Pantaleimon

Pantaleimon is the pseudonym of English musician Andria Degens (dee-jens). Andria performs on guitar, keyboards, Indian harmonium, Appalachian dulcimers, utilising samples, field recordings and voice. Over four studio albums, several EPs and singles her music explores themes of embodiment in landscape, nature, and inner transformation. The result is trance-inducing folk music, inspired by an eclectic mix of artists, such as Brian Eno, Can, Neu, Mississippi Fred McDowall, Eden Ahbez, Djivan Gasparyan, Kate Bush, Nico, David Bowie, Soundgarden, Vedic chanting, and Mozart. Although having been signed to other labels in the past Andria has released through her own imprint Grass Girl Music since 2013. As Pantaleimon she has worked solo, and with artists Isobel Campbell, Jay Darlington (Kula Shaker), Will Oldham, James Blackshaw, Hugo Race, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, and Hush Arbors. Andria's work is featured on the soundtrack for Cam Archer' ‘Wild Tigers I Have Known’; she appears on: Current 93’s ‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’ with her version of ‘Idumea’; on The Dirty Three’s ‘Horse Stories’; on Susan Stenger’s ‘Soundtrack for an Exhibition’; on X-TG's Desertshore/The Final Report; on Hugo Race’s 'Between Hemispheres'; albums by Strings of Consciousness and Lüüp. And in 2021 she appeared on Marc Pilley’s Arksong album ‘Ruin Valley Rising’ and on his last single 'One Kind'. After a prolonged period of dormancy, the new instrumental singles of 2023, 'The Conversation' and ’To The In Between’, mark the beginning of a return back into the spotlight.