Kavus Torabi’s powerful second solo album The Banishing follows a turbulent period in the artist’s life and represents a mission of personal catharsis.

 

As Kavus says, “Recording The Banishing became a form of therapy, a dialogue with myself. I started to 'live' the album and its completion became an act of alchemy; to transform the pain, hurt and sadness into something beautiful.”

 

“As I started to attempt to document and make sense of what had happened, I wanted to call the album 'Now I'm The Antichrist', much to the consternation of almost everyone I told about it,” Kavus reveals. “As I got towards the end of the recording, however, I settled on The Banishing which, while referring to my banishing from London really describes how I thought of the process of making it which, in magical terms, was a banishing ritual.”

 

Limited white/black vinyl edition.