Marina Herlop
The last four years have been overwhelming, planetary and decisive for Marina Herlop. Since her magnificent album Pripyat (released on the Berlin label PAN in 2022), the Catalan artist has journeyed to all four corners of the world, whether solo or with her band, winning over an audience that has grown with every concert captivated by songs that feel almost alien in their oblique shapes, spreading velvet through a friction of genres, styles, categories and idioms: an electroacoustic pop, choral and sensual, intersecting with compositions that are incandescent, scholarly and exacting. These are the achievements we already know her for, yet Dja Dja marks a still more ambitious summit that Marina Herlop has set out to reach. A work drawing on the “Hero's Journey” as a guide for a voyage of transformation and self-affirmation, in which a new universe of sounds and textures enters the archite
