Atmospheric sound conjuror Kariti premieres new single and music video »Purge«; »Still Life« full-length nears release on Lay Bare Recordings!
Atmospheric/ambient sound alchemist Kariti premieres new single and music video »Purge« taken from her third full-length album, »Still Life«, set to release on November 7th, 2025 via Lay Bare Recordings.
Tracklist:
01. Spine
02. Nothing
03. Stems
04. Still Life
05. Purge
06. Suicide By A Thousand Cuts
07. Fragile
08. Naiznanku
09. Baptism
Courtesy of Earsplit PR:
»Purge« is the latest video/single from atmospheric sound alchemist KARITI. Now playing at Everything Is Noise, the track comes by way of KARITI’s latest full-length, »Still Life«, set for release on November 7th through Lay Bare Recordings.
KARITI (карити) – meaning “to mourn the dead” in church Slavonic – is the emotional and creative outlet of Ekaterina, a Russian-born poet and songwriter based in Italy.
Describes Everything Is Noise in part, “»Purge« may sound autumnal, but soaring above the soft post-rock/shoegaze instruments lies KARITI’s sweet, expressive voice with a positive message, beckoning listeners to purge themselves of self-doubt and live authentically, like Julee Cruise with a punk spirit. Things outside may be dying, but there is no reason to let things like death and social normativity hold you back from living your truest life. ‘You can’t compete/you are complete,’ KARITI sings in the refrain, later adding, ‘surrender to what’s meant to be/asphyxiate that voice in me.’ The track’s lush sound is accompanied by a psychedelic black and white collage of plants and mouths and a spine, among other things, resulting in a meditative journey of sight and sound thanks to digital artist, Ashley Tofu.”
Photo by Luka Bevk
Ekaterina reflects “»Purge« is the score for coming to terms and embracing the faultiness and the limitations of existing as a human creature made of flesh, bones, and emotions. I am forever in debt to Ashley [Tofu] for managing to fathom exactly what this song is about and for capturing its cinematic core to create this otherworldly visual representation homaging, among other things, the work of one of the most beautiful creative minds to ever grace this Earth: Mr. David Lynch. Please enjoy the voyage.”
Watch KARITI’s »Purge« video HERE.
»Still Life« was recorded by Lorenzo Della Rovere in Corno di Rosazzo, Italy, produced and mixed by Della Rovere and Ekaterina, mastered by John “Spud” Murphy in Dublin, Ireland, and includes additional guitar/noise/drone machine by Marco Matta. The record comes swathed in the cover art image of Ashley Tofu and Laura Sans Gassò, with layout, lettering, and design by Strxart.
»Still Life« will be released on CD, LP, and digital formats. Find vinyl preorders HERE and CD/digital orders HERE where the title track can be streamed.
KARITI’s 2020 debut »Covered Mirrors«, released by the cult Italian label Aural Music (Negură Bunget, Imperial Triumphant, Messa), represented a “cathartic peregrination through bereavement.” KARITI’s second offering, Dheghom, released in February 2024 by the forward-thinking Dutch label Lay Bare Recordings (Frayle, Thief, Yawning Man), saw a development in sound, songwriting, and instrumentation: apart from electric guitars, Ekaterina performed various synthesizers and the analogue piano.
By September 2023, a self-titled, industrial/trip-hop/shoegaze EP was released under the moniker Néant – a collaboration between KARITI and Void of the anonymous Parisian industrial sludge collective Non Serviam. According to Cvlt Nation, “If Portishead, Spirit Possession, The Bug, and The Body decided to create music together, the outcome just might sound like this band.” KARITI is frequently asked to compose vocal lines (and often lyrics) and to be a guest singer for extreme death/black metal bands, including 2024 releases by Bedsore (20 Buck Spin) and Limbes.
Of third full-length »Still Life«, she notes, “These songs are the aftermath of being galvanized into a disillusioned reflection on human life and the way it is lived by most of us in the world in its current state.”
“…viscerally beautiful and haunting…” – Cvlt Nation
“…trying to find a comparison is somewhat difficult…undeniably intoxicating…” – The Sleeping Shaman
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well