Floating somewhere between lo-fi folk, the dreamiest of dream pop, new-age, ambient, and some kind of medieval devotional music, this is a hard one to pin down. But why try to pin it down, when it floats so beautifully in its ambiguity?
Bara and Isa apparently started work on this during lockdown, way back in 2021, collaborating via voice notes between London and Vienna. In a way, it’s remarkable that they could create something so intimate and cohesive that way — but if you squint, it kind of makes sense, with the distance imposed on them allowing space for oblique moves to emerge.
Musically, we are in the realm of floaty synth things, gently plucked ukulele, a kind of new-agey pipes (but this blog is officially comfortable with this type of thing), and something that wheezes like a hurdy-gurdy or perhaps an asthmatic organ. The rhythm section consists of little more than windchimes, singing bowls, and strange bubbling noises. The vocals are in an intentional naive style, and I guess that some may find them cloying, but this hardened cynic found them strangely moving. When they sing “It’s okay, okay, don’t you worry” over and over, overlapping in a kind of round, it’s as if they’re trying to make this true by sheer sincerity, and I find myself willing it along with them.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Folk / Roots and Modern Classical / Ambient.
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