🔗 Share this article The Artist Dania: Her Album Listless – Intimate Experimental Music Inspired by Medical Night Shifts Besides crafting evocative electronic pieces, the Iraqi-born, Barcelona-based artist Dania furthermore works overnight duties as an emergency doctor. Those nocturnal shifts are the influence for her latest release Listless: each of the 7 songs were written and produced after midnight, while the cover features the slender flower of the Japanese snake gourd, a species that only blooms at night. But, you won't find much of the turmoil of her late-night routine here: rather, the album exudes a serene calm that is at times euphoric, occasionally eerie. View picture in full size The Artist: Listless Converging somewhere amid downtempo, ethereal rock and atmospheric, and a hint of pop, the layered songs slink along dreamily, propelled by waves of synthesizers and, as a new element, drums. An innovative feature to Dania’s typical arrangement, they add a gentle slow-paced rhythm to several of the songs. The shuffling, murky rhythm in the track Personal Assistant evokes the 1990s-era bands one group and Seefeel, while Car Crash Premonition is the closest things come to urgent. Written following an disturbing taxi journey to her studio one night, it is both contemplative and woozy, fit for a film montage. Additional tracks, including I Know That and another called Write My Name, are closer in style of the artist's past work: stripped back and amorphous. The final song, named A Hunger, has a subaquatic feel, with bubbling and beeping sounds that resemble hospital monitors, interwoven with distorted answerphone-style singing. The artist's soft, whispering voice is present across almost the entirety of the album. The lyrics are hardly discernible as her vocals are floating, repeated, stacked, sometimes barely there at all. Growing up in a home where vocal expression was discouraged, she’s said it’s something she has consistently considered private about. Yet it’s also an brilliant decision, enhancing the dream-like haze on the gorgeous, intimate album. Also Out Currently One Group draw 4 tracks out to almost 40 minutes on their album Inland See. Throughout those lengthy compositions (featuring an grand 18-minute-long final track), the Windy City trio present a further exemplary work in lush, meandering simplicity, with steady loops and bubbly jazz flourishes. Over the past ten years, Timedance (the label of Bristol producer Batu) has served as a foundation for low-end focused experimental dance music. TD10 celebrates this anniversary with 23 chunky, left-of-centre club cuts for all times of the night, including contributions from heavyweight artists like re:ni, another, a third and the founder himself. Inspired in part by her own encounters of fear of open spaces and claustrophobia, the album Fobia (Other People), the recent work by from Argentina sound artist Aylu, is suitably intimate, sometimes stiflingly thus. Close-contact recordings of strained inhales, gulps and vocalizations expand into intriguing but frequently lovely creations.