With Bakis Sirros' Parallel Worlds we have to expect the unpredictable in all of its surprising magnificence. Begun in 2008 and worked by e-mails and the magic of Internet with Alio Die and India Czajkowska, Circo Divino is a strange mystic reverie where the listener is constantly dog between the unreality, the quietude of mystery’s inconsistency and the enchanting beauty of odes from a fantasy world. An imaginary world with goblins, ghosts and trolls who cavort in a soundforest with paths which criss-cross in a delicious hybrid musical world where the ambient mood crosses slow and heavy rhythms under a panoply of tones as much mystifying as heterogeneous, even eclectic, awaking and renewing the imagination as well as the delight in each listening. A hypnotic wave with slow undulations which soak in a shimmering ambiance opens "Lost Fractales". This first title reflects the mood which reigns all over Circo Divino. The rhythm is fuzzy and its evolution is in constant progression thanks to the intensity of movements. The frame of mind is ambient but not completely atonal with this passive rhythm which remains constantly suspended. The listener is under the spell of a sound wealth of the most original where chants of mi-girl and mi-women are floating around a sound background at once caustic and metallic. It’s a strangely rich musical universe that bends under the weight of its harmonies hiding beneath his uncountable carillons tinkling, discovering a world of prisms tones and chords of guitars lost in a mist of glass, discreet and effective percussions and modular movements as much abstract as heterogeneous which create an efficient dramatic tangent. The title-track sounds like a strange cerebral western with its undulations that imitate the approach of a lonesome cowboy. A cowboy who crosses a somber valley of which the narrow musical paths are filled with sonorities that throws a night-terror. The rhythm is always so hazy. It floats among an atonal infernal world where tones rattlers and winds of ether. The windmill undulations and the aboriginal spectral waves rush into a fanciful world where the power of sounds prevails over a structure built on a maelstrom slowly dreaming and of which the obscur and frantic knocks of veiled percussions are drumming slowly under a dark sky streaked by howling and metallic strata. It’s cinema for ears!

More lively "Nuvole di Palissandro" beats beneath beautiful enveloping strata of a synth, that is warmer and flutier, in a sound ambiance just as much mysterious. We have the vague impression of being buried in a cave stuffed with thick morphic clouds. Doubtless the most melodious title of “Circo Divino”. "Sorinel" bathes in a sonorous unreality with heavy pulsations of which the accelerated pulse is beating around furtive whispers and the somber oscillations of a metallic synth, plunging the listener into a delicious sound paranoia. A little bit as on "Lost Fractales", the tempo is broken and oscillates under crystalline prisms and notes of guitars emerging out of a sinister sound swamp where the dispersed voices of India Czajkowska glide towards a soft insanity which wiggles under the pulsations and the intense frantic suctions of a synth to muddy tones. As its naming indicates it "Electrostatic Forest" is gobbled up by tones of twinkling prisms, shaping an electrostatism spectral aura in a cave filled by countless crystal droplets. It’s without a doubt the quietest track of Parallel Worlds' last musical madness. "Slide of Grace" concludes Circo Divino in the same way that "Lost Fractales" had started it. It’s a long arrhythmic track where the tempo remains indecisive and finds its assizes beneath these strange percussion/pulsations which scatter the rhythmic trail of Circo Divino. The ambiance is always so twisted with its tones of glasses which merge to the heavy drones with sustained reverberations, mixing the modular breaths of a sometimes harmonious and sometimes abstracted synth that hovers in an always heterogeneous universe whose harmonies glean here and there within the reach of intuitive ears.

In the experimental ambient genre, Circo Divino remains what is made of better! Bakis Sirros, Alio Die and India Czajkowska unite their experimental sound perceptions to offer another kind of ambient music. An atmospheric music where the rhythm gets play by the intensity of the modulations and the enchantment of countless sonority which invariably draw strange arcs and modulations that hook the hearing and command new listening. It’s a whole fascinating musical world unique to Bakis Sirros' perseverance and audacity for his constant quest for new tones and of which the fusion with the master of drones that is Alio Die can only give surprising results. Circo Divino is an album at the measure of its musical fascination for fans of sound and musical experiments because beyond all these perceptions, the approach of Parallel Worlds remains inexplicably harmonious. -Sylvain Lupari