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. 

Her music, though stylistically sometimes compared to ‘Dead can dance’, Laurie Anderson and Björk, draws on her own unique musical DNA.

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.

‘Socha’ is available on transparent smoke 12” and digital. Mixed by Sebastian Lee Philipp and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, featuring artwork by Lihla and Visions of Akira.

Driven by a profound exploration of femininity, diasporia, and the importance of storytelling and forgotten wilderness in our times today, Lihla’s music gives space for memory and connection. Her performances create immersive and hallucinatory aural spaces where audiences can transcend their reality and engage in transformative journeys.

Release date: February 24th

Tracklist:

1 / A1. Becoming Human
2 / A2. Disperse
3. A3. Interval
4 / A4. The Kingdom
5 / B1. Orphne
6/ B2. Khepri
7 / B3. Did We Arrive Yet?
8 / B4. Resonance