When we interviewed Greg Jarvis of Toronto-based orchestral psych wonders The Flowers Of Hell last year, his ambitions were modest – “developing & exploring bigger and stronger ways to achieve synesthetic sensory lift-off.” (Read the interview here).

Jarvis is a synesthete – he experiences sounds as abstract shapes, something that informs and feeds off the band’s blend of psychedelia, post-rock, shoegaze, classical music and operatic bombast. “I wanted to create a grand epic visual – a great album length abstract movie, combining the spectacularly beauteous shapes I see in classical pieces with some of the most dazzling sights I’ve found in the more experimental edges of indie rock and electronic music.

Absorbing ‘Symphony No. 1′, it’s clear like he’s achieved the sensory lift-off he promised; stratospheric ambient envelopment six years in the making…float on, brother.

Check out Jarvis’ animated video for the first movement of the symphony to whet your appetite…