Zola Jesus at the Village Underground, London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
We were at Zola Jesus‘ London gig last night, part of her touring behind new album Okovi. Alberto Pezzali has the photos.
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“Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised,” Nika Danilova said of the record. “I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. Okovi was fed by this return to roots and several very personal traumas.”
“While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will.”
The tour now heads to mainland Europe and will be at Le Point Ephémère in Paris this evening.