! (pronounced Exclamation) is the debut album from MercuryKXs latest signing, electronic artist and harpist Lara Somogyi.

With !, Somogyi builds a new creative sound world an atmosphere based around the harp, its expressive capabilities and electronics. It is the result of a decades long dive into sonic exploration, which pushes the harp to its furthest potential. Here, we are introduced to a whole world of sound from a single instrument.

The LA-based musician and composer explains, Every single sound you hear on the album comes directly from the harp. I wanted to express everything this instrument can do.

For Lara, the release of ! revolves around further hyper-creative deviations from traditional harp techniques. Somogyi put blu-tack onto the strings. She used a bow. In one instance, a milk frother is used. There are deep layers of texture throughout, manipulating the harp into new frontiers. ! is like a journey. Moving from trance-like strings on album opener cceptances, through to glitched-out patterns on a later track like aviary, ! bridges the gap between the electronic and classical worlds with ease and brings many of the senses into play.

TRACKS
1 cceptances
2 in/Out
3 ||basis||
4 interior garens
5 hundred00
6 breathwork
7 llodges
8 aviary