Trauma - the first Banco de Gaia album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts - is an expression of stress and suffering as well as a celebration of overcoming and hope.

 

The creation of the album was informed by both personal and global issues: declining health in both parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.

 

Finding light in the darkness, the album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.

 

CD in digifile. Signed.