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CMU Approved
Approved: Venus Volcanism
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 30 April 2020
One reason to like electronic musician Rena Rasouli is that she’s chosen a name for her musical output that means when you Google her you’re immediately presented with images of volcanoes on Venus. Time spent looking at space volcanoes is never time wasted. Scroll down a bit and you’ll also find pages relating to her and her music, bringing you to the new mini-album ‘Rizitiko’ – the calming, meditative record you need right now.
Released through Optimo Music’s Weaponise Your Sound imprint, the record is based on Rasouli’s academic thesis ‘The Music Performances Based In Traditional Dialect Focuses On The Healing Ability Of Sound’. That traditional dialect is her native Cretan, and ‘Rizitiko’ sees her take traditional folk songs from the Greek island and reimagine them in a new musical setting.
Following the record’s recent release comes the video for the track ‘The Dream’, of which she says to Fact: “This video is a collective effort from female spirits to create an elegy to female power. Sweet, endless, tender, naked, dangerous, cruel, creative, which can love unconditionally, kiss endlessly, devour to the core and recreate, which can plant, grow and wither”.
Watch the video here:
