Enyang Ha

Enyang Ha emigrated to Berlin eleven years ago to ingratiate herself with the city’s vibrant local music scene. She’d grown up in South Korea, but decamped to the USA – Kentucky, to be exact – when she was just 14, staying a while before moving to Tokyo to study. Now an in-demand technician who’s worked alongside boundary-pushing artists like Arca, Amnesia Scanner and Perera Elsewhere, Ha produced, mixed and mastered her debut herself at her studio in Berlin’s renowned Funkhaus complex. Most recently, Ha undertook a residency at Callie’s, a Berlin-based non-profit exhibition space, composing and singing a contemporary Korean folk opera piece and rendering it in spatial audio. Ha channels these experiences and skills into music that speaks to a diverse global landscape where borders are as malleable as warm gold. Her prismatic understanding of culture gives her sounds a sensitivity and vulnerability that’s universal but never ornate – she finds beauty in ear-splitting distortion, and complexity in sanguine radio pop.

“In our cycling time,” Ha sings on ‘Golden Tree’. “There are things that remind us from our deepest memory where we meet, where we unfold our space.” Her words cascade over taut breaks and euphoric synths, reminding of trip-hop and simmering K-pop. But there’s neither rigid past nor firm present in her music – Ha sees time as a cycle, where memory and familiarity can help unfold our inner worlds each time we’re reborn.