Label: Somewhere Press – SP03 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 9 Aug 2024 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Ambient
From Somewhere Press...
Selkie Reflections was originally conceived by Alliyah Enyo as a 2-hour composition of tape loops, made for an installation at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2022. In album format, Selkie Reflections materializes as a split-side release; a dialogue between Alliyah Enyo and Florian T M Zeisig, under his new alias Angel R.
On the A-side, Enyo re-works the material into a seamless blend of layered vocal calls, dub-mixing at Green Door studio to stimulate the spontaneous spirit of the original takes. Her motifs ooze around one another in overlapping cycles, conjoining the distant cries of the solitary selkie into an evolving ballad of fragmented song.
Zeisig assimilates the archival recordings, shattering them apart to piece them back together. His compositions are traced with the angelic echoes of Enyo’s vocals, yet his intricate processing taps into the arcane sides of the selkie. As vocals twist, warp and distort, disturbed reflections emerge, contending the sublime radiance of the choral drones. In his reinterpretations, infinitesimal moments are stretched out infinitely, like calls from the gods, eerie and cosmic; the cries of the selkie immortalised. (NM)
Tracklist A1 Turning Tale A2 Secret Swims A3 Summoning A4 Opalescant Moon A5 How It Strays When We Dance A6 Whale Calls Reach Another A7 As Late As We Gaze Upon A Stars Death A8 I Gaze Upon Death Too A9 As The Echo Splinters My Ears A10 Return To Me A11 Ronán B1 Untitled I B2 Untitled II B3 Gates Of Heaven
