Artist Spotlight: Xicada
Toronto’s very own Sorceress, Ilyse Krivel, is at the forefront of Canada’s rich experimental underground community. Her immersive compositions merge the sacred and synthetic with personal, spectral vocals, unstable rhythms, and warping textures emerge as a kind of interdimensional alien folk trance, rooted in ritual, rupture, and the surreal.
Borscht (
@borscht.live ), her co-founded label and internet radio station, is where her most recent album, ENGAGING ANIMAL EARTH, released. Xicada describes her artifact as a kind of “witchy, earth-bound futurism,” where, “conjured sonic environments unfold altered states and liminal worlds.” The influence of ambient, bass, breakbeat, idm, experimental techno and noise are boiled harmoniously into her cauldron of mystifying production.
Her active membership with Degeneral Strike (
@degeneralstrike ), a non-profit Toronto collective promoting experimental sound and community-based music, brings together likeminded community driven activists that bolster the true underground scene.
Xicada has shared the stage with E-Saggila, Pessimist, Spike Hellis, Dis Fig, Black Ox Orkestar, Jessica Moss, and Hesaitix. Her work has been released on Halocline Trance, Foxy Digitalis, Borscht Records, and Aural Tethers.
Xicada’s performance at this year’s edition of Canada’s renowned festival, MUTEK, is another mile stone in her breakout year. In this carousel you will find clips of her performance at Pique Festival.
As we approach the day of rapture, Ilyse is preparing a unique (LIVE) performance for the eternal dance.
♾️❤️🔥
Constanz x Sorcery x Xicada x Dino Nydo
Date: November 15th
Venue:
@soundsgoodtoronto
Tickets: Ra.co/
“?p=Xicada” ✨✨