Anglo-Maltese quartet ĠENN have released their latest single and video, “The Sister Of”, just before the release of their debut album, unum, out this Friday on Liminal Collective. “The Sister Of” is accompanied by a short-film/music video from Ukrainian director Kyryl Volovych.
Volovych speaks to the collaboration with ĠENN: “From a personal standpoint, this work is a deeply special one for me. We tend to lose ourselves in the whirlpool of events and occurrences that surround us in our daily lives, and war here in Ukraine has definitely brought a tsunami of those. I feel like “The Sister Of” is somewhat a merger of all the contrasting emotions, thoughts and changing outlooks on life that so happen to occur in my mind. And in the minds of millions.
“ĠENN have been insanely supportive of the experimental nature of our concept from the very beginning and to be able to create a project, as meaningful to us as this one is, in Ukraine – has an infinite value to me.”
Musically, “The Sister Of” opens on the brim of a Dick Dale slapback delay through Janelle Borg’s guitar then oozes into Leona Farrugia’s haunted vocals. This release exposes yet another layer of their eclectic tapestry. Whether it is Ghanian fingerstyle guitars in “Calypso”, chants and spring reverb of “Rohmeresse”, or the trip hop influence in “A Muse (In Limbo)”, they are shaping to be, as described by Leanne, “the embodiment of “identity and the search of it.” All the while, they remain true to their self-described sisterhood founded on instinctive trust and affection.
Watch the short-film/music video below or find “The Sister Of” on streamers.
ĠENN’s debut album unum arrives this Friday, October 6, via Liminal Collective (pre-order/save). You can find the band on Bandcamp, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Talking more about the film, director Kyryl Volovych adds that it’s “a blend of realism and mysterious surrealism, and elements of sci-fi, is a binding thread for the vision of this project.”
He continues: “In the world of the “The Sister Of” – time is an independent reality existing without humans to perceive it.
“The main character is somewhat ethereal, a soul travelling in time and space. Through many dimensions. We just happen to see the story of only one of those.
“This body of work is a puzzle that’s being built as the viewer watches it, yet after completion the puzzle you have put together might be very different from viewer to viewer. And that’s what’s truly beautiful about cinema.”
