Soho Rezanejad

★★★ Perform And Surrender SILICONE. DL

Danish-Iranian’s electro organic odyssey live.

Since her 2018 debut album Six

Archetypes, a forceful slab of dark-wave resistance, Soho Rezanejad has plotted an unconventional path. The following two-part Honesty Without Compassion Is Brutality was more experimental: sampled voices, electronic scree, symphonic ambience, starkly aching ballads. These live additions, with elements written the day of performance, follow suit. The 12-minute Surrender, threaded with sharp bird cries, is a viable soundtrack to Sir David Attenborough’s series on environmental extinction. In shorter form, Rezanejad com-piles spirituals for the departed, both personal and global. Absence contrasts her soprano with sombre viola; she duets beatifically with birdsong on Hera, but any track named after the Norse goddess of death is destined to take a dark turn, as her voice disappears into an underworld of sound. Sleepless Solitude is pure distilled heartache: “All I do,” she laments, “living the memory of our song.” Martin Aston