Producer, composer, costume designer, and performance artist, Bristol’s Sarahsson fuses hedonistic club with guttural noise, euphoric trance, and neoclassical composition. Dealing in extremes, she draws inspiration as much from the natural world as from gore and harsh noise: themes of bodies being contorted, ripped apart, and combined anew create beautiful and painful scenarios. Rather than using pre-made samples, she creates her own transforming field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers into percussion; she also built her own daxophone, a bowed instrument which under her ritual conjures monstrous blasts and wails.

A unique voice in the landscape of electronic music, Sarahsson brings together her distinct ear for melody, rich textural harmony, and dramatic narratives to achieve awe-inspiring timelessness on her debut album The Horgenaith (Illegal Data, 2022). The live rendition of her album is just as intense and immediate, a visceral experience that rejects categorization. Sharing line-ups with the likes of Bendik Giske, Lyra Pramuk, Leya, Oklou, Varg2tm, LSDXOXO, and many more, her soundtrack work spans Acne’s Studios FW23 Paris Fashion Week runway show, Harpies – about Europe's first trans strip club for The ICA – and Welsh folklore horror short film Nânt.

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