Delphine Dora - As Above, So Below

For reasons too boring to repeat, we nearly missed this latest work of elemental wonder from the great and fittingly named, Delphine Dora, and give thanks to Recital godhead Sean McCann for righting our wrong and sending these final copies our way. Don't sleep like we did, for this is a significant work, a series of cascading piano-based compositions that expand around varying arcing drones, spoken word poeticism, and the staticy hiss of field recordings. The ambition of presentation means you can't quite consider these etudes, though that's what they might resemble on first run through. Intimate and grand in equal measure, as if Colette Roper suspended behind glass, As Above, So Below is an exhibition of elegance fit as much for ballrooms as bedrooms, making a graceful gesture towards its own understanding of the divine. Grandeur rarely sounds so delicately poised.