LEYA

silent green presents

LEYA, the avant-pop duo of harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist/violinist Adam Markiewicz, has long inhabited a beguiling world, blending medieval-sounding origins with modern folk, classical, and more. The basis of their music is the unique tuning system of the harp, designed by Donovan for the project, which pairs with the distinctly wide, operatic singing range of Markiewicz, and further blends with his processed violin tones.

The template for this sound is found on their 2018 debut The Fool and further developed on their 2020 breakthrough follow-up Flood Dream, which The New York Times called “the auditory equivalent of awakening in the fog of a bad dream only to discover you’re still trapped in the nightmare.” This sense of unease has become a distinctive tone for the project, a collision of beauty and calamity that both soothes and disturbs its listeners.

LEYA’s latest full-length release, I Forget Everything, marks their first return to the studio since 2022’s Eyeline. It is their first solo record containing elements of electronic production, sourcing from home-recorded to high-fidelity sounds, tracing the bounds of new experiments, while remaining rooted in harp, strings, and voice as the sole source of these sounds. The work regards a “haven scorned”, shifting in perspective between the larger world and one that is private, even imagined. A reaction to calamity, it imagines that abandonment is necessary.

 

Monday, June 2
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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