'Interwoven' is a four-track split EP that binds together two of Denmark’s most forward-thinking heavy acts: HIRAKI and Meejah. Built on a shared appetite for boundary-pushing intensity, the collaboration channels the urgency of electronic hardcore, the spaciousness of experimental rock, and the emotional depth of cinematic metal into an immersive work that is at once confrontational and deeply connective. Across these four tracks, both bands challenge each other to step past familiar contours, unraveling and recombining their musical identities until a new hybrid shape emerges—volatile, textured, and unmistakably alive.
The idea to 'Interwoven' spawned in the dark stage room Gloria at Roskilde Festival 2022 during a concert by The Ocean where Mai Soon Young Øvlisen from Meejah stood in the audience, overwhelmed with a fast stream of thoughts before her inner eyes. Memories of the old East Berlin, the Book of the Dead, the black kitten she briefly had as a child, the heart weighed against a feather in the afterlife, when suddenly The Ocean's vocalist Loïc Rossetti sat down in front of her - asking her if she was okay... “almost as if he sensed that one day he would ask me to sing a duet with him”, Meejah vocalist Mai Soon Young Øvlisen recalls.
HIRAKI, based in Aarhus, have carved out their own corner of abrasive electronic noise and fractured hardcore, marked by glitching synths, angular rhythms, and vocals that turn vulnerability into propulsion. Their music often feels like a system under pressure—fault lines spreading, signals clipping, tension breaking through in unpredictable bursts. The trio’s approach is raw yet meticulously sculpted, shaped by an instinct for pushing machinery, sound, and emotion to their limits.
Meejah, founded in Copenhagen, represent the other end of Denmark’s experimental spectrum: wide-ranging, atmospheric, and narratively rich. Drawing from avant-metal, post-rock, and electronic ambience, their compositions unfold in layers—meditative one moment, eruptive the next. The band’s work often feels like an exploration of liminal spaces, where cultural, sonic, and personal identities dissolve and reform in real time. Their ability to move fluidly between delicacy and ferocity makes them a natural counterpoint to HIRAKI’s sharper edges.
'Interwoven' does not simply alternate between these worlds; it melds them. The EP imagines a collaborative environment in which both bands enter as architects of distinct sonic structures, yet leave as contributors to a shared, shifting organism. Instead of placing aesthetics side by side, the musicians blur roles and responsibilities.
Split 12 inch vinyl EP in a gatefold sleeve
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Redirect Revenge - Meejah feat. HIRAKI & Loic Rossetti
2. All Contrast - HIRAKI feat. Meejah
Side B:
3. Preserve/Manifest - HIRAKI feat. Meejah
4. Dead Calls - Meejah feat. HIRAKI
