Socha by Lihla
“Music gives us a place to be lost. Washing away thought, place, time and identity. It’s in the falling into the river, the dream, that we find just who we could be”.
Classically trained cellist, composer and storyteller Lihla (Lih Qun Wong) presents her debut album, ‘Socha’ for A Strangely Isolated Place. Combining a vast instrumental skillset of piano, cello, electronics and spoken word, she crafts intensely immersive aural-hallucinatory worlds of intricately shifting landscapes.
A deeply personal work, Socha explores the ‘diaspora of time and space, and why we all feel so displaced.' Piano chapters capture the meeting place between memory and longing, while explorational vocal and cello textures invoke and echo the ancient, the feminine, and the otherworldly.
Lihla’s voice guides us, weaving through electronics and field recordings of the ‘real world' to set the path for a poetic and deeply haunting journey through the internal psyche that is truly transportive and escapist.
Tracklist
| 1. | Becoming Human | 4:57 |
| 2. | Disperse | 6:24 |
| 3. | Interval | 2:24 |
| 4. | The Kingdom | 4:17 |
| 5. | Orphne | 6:12 |
| 6. | Khepri | 7:06 |
| 7. | Did We Arrive Yet? | 5:08 |
| 8. | Resonance | 4:33 |
Credits
Cat: ASIPV047
Written and produced by Lih Qun Wong
Mixed by Sebastian Lee Philipp
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio
Artwork by Lihla and Visions of Akira
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Null, from the German word meaning emptiness, features Lihla’s use of piano, vocal textures, cello and soundscapes to create a cinematic audio world of magical realism. It is an ode to her neoclassical roots. She pulls her influences from Laurie Ander- son, Olarfur Arnalds, Björk, and Nils Frahm for the EP, and creates thoughtful sonic worlds to tell her melodic stories.