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LISTEN: GIHE on Soho Radio with Rats-Tails (27.05.24)

Tash and Kate were back on Soho Radio playing loads of new music from some of their favourite female, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ artists. Mari offered some of her “musical musings” too. Artists featured on the eclectic playlist included Jenny Moore & F*Choir, AVR, Softcult, Schande, Brimheim, R.Aggs, NikNak & AGAAMA, adults, Rubie, Brennan Wedl and more.

Courtney from South London dream-rock band Rats-Tails also joined them in the studio to talk about the band’s latest single ‘Flowers’ and how they shot and created the animated video that accompanies the track. Courtney also spoke about Rats-Tails recent performance supporting HAVVK at The Shacklewell Arms for the March edition of our Get In Her Ears gigs, her band mates mutual love of artists like David Bowie and The Cure, as well as sharing Rats-Tails upcoming gig dates in London and Bristol.

Listen to the show below:

We’ll be back on Soho Radio on Monday 24th June from 12-2pm
Make sure you tune in via www.sohoradiolondon.com

Tracklist
Le Tigre – Hot Topic
Jenny Moore ft. F*Choir – Ceasefire (You Cannot Stop the Sun)
Æ Mak – Let’s Do It
AVR – Confirm Humanity
Softcult – Heaven
Fishwyfe – Get Out
Brimheim – Into The Ooze
Felix Jaehn & Jasmine Thompson – Without You
Gigi Williams – Boulder
cumgirl8 – quite like love
Dermabrasion – Grim Sister
Yinká – Smoke
Naima Adams – Fragile
Coolgirl – Marked Walk
Jessica Pratt – Nowhere It Was
Rosie P – You
Rats-Tails – Flowers
**Interview with Courtney from Rats-Tails**
Pem – Awe
Tom Rasmussen – Dysphoria
Rubie – To Change
R.Aggs – Welcoming The Waves
NikNak ft. AGAAMA – Pandora’s Box
Schande – We’re Not Twins
Brennan Wedl – Scorpio
adults – Trouble
Avril Lavigne – He Wasn’t

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024

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LISTEN: Glass Isle – ‘Pols d’Ombres’

Loosely translating as ‘Dust Of Shadows’, London-based Brazilian artist Zuleika AvTes aka Glass Isle casts a graceful gloom over her listeners on the captivating ‘Pols d’Ombres’. Possessing a lucid dream-like quality, the track is taken from her recent album, Vels d’Èter (‘Veils Of Ether’), which she released via Outer Reaches earlier this month.

By blending her delicate vocal loops with cell-tingling FX and gossamer-like drone sounds, Glass Isle has created a hypnotic rumination that becomes more potent each time it’s listened to. This is the same spellbinding affect her album Vels d’Èter offers. Across 20 tracks, all varying in length, Glass Isle takes listeners on a journey through mortality, and memory, dreams and ritual, solitude and transformation; all via the medium of field recordings captured in London & São Paulo, illuminating drone sounds, and her stirring, far-off vocals.

Described as “music of the ether…diverging through parks and passageways, hinterlands and undergrowth, apparitional visions of arboreal scenery, liminal avenues, and opalescent waterways,” Glass Isle’s sound is as intoxicating as it is elusive. Flickering between the shadows of this world and the realms of another, her music transports listeners through differing states of consciousness. Formed over many years, and now sewn together, Vels d’Èter is ready to illuminate the lives of other.

The album is available as a digital download and on limited edition clear C74 Cassette tape. The cassette includes a 28 page A6 Photography Booklet (160gsm paper/silk finish) and is housed in a Black Matt or Silver Matt Mylar Bag with an Outer Reaches Label Sticker. You can buy your copy here.

Listen to ‘Pols d’Ombres’ below.

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Visit Glass Isle’s official website here

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October 9, 2023October 9, 2023

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NEW TRACK: Hinako Omori – ’ember’

Following on from her previous single ‘cyanotype memories’ – an ode to surrendering to the unknown and finding peace within that process – London-based artist and composer Hinako Omori has shared her latest single, ’ember’. Taken from her upcoming album, stillness, softness…, which is set for release via Houndstooth on 27th October, the track is an uplifting sonic delight that encourages listeners to let go of the past and relinquish feelings of doubt.

On her upcoming record, Omori retains the soothing, enigmatic qualities of the tracks that formed her debut album, …a journey – which featured on Get In Her Ears’ Albums Of 2022 list – but she expands her use of synthesizers and seraphic vocals further. She continues to trust her intuition and channel her emotions into idiosyncratic sounds, but this time she has leaned into a more contemporary, song-based structure.

Whilst her debut album concentrated on healing others with invigorating, ambient sounds and field recordings, on stillness, softness…, Omori looks inward and gently dismantles the barriers that held her back from finding peace within herself. ’ember’ acknowledges this important on-going process, with its shimmering synths, soft vocals and earnest lyrics offering a glimpse of the respite this can provide.

“The idea behind ’ember’ is noticing that our attachment to the past can cloud our perception of situations,” explains Hianko, “and the importance of breaking through these barriers we place on ourselves to build a healthier, compassionate relationship with ourselves and others.” Urging her listeners to “break free” from their chains, Omori delivers another captivating, altruistic piece of music that resonates further each time it’s listened to.

Listen to ’ember’ below.

Hinako Omori UK & EU Live Dates 2023
24/11 – Teatro Principal, Ourense – Spain
25/11 – L’Archipel, Paris – France
29/11 – Alphabet, Brighton – UK
30/11 – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds – UK
01/12 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester – UK
02/12 – ICA, London – UK
04/12 – Zonzij, Amsterdam – Netherlands
06/12 – XENON (Huset), Copenhagen – Denmark
07/12 – Volksbuehne (Roter Salon), Berlin – Germany
09/12 – Botanique (Witloofbar), Brussels – Belgium

Follow Hinako Omori on bandcamp, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter (X) & Facebook

Photo credit: Luca Bailey

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September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

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NEW TRACK: afromerm – ‘held’

An elegant, eclectic soundscape that gently ruminates on the duality of emotion, London based, independent artist and producer afromerm has shared her latest single ‘held’. Formerly known as CIL, who we named as one of our ‘Ones To Watch‘ earlier this year, under her updated moniker afromerm is marking a ‘new era’ of her work, and ‘held’ is an ambient, poetic introduction to her fresh perspective and invigorated journey into sound.

We first saw afromerm live when she supported the equally talented Bristol-based artist t l k at The Jago in Dalston in March 2022. Her skills as a composer, poet and producer were deeply impressive. She manipulated sound via a motion-controlled synthesizer, and watching her gracefully move her hands around the idiosyncratic equipment was hypnotising. Since then, afromerm has collaborated with the esteemed NYX Drone Choir during a residency at the Southbank Centre and she has been busy working on new solo material.

Through her atmospheric electronics, minimal lyrics and sparse echoing beats, on ‘held’ afromerm has crafted a deeply soothing, evocative piece of art. Her soothing voice lilts over diverse soprano saxophone and alto flute sounds, performed by Buster Woodruff-Bryant and YUIS. “Your head, it’s been held / in sounds of joy / and I see, though you’re loved, you don’t feel it” she sings at the close of the track, tapping into conflicting feelings in such a gentle, measured way. Written, produced and mixed entirely by afromerm, ‘held’ showcases her enigmatic and instinctive talent to create such a strong sense of feeling with considered, seemingly effortless execution.