Cassettes

SUPERNATURAL album - Sacred Sea, 2021

Supernatural is a concept album inspired by the Finnish wilderness and explores how we can mend our broken parts through inner photosynthesis. Diving into the link between light, plants and our sensuality. Read more

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"Music as medicine" and "nature as medicine" are well established concepts which French-Greek sound artist and performer Alex H. Alexopoulos, aka Wild Anima, combines on her new album Supernatural, by seeking the link between light, plants and our sensuality, and exploring the connection between nature, the body and tenderness, through her folky, ethereal music.” - Full album review on The Letter, electronic music guide

ALKHEMY album - Sacred Sea, 2020

Artwork "Physical love poem for land, in verse " by Julia Kukkonen.

This album was partly developed during an artist residency in Iceland inspired by the reading of Stephen Harrod Buhner's "The secret teachings of plants: the intelligence of the heart in the direct perception of nature". I chose to spell alchemy with a "k" to recall another form of alchemy that which is created between performer and audience, between two individuals or in between the human heart and the planet Earth.

HIDDEN EDEN art film by Lush Agave & Wild Anima - Sacred Sea / Never Content (Los Angeles), 2021

HIDDEN EDEN is a short film (33:42) written, directed, filmed, and produced by lush agave and wild anima during residency at the fish factory creative center in stöðvarfjörður, iceland over the summer solstice of 2018.

through music and poetry, the film explores the concept of an 'ecology of emotions' and shepherds the viewer on an inner journey through the secret garden of creativity as put into frame by the natural landscape of iceland.

the accompanying zine, designed by artist cody sarabia, contains the lyrical exchange held in preparation for this residency and pairs this prose with photos and illustrations from the journey.

hidden eden is thus an intermedia dialogue, a collaborative journal, and a process of exploring our physical and emotional natures in right relations with the earth's landscape.

we give thanks to the lands of the Seminole, Timucua, Tongva, Tsalaguwetiyi, and Nisqually peoples for nurturing the formation of this project.

- Never Content

BLUE TWENTY-TWO (Songs from above) - Blue Tapes, 2016

Nearly-not-words. Vocal tones that might be described as 'pure' if they weren't so smudged around the edges with reverb, obfuscating the words. Cadences heavy and almost sore, that angel of a voice struggling to lift.

Alex Alexopolous has previously recorded for Blue Tapes with her delicate, precise Kurosounds project (blue seven). As Wild Anima, Alex works with a select troupe of collaborators, applying her unique sound design skills to a set of minimal vocal studies.

It's a voice that - on the first side of the tape, codenamed Songs from Above - appears to be deep in something that some people might call prayer, but is probably a lot more complicated than that.

The second side of the tape is one long piece constructed to evoke a lunar atmosphere: the transcendent Selene.

- Blue Tapes

YOU SAW THE LIGHT (JEAN-YVES LELOUP REMIX)

YOU SAW THE LIGHT downtempo rework - 2020

Praise for Blue Twenty-Two:

"Shamans’ chants weaving together to soundtrack a dream sequence where you can imagine the flashing lights and seemingly endless tunnel of that Willy Wonka psychedelic boat ride scene, only less scary." - Tabs Out

"It’s a meditative, internally explorative work, and the further her voice spreads outward, the deeper Alexopolous seems to journey into herself." - ATTN Magazine

"...revenant chants and keening, minimalist orchestration channeling both the echo-laden haze of Liz Harris’s Grouper and the crumbling tape loop melancholy of William Basinski into ethereal compositions that, despite their weightlessness, always seem anchored to the material world." - We Need No Swords

"...this feels like monastic chant in the best way possible. Think The Name of The Rose meets The Wicker Man." - Bandcloud

INNER SOUNDS (MILA CHIRAL REMIX) on A THOUSAND TONES VOL II - Elestial Sound, 2018

Korean flute by Hyunsoo Parks