She’s played for Radiohead and Frank Ocean, but now the violinist welcomes you into her own musical world
You’ve probably heard Galya Bisengalieva’s violin before. Her sweepingly melodic and yet piercingly brittle bowing and plucking is a distinct, elevating voice on everything from Jonny Greenwood’s soundtracks for Phantom Thread and You Were Never Really Here to Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool and Frank Ocean’s Blonde. As leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, the Kazakh-British violinist is used to making other people’s compositions her own, but with her second solo release, EP Two, Bisengalieva moves centrestage.
Comprised of pieces written by turntablist and composer Shiva Feshareki and experimental composer Chaines, as well as one by Bisengalieva herself, the resulting record is a deep dive into a digital orchestra of her own making. Opener Zohra, by Feshareki, features droning strings scraping across fractal drum’n’bass, while Chaines’s Claycorn resolves into captivating techno, reminiscent of Bisengalieva’s work with the producer Actress on 2018’s Lageos. The highlight comes on Bisengalieva’s Umay, where she builds siren-like strings into a terror-inducing crescendo.
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