Pascha Soames Brings Ibiza Calm to a London Bedroom on "11pm in Casa Isabella" EP

Pascha Soames made "11pm in Casa Isabella" while studying for his A-level mock exams, composing the track directly on top of a pile of maths papers in his small London bedroom. Soames gives the finished EP a purpose beyond production polish, treating it as a way to process real academic stress by channeling the memory of somewhere far calmer than his actual surroundings.

That memory centers on Casa Isabella, his parents' house in Ibiza, and Soames deliberately avoids the island's party reputation entirely. He's described the track as chasing the sound of cicadas in pine forests and Mediterranean wind rather than club energy, and that specific, non-obvious choice shapes the EP's entire atmosphere. Don Toliver's influence shows up directly in the panned violin stabs, borrowed conceptually from "No Pole," giving the production real depth as the sound moves between ears.

The EP's most unusual element comes from spoken word contributed by Soames' ex-girlfriend Claudia, recorded with a towel over her head in an attempt to improve mic quality using nothing but a basic home setup. Her words center on the phrase "dose makes the poison," tying directly into Soames' own guiding philosophy, drawn from the Latin principle sola docit facit venenum, that pleasure and harm exist on the same spectrum rather than as opposites.

Recorded and refined over several months of constant small adjustments, the EP reflects years of DJing experience Soames has built since age nine, primarily in house music, now applied to something more personal and specific than a typical dancefloor track.

"11pm in Casa Isabella" asks listeners to sit inside a particular memory rather than move through a generic electronic atmosphere, and Soames earns that specificity through genuine attention to detail, panning, spoken word, and borrowed influence, all shaped around one clear, deeply personal image of calm.