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Giek_1 envisions a spiritual awakening through the refuge of a romantic relationship. A single deep in its pensive thought, “Hardest Storm” builds over the hypnosis of its chiming loops which circle the track. Reverberating over the haunting cry of Giek_1′s bone-rattling wail, the track rattles with a percussive resonance and percolating depth, giving the track…

From the very first seconds of the song, music takes your mind and teleporting it into its own world. You can’t even struggle with it…the power of the music is colossal. Everything in this song trying to push you as far from reality as possible, and succeeds in this task.

Everything’s been so predictive these days, but with Giek_1 that’s a whole different story.

Back then we were raving about her “deconstructed digital aesthetics and uber-hyper reworkings of R&B and big room ’90s dance genres”, and now we’re happy to hear new material in the shape of new EP ESCAPE.

While we wait for ESCAPE, Both Ways creates an enticing and addictive appetite for more of Giek_1’s seamless blend of good, compelling music and hypnotic visuals.

The new single “Both Ways” is one of those songs that immediately takes you into a different headspace with its atmospheric production and Giek_1’s layered, ethereal vocals.

GIEK_1’s new single »Both Ways« comes with a colorful, but spherical visualization; a never ending cycle of attraction and rejection.

On ‘epicureanism 19:19’, 1.5L, Ancestral Vision & Giek_1 have taken the oh-too-popular internet sensation of ASMR videos and given it counterintuitively unnerving edge.

‘Ascending’ is the EP’s dramatic and glacial opener; which sees Giek_1 merge countless layers of choral vocals over a new-age Eski beat.

The more we listen to it, the more we become detached and entranced in this TWISTED TRANSCENDENCE. The eerie vocals of giek_1 create an irreverent tapestry that inevitably recreates echoes from Eartheater’s phenomenal and seminal work IRISIRI, while the ambitious post-industrial and peppy production will certainly attract those who, such as myself, have become infatuated…