VOLUR / CARES - BREATHLESS SPIRIT (FULL ALBUM)

Описание: Breathless Spirit is an incredible collaboration between Toronto’s avant‑garde doom trio Völur and producer Cares (James Beardmore).

This album, released August 8, 2025 via Black Throne Productions & Batke Records, combines heavy riffs, black metal vocals, folk-infused textures, experimental electronics, and saga-inspired storytelling into one 42 minute long journey.

Copies of Breathless Spirit are available online via www.blackthroneproductions.com

Also available is the Diehard Bundle Edition - featuring a limited edition 7" single by Volur & Bowed Arts - complete with limited edition "Breathless Spirit" Tea

Völur/Cares
Die Sprachen der Vögel IV
Breathless Spirit

1. Hearth
2. Windbourne Sorcery I
3. Windbourne Sorcery II
4. Breathless Spirit
5. On Drangey
6. Death in Solitude

Völur is:

Laura C. Bates - violin, electric violin, viola, cymbals, and vocals
Lucas Gadke - electric bass, double bass, harmonium, keyboards, tanbur, clarinet, bass clarinet, and vocals
Justin Ruppel - drums, and percussion

Cares is

James Beardmore - Synthesizers, keyboards, sound design, and production

Produced by Völur & James Beardmore

Recorded between February 2020 and September 2023 at Bilskirnir Studios and The Bates Motel by Völur

And at Marmaduke Studios in Toronto, Ontario by Ruben Huizenga

Mixed by Chris Snow at Halo Studio
Mastered by Reuben Ghose at Mojito Mastering

All music written by Völur and Cares
Lyrics by Lucas Gadke and Laura C. Bates

Breathless Spirit stone cut print by Saimaiyu Akesuk with permission of Dorset Fine Arts

Additional musicians:
Zoë Santo - viola on hearth
Amy Bowles - vocals on Winbourne Sorcery II

Layout and design by Chimere Noire

Thank you to: Brad Van der Zanden, Ben Umanov, Ruben Huizenga, Amy Bowles, Nina Wodzinska, Chelsea Shanoff, Reza Houshvar and family, The Three Daves, Marg, Gloria and Suzanne, Katie Whitaker, Blood Ceremony, Mama’s Broke, Cuban Pete, all the bands we’ve shared the stage with, 1476, Steve Colca & Destroyer of Light, Vanishing Kids, Rae Chatten, Al Park, Dominic Costa, Carl Antonowicz. Empress Effects. Vector Violins. Taco, Tully, and Harlow.

Die Sprachen der Vögel (the languages of birds) is an ongoing series of EPs and albums showcasing Völur’s collaboration with local and international artists.