De Leon, Mario Diaz - The Soul is the Arena [CD]

Mario Diaz de Leon is emerging as a singular voice in contemporary music. With a body of work that cannot be neatly categorized, his music is marked by a sound that is both hallucinatory and intensely physical, and an aesthetic engagement with the role of mysticism in contemporary life.

"The Soul is the Arena" is the long awaited follow up to his 2009 composer debut, and the first release of his classical works for Denovali. The album's three tracks find Diaz de Leon deepening his collaboration with the core members of ICE, now a decade long. The album blends acoustic and electronic elements, whereby a wide variety of ideas are unified by continuous momentum and arresting points of climax.

Vinyl: thick gatefold sleeves + black polylined inner sleeves, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code
Cd: nice digipak packaging
Stream: www.denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon