Listen to the latest instrumental album 'Up With The Moon'
Andria Degens is a singer song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has been creating music as Pantaleimon for over a decade. She plays guitar, keyboards, Indian harmonium, Appalachian dulcimer, and utilises samples, field recordings and voice.
She released her first Pantaleimon album, "Trees Hold Time," in 2000. This record established her in the alternative music scene with her hauntingly beautiful soundscapes and meditative sonic tapestries. Over the next few years, she released several more albums including "Mercy Oceans" (2001), the remix album “Heart of the Sun" (2004) - featuring remixes by Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Stephen O’Malley - and EP “Tall Trees”(2007).
Then in 2013 came stand out psych-folk album "The Butterfly Ate The Pearl", which featured Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, James Blackshaw, and was co-produced with Hugo Race (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds). This album received wide recognition in the press and media, especially in the USA.
Andria took some space and time away from music for personal reasons after the making of “The Butterfly Ate The Pearl”. And while Pantaleimon's signature sound has remained true, her recent Appalachian dulcimer instrumentals, ‘The Conversation' and ‘To The In Between' from the new album “ Up With The Moon” (2023) reveal a refined return to the minimalism of her early works, once again weaving magic through music with the power to transport listeners to otherworldly realms of dream like states of being.
