“Reappearance” is the fourth chapter in the ongoing inner voyage of 
Hélène Vogelsinger, sonic explorer, composer, and sound alchemist.
This new opus continues to blur the boundaries between the spiritual and the sonic, 
offering a deeply immersive experience that reconnects with the self and the unseen.

With her signature fusion of minimalist sequences, ambient textures, and orchestral breaths, 
Hélène invites listeners to navigate the liminal spaces between disappearance and return.
If Ethereal Dissolution explored dissolution and memory, Reappearance evokes emergence 
and transformation, as if resurfacing from a long trance into a world both familiar and new.

Recorded between 2020 and 2023, and inspired by the silent energy of forgotten places and the echoes 
of solitude, this work extends a timeless dialogue between sound and soul, presence and absence.
More than an album, Reappearance is a ritual of return,delicate, hypnotic, and deeply resonant.

Revelation

“Like a Bird”, recorded live at IKLECTIK × Waterloo Festival, St John’s Church, Waterloo, London — 12 July 2025.

The original album version appears on Quiet Pieces, released 30 May 2025 via Soft Echoes.

Photo by Colin Hickie.

BUY ALBUM

Like a Bird (Live at IKLECTIK × Waterloo Festival, St John’s Church, London, 12 July 2025)

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-310-rafael-anton-irisarri

Tracking a personal and pivotal moment in his life, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s fateful album A Fragile Geography has shifted meanings from grief to resilience in the ten years since it was released. Irisarri’s mix for Bleep taps back into those initial feelings changed by time, highlighting glistening blankets of sound, gauzy chord sweeps, and romantic bittersweet swells amidst the swathes of blasting, folding harmonic noise. Ryuichi Sakamoto’s dreamily puffing organ chords waltz towards the swaying pendulum of piano on Bohren & Der Club Of Gore’s ‘Maximum Black’, revealing a jazz backing of noir drum shuffles. Mabe Fratti’s voice is soft and billowy like a cloud of perfume on her rework of ‘Hiatus’, dispersed by the privately reflective noise of Ethel Cain’s ‘Onanist’, both airily cushioning and sharply confronting.

“I made this mix for Bleep to celebrate the tenth anniversary and reissue of my album "A Fragile Geography". I structured the mix to mirror how grief moves through us. It's a haze of fragmented memories and emotions, drifting like smoke through dimly lit rooms with memory stained walls. Each song feels like a whispered thought, a fogged-up mirror, or a letter never sent. Some tracks feel soft and distant, while others hit a little harder. Grief doesn’t scream here; it sighs, loops, and lingers. Tape hiss, faint piano, distant voices, and time dissolved strings shape the sound. I wanted this mix to feel like memory itself: flickering, fading, and returning. Remember, forget, and remember all over again.” - Rafael Anton Irisarri

Enmity

J. Christopher Whelan