Daniailyas is a portmanteau produced from the names of cross-continent collaborators Dania Shihab and Ilyas Ahmed. Their album, Enough For Me To Remain, which takes its title from a work by Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan, contains 6 songs, created between Barcelona and Portland. These are gentle, ethereal affairs. Generated from acoustic and electric guitars and gossamer synths. Rich with reverb and seductive whispers. Crafted from careful clusters of notes that float on their own echoes. Summoning a sense of a shadowy space, dark, nocturnal, but warm and loving. Like Malibu’s Palaces Of Pity from earlier this year, in places the pieces recall The Cocteau Twins and, at its most treated, most vaporised, Burial’s intricate ambient interludes. The Pilgrim is perhaps the album’s centrepiece. Fashioned from folky, Americana fretwork – a simple repeat that slowly expands over the song’s 7 minute-plus duration – it could easily serve as a score for a thoughtful art house movie montage flashback. Happy silent shaky home Super 8s collaged with a nostalgic daydream-like quality. Church organ chords rising and Shihab’s looped lyric like a faraway operatic aria.

Daniailyas’s Enough For Me To Remain can be ordered directly from Geographic North.