AJA IRELAND

Aja Ireland is an award-winning sound and performance artist making deconstructed club and industrial techno whose live shows are described in The WIRE Magazine as “Shifting from ethereal diffusions to potent explosions.”

Following her recent explorations at the intersection of visceral sound design, club culture and AI, British electronic artist (and founder of Queen Noise Club) Aja returns with her new album ‘Cryptid’ via Infinite Machine’ out on January 31st. A high-impact album steeped in themes of empowerment, resilience and mysticism. A vivid testament to the underground culture that shaped her, fusing blistering soundscapes, experimental lyrics, and club-ready energy to encapsulate Aja’s unique and confrontational artistry.

The album SLUG was released on Opal Tapes in October 2021. The video GRIME created by IMPATV and AJA, featured on Creative Review’s ‘Best Music Videos of 2021’ who described the track as: “brutal, visceral and unrelentingly noisy”.

Aja’s debut album released in 2018 on Opal Tapes was greeted with critical acclaim and the artist was featured in VICE, The Quietus, Elephant Magazine, Red Bull Music and The Dazed Magazine. IN 2018, Aja won the PRS Oram Award for innovative music production. Aja scored the spatial sound design for Joey Holder’s art installations Ophiux, Adcredo The Deep Belief Network (toured at Matt’s Gallery and 6th Athens Bienalle), Semelparous which was shown in The British Art Show and and Cryptic at Two Queens Gallery.

Quotes

“Her experimentation with field recordings and the limits of sound make for a captivating sonic experience, while the attention to the visual is reminiscent of the theatricality of artists such as Peaches.” – The Quietus

“Shifting from ethereal diffusions to potent explosions that toy with genre stereotypes, it transmutes trauma into a space that’s celebratory and defiant” – WIRE

“She transforms into some kind of giant. It is as if she becomes a 100-foot-tall Ann Darrow and the audience a relatively tiny gorilla, shaking in her gargantuan grip.” – VICE Magazine

“Wildly confrontational, thoroughly cathartic, and somehow very feminine while looking to transcend and trample over everything that femininity should be.” – Creative Review

“Bludgeoning slab of noise propelled by abrasive electro-industrial rhythms” – Louder Than War

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