Cirkl

about

Liis Ring (formerly known as cirkl) is a (sound) artist, a musician, a wanderer, a thinker, a collector, a bird watcher, an idealist (and the list goes on depending on the day) currently based somewhere between Tallinn-Tartu/Estonia and Gothenburg/Sweden. Her first solo album, “Fables of a Faraway Land” was released in late 2014 by the Estonian indie record label Õunaviks, summing up the material of her youthful, searching years, thus placing a corner stone for the music yet to come. “Fables of a Faraway Land” is as contradictory as its content – it is a personal, self-reflecting diary-like album, softly lyrical yet fiercly dramatic. It is a weird yet surprisingly balanced mixture of r&b, indie pop, jazz and classical. The design and illustrations for the album were made by Eiko Ojala. In 2016, Liis Ring abandoned her pseudonym and self-released her EP "Satori". “Satori”, referring to the Buddhist "awakening" as well as the supernatural monsters from Japanese folklore, marks a new course towards a more conceptual approach to music writing. It is an album about something lost and something found and the places that witnessed it. “Satori” is site-specific, critical, juxtaposing time and space and questioning their constancy, exuding the same childish energy and sincere enthusiasm that “Fables of a Faraway Land” did. But "Satori" is maturer, the arrangements clearer and the overall sound more consistent. The characterisitic dreamy pop melodies are still present, but accompanied