Collaboratively and independently their shows are characterized by their reflective nature, designed for deep listening. Both are residents at Clyde Built and have contributed to Mutant Radio, Refuge Worldwide, Lyl Radio and Rinse FM. The label is run by Lizzie Urquhart and Tim Dalzell. Our focus is on diaristic, sensitive approaches to sound, from ethereal ambient to avant-folk and psychedelic-infused electronics. The label is primarily drawn to working with artists who use experimental processes, often as part of an interdisciplinary practice, where live performance and visual accompaniments are intrinsic to the work. Somewhere Between Tapes is a Glasgow-based record label, formed in 2022 via connections made at local community radio station Clyde Built Radio and at Green Door Studio's sound workshop. She has performed at multiple venues across Scotland and previously supported Erika De Casier. She recently performed her 9-month collaborative project 'Selkie Reflections' for Hidden Door festival, working with dancers and classical musicians to explore Siren and Selkie myth. She comes from a visual-arts background which is evident in her theatrical live performances that encompass elaborate stage design and choreographed dance. The work has received early support from Jack Rollo (NTS), Lucinda Chua (NTS), Pako Vega (Fade Radio, Athens), Elina Tapio (Radio Radio, Amsterdam), Conna Harrawy (INDEX:records) and Martyna Basta (Unsound festival).Īlliyah Enyo is an Edinburgh-based artist. We're left amongst the blissful reverberations of an awakened soul.Įcho's Disintegration is the debut album by Alliyah Enyo. Through the agony and longing, we reach reincarnation in the culminating euphoria of 'the healer'. There's a radiant clarity to the recordings, Alliyah's voice implemented as the guiding instrument, the heady sensuality of her vocals layered and echoed in enchanting formation. Recorded in Glasgow's renowned Green Door Studio, constructed reel-to-reel tape loops further fragment and transform compositions, evoking the intoxicating tape feedback of Eliane Raidgue and the harrowing loops of William Basinski. The five studio tracks, made in retrospect, carry the live performance within the DNA of their reinterpreted sounds and loops. Yet through the ambiguity, there's an innate spirituality to the work iridescent melodies are heightened by the imposing presence of the surroundings. Her words are fractured and frayed, broken into segments, and enshrouded in mysticism. Her luminous vocals break through a dense sea of layered noise, a reverberating wailing drenched in heartache. In the initial live performance, Alliyah harnesses the organic echo and reverb formed by the vast open space of the cathedral. ![]() It's a work of two parts, each incarnation informed by the parameters of the recording environment. Recently, all four cd’s (almost 5 hours of disintegrating loops!) are reissued.Emerging from a live recording at St.Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in 2021, Alliyah Enyo's 'Echo's Disintegration' is a transformational project a coded reflection on loss, metamorphosis and rebirth. Rumour around this project has grown to near mythical proportions. The Disintegration Loops were hard to find originally. ![]() I am not sure yet if it’s the concept, the coincidence, or the music itself that makes The Disintegration Loops so very impressive.īut in the end, this doesn’t really matter. … In the next days and weeks, I watched as I and my friends disintegrated in our own personal loops of fear and terror…each one happening on it’s own terms, in it’s own language, at it’s own pace’ We sat on the roof terrace in lawn chairs and watched the fires burning all day into night with the Disintegration Loops playing in the background. At that point, ‘Disintegration’ became quite a different dimension. That, in itself, already is quite symbolic, but the story got another dimension when these tapes, played at his New York appartment, accidentally became a soundtrack for the 2001 09-11 disaster. William immediately realised the symbolic potential and recorded this process of disintegration as a new musical project. ![]() (Remember the brown dust on your cassette-recorder playback heads?). If you can remember this analog reel-to-reel tapes (or cassettes), and imagine them to be used as a real physical loop (end glued to beginning), you can almost see how they started to deteriorate when played endlessly. Upon re-discovering his own archives, William Basinski found some old analog tape-recordings of some ‘pastoral pieces’ of his own work, recorded in the early 80’s.
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