Sophia Aya’s “Electra”: A Divine Deviation from the Norm to the Realm of Sound and Soul Awakening
“Electra” by London-based Sophia Aya delves well beyond the standard ambient music confines. It’s a cinematic, spiritual, and profoundly intimate voyage that one may hardly consider as a music work but rather as a direct consciousness awakening guided by the artist. The sound here can hardly be termed as ‘background music’; it functions as a ‘portal’, ‘ritual’, or simply ‘awakening moment’ concealed in the radiant sound design.
The whole concept of “Electra” indicated by the very first tones is to get out of a hypersleep and find oneself on a remote and alien planet that is, nevertheless, calm, ancient, and inexplicably resembles one's home. The beautiful voice of Kat Kikta has the properties of an angel, and she could be viewed as a protective presence, performing with the warmth and exactness of her voice; thus, she gives the creation a closeness to a sound-healing session rather than a standard track. Her singing becomes the emotional guide that pulls the audience into the world Aya creates with great care and precision.
Sophia Aya’s ideas are not only about music, but they also involve healing, mysticism, and higher consciousness. She inspired this release with these qualities, and “Electra” is a perfect example to prove these statements. The work is composed of ambient textures, and at the same time, those atmospheric sounds are accompanied by ritualistic tones, cinematic swells, and spiritual resonance, which have been created to evoke introspection in listeners. Aya admits that this piece of music is “a journey” and one can easily recognize this idea, be the journey is across stars or inside the human nervous system, the emotional aspect still holds.
The main point of “Electra” shining so brightly is its emotional openness. Aya does not engage the viewer with spectacle; she simply allows quietude, astonishment, and vulnerability to govern the story. What she achieves is a piece of music that pushes the audience to leave the cave and confront their “spectres” with the “spectres” being truthfully, and gently lit with the help of the sound. As noise gets more and more dominant in our world, “Electra” goes against the trend by being a niche of silence or simply being sacred. This is the reason why this song is memorable.
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