Venus Volcanism - Rizitiko (2020)

Deep and exotic folk trips from the prevailing alias of Rena Rasouli, Venus Volcanism, whose traditional chants, bird songs and field recordings combine with shaded and evolving synths to deliver Optimo Music a most enchanted EP. Beats are few and far between here, if at all, allowing sustained chords and deep pulsations of bass to create emotively-moving atmospheres made all the more luminous by Rasouli's rich vocal passages, doubled down by progressive harmonies and nebulous undertones. With a heavy set of Greek inspirations, the artist lifts her sound from the depths of an enchanted terrain otherwise neverheard gaining us access to a deep-reaching bliss.