An apt title for a song that feels more like a sonic spell being cast, an ancient ritual being evoked, and Melas Leukos sounds more like an ethereal shaman channeling the choirs of our ancestors than a music maker in the more usual, modern sense.
But whilst the sounds are primal and powerful, they are also very much of the here-and-now, folktronic soundscapes that capture timeless tones in their digital net. And this blend of then and now, past and present, what was and what is, makes for an intoxicating melting pot of sound, one that is both familiar – in the sense that our collective souls have been listening to versions of this song since the dawn of humanity – and revelatory. Fresh, yet oh so familiar.
Drawn from folk traditions that feel older than civilization and alive with myth and memory, the song opens the door to Valiant One, her long-awaited first album. Eight years in the making, it carries the weight of endings and the fire of beginnings, the endless cycles that run, often unseen, through our lives. This is Melas Leukos’ private mythology made public—where the natural world speaks, the earth feels close, and unseen forces in the liminal spaces on the edges of modernity.
If ever a single made you want to know more instantaneously – made you hungry for more music, a bigger picture, sent you searching deeper into an artist’s sonic world, a world of portals to the past and portents for the future, this is it.
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