VÍZ • Cecilia

VÍZ is the experimental solo project of Hungarian Transylvanian multidisciplinary artist Réka Csiszér; an exploration of identity, processed acoustic liminal sounds, analogue synthesis, transylvanian folklore, horror, diaristic arias, opera and noise.
On her moonlit second solo album, VÍZ composes an uncanny and chilling soundtrack that muddles the physical and spiritual realms, balancing crumbling realities with confident self-actualization. Danse des Larmes is based on sketches commissioned for a theater production, and Csiszér widens the original concept of „Eastern European melancholy“ by painting dreamlike memories from her childhood – of alienation, unconscious trauma and distress – into a hypnotic sequence of soundscapes that hum with tension, mystery and transcendence. She pulls from industrial music, dark ambient, Eastern European folk music and vintage horror soundtracks, smudging sludgy drones, dense electro-acoustic textures and her own breathtaking choral vocals until the roots vanish almost completely, leaving only ghostly traces behind.

CECILIA is an artist and composer originally from Kamouraska in rural Quebec, Canada. She develops a singular soundtrack between dark fairy tale and poetic recital, encouraging a memorial, introspective and hallucinatory listening. CECILIA released her first EP Charit. Whore in 2017 under Grooming Label, followed by her debut LP Adoration via Halcyon Veil in 2018 and Summer in Sexilia later in 2021 on Xquisite Releases.