Marina Herlop Releases New Album ‘Dja Dja’

Catalan artist Marina Herlop has actually revealed her brand-new album, ‘Dja Dja’.

Introduced with the songs ‘Jaque’, ‘Vas volant’ and ‘Bliss’, ‘Dja Dja’ represents a noticeably disciplined and vast accomplishment from the classically trained, progressive star.

Moving in between fragile piano and flute collages to legendary, inter-dimensional structures– with sibilant and harmonic singing work assisting the piece throughout– Herlop has actually crafted a work that is immersive as it is puzzling.

Herlop developed the album as a single, unbroken body of work, where the entire coheres even as each piece keeps its own internal mechanics. The album’s initial structure was the stereotypical Hero’s Journey. Adjusting this origin, Herlop is directed by an open intent to reconceive the misconception and empower the listener, with every analysis simply as real as her own.

Reflective of her Catalonian roots, yet typically stimulating a fantastical area completely of her own development, the music evokes artists like Fever Ray, Björk, and Diamanda Galas, along with authors like Michael Nyman and Steve Reich.

‘Dja Dja’ follows the piano-led minimalism of her very first 2 albums ‘Nanook’ and ‘Babasha, and the electronic radicalism of her next records ‘Pripyat’ and ‘Nekkuja’ — 2 turning point works launched on PAN.

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Image Credit: Silvio Deiaco, Danilo Gambara & & Christian Kondić