Abyss X who hails from Crete, Greece and began to dabble in music in 2015. Former professional dancer, theater director and video designer. She holds a degree in Computer Science, a Masters in Performance from Central St Martins in London and she is also an alumni of the Music Business department at UCLA
Abyss who runs the SHXME label combines various genres such as world music, pop, jazz, techno, noise and trip hop.
“Innuendo”, his debut album is a sonic amalgamation in which the use of her 4-octave vocal range emerges, a masterfully manipulated electronics, with experimental scraps that evolves into sprawling, texturally dense atmospheres of sound, sure to immerse the listener into her unique world.
“Love Altercation” displays an intoxicating and hypnotic trip-hop with its rhythm that invites to dance. So also “Attraction in Doubt” with its driving beats and the singing-talk of Abyss. The distorted voice on “The New Now” and the techno motorik reminds me of Luke Slater’s 7th Plain project.
This mazing album ends with the atmospheric trip-hop “Sharp Tounge” that invites the listener to move his/her head and body at the same time to let themselves be carried away by its hypnotic rhythm.
https://abyssx.bandcamp.com/track/animosity-sophie-remix
Guillermo Escudero
August 2020