Listen to NFNR’s new album, ‘Dog Rose’

Individualist experimental producer NFNR, which stands for Neither Famous Nor Rich - aka Olesia Onykiienko - has released her album ‘Dog Rose’.

Available on Corridor Audio, the album consists of six tracks with varied meanings underpinning them.

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‘Dog Rose’ explores the world’s temperamentality via a collection of distorted electronic soundscapes and industrial tones. There are notes of basslines and synth incorporated, too.

On the release, Onykiienko explains: “The songs on the album are about own transformations and states: ‘Chorda’ about finding inner strength, obsession and pursuit of one's own dreams in ‘Ahab’, and about the sudden forced calm at the start of the lockdown, which hit everyone via ‘Cards Against Humanity’ and ‘Dice2’.

“It also explores us being cruelly made to watch through the window, as spring is gaining momentum, which made me stop and enjoy the delicate rosehip flower from my loved one, in ‘Dog Rose’. These states were resolved in the composition of 'Eros Bird' - the triumphant pleasure of both being and a sense of unity”

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Onykiienko, born and based in Ukraine, was due to begin her residency at London’s Battersea Arts Centre prior to lockdown.

Although this was interrupted, she used the time to experiment musically - and has also established herself as a curator of the experimental platform Women’s Sound, for women and non-binary people in Ukraine.

Listen to NFNR’s album, ‘Dog Rose’, here.

Tracklist:

1. Cards Against Humanity

2. Dice 2

3. Ahab

4. Chorda

5. Dog Rose

6. Eros Bird

Niamh Ingram is Mixmag’s Weekend Editor, follow her on Twitter