Ela Orleans - Circles of Upper & Lower HellCircles Of Upper and Lower Hell is the grandest, deepest work to date by Polish born, Glasgow based sound artist and composer Ela Orleans. The seventh album under her own name, Orleans' expansive vision, loosely based on Dante's Inferno but infused with deep personal experience, incorporates sound art, orchestral textures, synth pop and electronic music to construct a world equally peppered with loss and inspiration. Circles Of Upper and Lower Hell

performed by a similarly varied set of artists

Written alone to achieve a contrast with the previous album and return in a sense to the original approach

Sean and the High Llamas have crafted deft musical sketches with the signature 'Llamas' sound that has evolved over ten album releases since 1992

with the latter conducting an orchestra comprised of 46 string players and 16 brass for the studio recording

but it is a masterpiece of long-format insanity -- with Boris and Robin providing a context for the massive gallumping of the Serge

2LP Heavyweight vinyl reissue of UK‰۪s critically acclaimed trip-hop icons Portishead‰۪s studio album Third from 2008

Rhythm in the Sun

‰Û÷Concrete Love‰۪ comes off the back of three massive UK Top Ten albums

for every possible message

and Maureen Tucker

releasing his own material

Once again working with exclusive archive footage from the British Film Institute