic drums and tones.

As the spiritual adventure continues, the intensity and intention grow; field recording, horns, jaw harp, throat-singing and shamanic, driving drums guide and collide.

The album is a mystical Siberian journey, with the songs connecting nature, mythology, history and culture through storytelling, haunting and atmospheric melodies, and meditative dark grooves.