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I’m glad she decided to opt for the “club album” format, focusing on presenting her captivating DJ-ready productions rather than more heady downtempo and experimental pieces. It’s been exciting to see her bloom into one of the outstanding US-based artists of the younger generation, and her debut for the Queens-based label run by duo Ma Sha marks a turning point in her career. Since her debut in 2020, the Indian-American DJ/producer has been steadily gaining recognition both as an extremely lucid producer releasing gargantuan breaky rollers like ‘We Be Bubblin’ and ‘Dark Matter’, as well as for her eclectic DJ sets. While songs vary in arrangements (some more sparse and dynamic, some more loopy and skeletal) there’s a very pronounced narrative structure between opener ‘Sing With Me’ and epilogue ‘Sing With Us’, making Ne Lépj a Virágra a pleasingly transportative experience. Compositions fluctuate between melancholy tones conjured via the distinct timbre of the accordion (played by Jakub Smiček) and more 'spectral', hauntological vibes, as if ghosts of ancient folk traditions haunt her contemporary creations.

Singing in Slovak, Hungarian, English and Italian, her voice hypnotizingly intertwines, untangles, harmonises and disharmonises, creating chimeric, sirenic, and angelic vocal lines, at times quite alien, elsewhere more folkloric, even operatic. I particularly enjoy the intricate techniques that Mede employs to process and expand her vocals around which most compositions revolve. Here, the intersection between folk, modern classical, minimalism, drone, field recording and experimental electronic music has been a go-to area for many artists, including Polish talent Martyna Basta, who also appears on this record on the haunting piece ‘Hol A Tavasz’. Aesthetically, it emerges from the hyperspecific Central European sensibilities that inform regional leftfield music scenes between the Baltic and the Balkans. In recent weeks, the second album by Slovak-Hungarian musician, singer and producer has been my soul medicine.

(Warm Winters Ltd.) Ne Lépj a Virágra by Adela Mede

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