»Melting Pillars of Snow« is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for contrabass, recorder, shō, percussion, electric guitar, voice and electronics performed by Maria W Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner, and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearance by Michael Gira.

»Melting Pillars of Snow« sees Maria drawing inspiration from W.G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn which is a poetic reflection following an unnamed narrator wandering along the Suffolk coast in England.