ILLUMINAE Releases Debut Album “Dark Horizons”, Featuring Bassist Ian Jones

Dark Horizons is the debut album from ILLUMINAE, a brand-new project from Ian Jones (Karnataka, Chasing The Monsoon), and Agnieszka Swita (Caamora).

The album features special guests Steve Hackett (Genesis), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Troy Donockley (Nightwish), Craig Blundell (Steven Wilson), and Luke Machin. The album was mixed by Joe Gibb, highly regarded as a world-class mix engineer and who has worked with many prestigious artists including Massive Attack, The Cure, and Leftfield.

From dark, twisted symphonies to sweet lullabies, the collective writing talents of Ian Jones (Karnataka, Chasing The Monsoon) and Agnieszka Swita (solo, Caamora) combine in their powerful new musical collaboration ILLUMINAE. Embracing symphonic, progressive, and Celtic influences, bittersweet melodies intertwine with lush harmonies to create a majestic towering cathedral of sound, songs that traverse the dividing line between darkness and light, life and death, solitude and hope. Shards of light piercing a subterranean labyrinth.

London-based Welshman, Ian Jones, is a founder member, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with British symphonic rock band Karnataka and Chasing The Monsoon. Karnataka has released several critically acclaimed and award-winning albums, including The Gathering Light and Secrets of Angels. Vocalist, pianist, and composer Agnieszka ?wita, hailing from Poland and living in London, released her self-penned debut solo album ‘Sleepless’, a modern symphonic rock album, to critical acclaim and has released several albums with Clive Nolan in their collaborative project Caamora.

TRACK LIST: i. The Lighthouse ii. Blood on Your Hands iii. Edge of Darkness iv. Lullaby v. Twice vi. Heretics & Prophecy vii. Sanctuary viii. Black Angel ix. Sign of Infinity x. Dark Horizons

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