Xena Glas drifts her wordless vocals into the languid flow of tones of the beginning of “To the A” like a ghost inhabiting a public light display. The stereo effects on the track both pull us into the emotional frame of the sounds and allow us to share in the experience of engaging emotionally with a flow of sounds that is luminous and warm yet otherworldly. Rather than expressing what it might be like to jack into an AI circa early cyberpunk, it gives a sense of perhaps what it would be like to be an AI jacking into the brains of an organic being and wading through the intricate gossamer pathways constantly creating new pathways in fractal patterns of the raw stuff of memory and creativity. And yet there is a sense of a journey through this interior world that reveals in the end that maybe the sounds reflect how we navigate to utilize a large physical network like a subway system. And yet both resonances work as Xena Glas calls upon a more abstract sense of journey with her tonal arrangements so that one can hear whatever journey is most prominent in one’s mind and find in the song the frequencies to reflect our sense of passage. Listen to “To the A” on Spotify, connect with Xena Glas at the links below and listen to the rest of the evocative new EP Movement which became available on October 28, 2022.
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