You might give the haunting maze of "Glory to Glory" a hundred listens and feel something different each and every time. Berlin based Olivia Void with her plaintive guitar that floats and feels terrestrial in it's fleeting stair steps, as a guide for her words, feel beautiful and mysterious. Void's vocal aesthetic, emotionally potent and drenched in deep thoughts, cast out a narrative that feels more to me, more like sinewy declarations than a traditional linear bit of story telling. Her passages that are so poetically drawn that they feel like puzzle pieces that may connect or may not. Her passion and pain and everything is open for us to see, to hear and it is a moving experience. The thing is, I can get easily lost in the sound and melody of her voice apart from the words and still feel so much. It is hypnotic, I become someone who doesn't speak her language but it in the end, it doesn't matter, it is (at times) inconsequential to it's impact. That is one side of the equation.
On the other side, I consume her words and (as I eluded to earlier) each and every time I feel something different. For me, and maybe for you, "Glory to Glory" exists as a sonic Rorschach test, a stark splatter of emotional artistry for us to interpret. I won't even get into the masterful Official Video (a FRUIT SALAT film) conceptualized by Merle Sibbel & Olivia Void except to say that is is creepily beautiful.
I hope you take note, check out Olivia Void's debut EP "Physical".
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Olivia Void only ever dared to sing out loud when she was alone at home and Void definitely wasn’t born into a family of musicians. Just when shyness had stood in the way of her vision for too long, Void found her megaphone; her brother’s neglected left handed stratocaster. She knew she had to take action on a long kept secret: writing songs just like the artists she admired so much (Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Pattie Smith).
In order to create the sound she was envisioning she had to learn how to use her voice, Void honed her unique style by breaking through her comfort zone and shaping her body into the instrument she needed.
Most recently collaborating with members of the Berlin psychedelic and experimental scenes, Olivia Void is constantly developing her sound while expressing the ongoing challenges of being confronted with oneself.
From the very beginning, she took inspiration from the paradoxical society we live in. This interaction with the world, especially as a woman, led to her debut EP 'Physical'.
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