Freya Edmondes is an improvising lyricist and beat producer working under the name Elvin Brandhi. Currently based between Berlin and Vienna where she studied at the Fine Art’s Academy, and is involved in performance groups that made public interventions, organising performances on construction sites and disused basements. Since 2013 she has performed and collaborated with many improvisors including Rhodri Davies, Eugene Chadbourne, Michael Fischer, Gustav Thomas, Greta Buitiké, THF Drenching, Alan Wilkinson, Ventil, WIDT, the former Jungle Brothers MC Sensational, Tony Allen and Pat Thomas. She has participated in various festivals including Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway, Kraak Festival, Brussels, Total Inertia Festival, Leeds, TUSK Festival, Newcastle, Sonic Acts festival, Amsterdam, Counterflows, Glasgow and Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) where she gave presented a paper on dismantling the frameworks and protocols of improvised music (‘Creative Agency, Quotidian Routines & Situated Performance as Critical Praxis’). In 2017 she was given a PRS Oram Award for Innovative Female Musicians; part of the award includes a commission to produce new work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and participated as a fellow of Raw academy, Senegal’s third session: ‘The five elements: Hip-hop Aesthetics and Politics ’ co-ordinated by the journalist-rappers ‘Journal Rappé’ where she collaborated with the political art movement ‘Y’en a Marre’ and the Artist collective ‘Nous entre Nous: Espace Médina’.
2025
2024
Ediciones Inauditas
LP, Ltd, Gat
2023
Hakuna Kulala
LP, Ltd
2021
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2019
2021
Zabte Sote
Cass, Album
2021
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2020
Opal Tapes
Cass, EP
2020
Haunter Records
8xFile, MP3, 320
2020
2020
2018
Sonic Cathedral
12", EP, Ltd, Cle
2025
Strange Weather Dunia
7xFile, MP3, Album, 320
2024
Danse Noire
LP, Album, Neo
2024
Heat Crimes
Cass, Album
2023
Danse Noire
9xFile, FLAC, Album
2023
Nashazphone
LP
2023
Haunter Records
11xFile, FLAC, Album
2023
2023
2022
Neoprimitive
Cass, Album
2022
Youth
CD, Single, S/Edition
2021
2020
Ventil (2)
LP, Album
2020
2020
2020
2020
2018
Slip, Opal Tapes
Cass, Album, Ltd
2018
Slip
Cass, Album
2016
2023
Dawn Records (6)
50xCD, Comp
2023
Shelter (9)
17xFile, WAV, Comp, Mixtape
2023
2022
A Flooded Need
23xFile, WAV, Comp
2021
c.a.n.v.a.s.
LP, Comp, Ltd
2020
Sounds From NoWhere
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2020
Wire Magazine
CD, Album, Comp
2020
Mute
CD
2020
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2019
Realia
LP, Comp
2019
2018
c.a.n.v.a.s.
Cass, Ltd, C40
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