Dear Laika

city: Cols Ash
country: UK
genre: Singer/Songwriter
styles: Experimental, Ambient, Lofi, Dream Pop, Minimal

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ABOUT THIS ARTIST

Dear Laika is a young musician and artist living in relative seclusion in the forest and online. Despite full immersion in the "classical" tradition from a young age, singing and playing piano and violin prodigiously, she at once embraces and rejects these roots in pursuit of sonic invention and beauty, electronically warping classical instrumentation and conjuring ghostly choirs in the service of non-traditional structures and sound-worlds. Through invocations of mythology, mysticism and the natural world, Dear Laika explores dreams, time, love, loneliness, and being transgender through the lens of (admittedly limited) personal experience. Two albums of this pop music exist so far: "Vision of St. Cross" (2017) and "Rinzen" (2018). There exist four other ambient/noise albums for electric guitar and electric violin: "Twin Mythemes" (2018), "White Leopards" (2018), "Dewy Reds, Fatal Jaws" (2018), and "A Panther to Ephraim" (2019). This discography was selected in August 2018 to be preserved in the British Library Sound Archive. Dear Laika has played live, sharing bills with artists such as Matana Roberts, Loraine James, Mermaid Chunky, Mich Cota, and caroline; she has also played violin as part of caroline in live performances. She is currently signed to US label NNA Tapes and UK label Memorials of Distinction.