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Though it took her eight years to put out the follow-up, Ellipsis, the album was well-worth the wait, and O’Hara kept herself busy in the meantime doing brilliant and innovative live performances and sound installations.
Whether electroacoustic, sample-based, purely improvised, partly composed, experimental sound art, noise or even indie post-rock style, the music makes you feel like you’ve walked into a fantastical treasure trove of sound. Blink once, and it might all be gone.
“Here, for you, a brand new edifice of sound.
Welcome to it.
Stretch and wander in the relaxed mind.
May I offer you some words to describe the experience?
Dangersome!
Mesmeric!
Purple!
Grapple!
Perhaps you would prefer a compound phrase.
Two-chord cogitation!
Creepy, dreamy bounce blues!
I took the saddest parts of a stubbed heart and tossed it up with some edifying red-hot crystals. It’s not for eating! Put it on in the corner. It will console and inflame the cosy nook of your upper story.”— Alexis O’Hara