Ordalias

Ordalias marks the first solo album by Ian Mason, lead singer of the well-known Basque Country heavy doom rock act The Wizards. Within this precious double LP work, you can find thirteen selections of dark and psychedelic folk in the way of bands like Wovenhand, Swans, or Death In June with lyrics involving matters such as spirituality, Christian mysticism and the symbolist poetry of authors like Yeats, Blake, Goethe or Novalis. Ordalias is a magical vessel used to connect with Ian Mason ́s unique cosmovision. This collection of songs, has been conjured from the depths of the subconscious world over a period of five years, by meditation sessions and magical operations in which as a result, the musician has found the visions and ecstatic images that became the songs which conforms Ordalias in its entirety. All of this has been packaged with a delicate handcrafted work for the visual look of the album. Seven drawings from the Illustrator Nerea Kndina and the final graphic deign, done by Babylon Fell designs studio, takes Ordalias a step further away from other similar works and releases. A work which looks beyond the music, a true appeal to the strength of the vision and the inner voice.