Echoing percussion and a low key urgent swirling drone introduces us to SUEVERIE’s song “VEKI” and in the music video we see a corresponding visual of rippling waters at dusk. Vocals come in with a similar dynamic of echo crying out for relief from an ache of loneliness. For this duo it’s a matter of lockdown and the ongoing pandemic that has forced their separation as each lives in a different country, quite an imposed long distance relationship compounding the isolation and relative lack of contact we’ve each, those of us observing basic precautions anyway, undergone for nearly two years. The slow turning drone and introspective, haunted vocals embody that state of affairs and at the same time sounds like a best attempt to breach that chasm in the ways we can. Sure the members of SUEVERIE like all of us can keep in contact in virtual ways and even make creative work together but it’s not quite the same and the prolonging of these separations have had psychological impacts that are going to affect people for years to come. “VEKI” and the distorted soundscapes and the way it ends in what sounds like a signal breaking apart due to some breakdown in technology sounds like that psychic distortion and disruption. The tone is despairing, and the intensity of feeling is palpable, but the vocals glow with a hope for a break in the worst impacts of the global health crisis so that loved ones can be reunited despite the challenges we all still face put on the backburner by an immediate crisis. Watch the video for “VEKI” on YouTube and follow SUEVERIE at the links below.
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