On Noveber 16, 3 - 4PM (CET), ANIMA SGN will present Enyang Ha
@enyang_ha on
@refugeworldwide on-site at Oona Bar.
Enyang Ha, a South Korean-born Berliner, creates a fluid blend of pop, post-rock, and experimental music. Over a decade ago, she emigrated to Berlin to ingratiate herself with the city’s vibrant local music scene. Twelve years ago, Ha emigrated to Berlin to ingratiate herself with the city’s vibrant local music scene. She’d grown up in South Korea, but decamped to the USA - Kentucky, to be exact - when she was just 14, staying a while before moving to Tokyo to study. Now an in-demand technician who’s worked alongside boundary-pushing artists like Arca, Amnesia Scanner and Tzusing, Ha channels her experience and experiences into music that speaks to a diverse global landscape where borders are as malleable as warm gold. Her prismatic understanding of culture gives her sounds a sensitivity and vulnerability that’s universal but never ornate - she finds beauty in ear-splitting distortion, and complexity in sanguine radio pop.
In 2023, she released her debut album “NAME OF YOUR LIGHT.” Singing in Korean over tightly-knitted backdrops of electronic percussion and symphonic modular blasts, she resolutely refuses to take a single path, using non-traditional compositional methods to reach remarkable sonic vistas. The album is informed by concepts of reincarnation and rebirth and constantly reinvents itself, absorbing radically different genres without losing its central, coherent thread. She wrote it while pregnant and raising her son, an experience that offered her both challenges and the courage to overcome them. “It’s not simple to find a path to be born again,” she explains. “It requires a lot of strength and will.”