Discover The Land Of The Viola In The Hands Of Sophie Sirota For Holding Tension

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Discover The Land Of The Viola In The Hands Of Sophie Sirota For Holding Tension

29/9/2025

Sophie Sirota
Holding Tension
Coastal Electronauts

The superb quality of the viola and the delicate musicality of Sophie Sirota have a long relationship together. From working as a professional session musician, filling in the blanks for artists far and wide, and studying music at college, a wonderful career of making music and putting things together has followed. The founder of The Wrecking Crew agency, Sophie Sirota complements her talents with those of others, who in their wisdom, have decided to work with her light. Holding Tension is the first track from her recently released album. Last week’s Pressure Drop exemplifies the skill behind the finger work, as the tracks were meticulously performed week after week in Kent’s Coastal Electronauts' community. A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal and it is deeply personal, here is Holding Tension.

Strange digital sounds sparkle and grumble in the distant hum of forthcoming music. A jittery synthesiser tone then begins to swell and loop on a bowed fascination. Vocal sounds echo like phantoms in the mists of memory, calling from their past tense into the present with ethereal grace. Are we being pulled back, are they trying to reach us, or is this the manner of the natural universe? A mysterious flow of ambience builds as delicate notes find abstract sitting places within the mix. Oddly conjoined harmonies span galactic widths as their touching ends spark with fantastical clarity. The music builds and flows like the weather viewed from space, an ambiently decorative backdrop to contemplation and rumination.

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