On the eve of their forthcoming release Mystery Hour, available January 25th via Bella Union, today Pavo Pavo are pleased to share brand new track “Close To Your Ego”. Pavo Pavo is the recording project of Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg.

Mystery Hour began as a means to process the breakup and became a feedback loop, influencing the alchemy of their separation process and informing their new roles in each other’s lives. Recurring sounds and instruments act out the shifting storylines of these characters across the album: Oliver’s pitch-shifted vocals and high melodic synths are a distorted, imperfect replacement for Eliza’s floating soprano voice, and cascading strings are an intentional soundtrack for romantic melodrama.

Pavo Pavo began at Yale University, where the duo both studied music – they met playing in the same string quartet. Since that time, Eliza and Oliver have become prolific and vital collaborators at the intersection of classical, experimental and pop music. As a soprano, Eliza has worked closely on new music with Meredith Monk, Julianna Barwick, John Zorn, Caroline Shaw, and Ben Frost. Oliver has arranged strings for tracks by the Dirty Projectors, Helado Negro and Wet, and is a member of Kevin Morby and Vagabon’s touring bands.

“The beach is an image that keeps coming back to us – the edge of the world, with the possibility of exiting it,” Oliver says. “The idea for this cover is that it builds on the Young Narrator cover, with two figures casting long shadows on the beach. That cover was a collage and this is a photograph, the hi-res, come-to-life version.”

UPCOMING LIVE DATES:

1/7 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
1/20 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
2/6 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere Zone One