Gydja - Liber Babalon (Shadowlight Kommunikations, 2001)

1-01 The Holy Table (2:04)
1-02 The Birth Of Babalon (7:26)
1-03 Watchtower Of Earth (2:02)
1-04 Epinoia (10:09)
1-05 Pistis (8:05)
1-06 Sophia (7:07)
1-07 Prunikos (6:03)
1-08 Watchtower Of Air (2:03)
1-09 Moonrise At Midnight (7:08)
1-10 Waratah Blossoms (9:30)
1-11 She Is Flame Of Life (10:08)
2-01 Hymn To Babalon II (For Leila) (8:22)
2-02 Watchtower Of Fire (2:03)
2-03 For The Blood Is The Life (10:17)
2-04 The Virgin Of Eternity (6:52)
2-05 Shadowed With The Circle Of Stars (9:58)
2-06 Watchtower Of Water (1:46)
2-07 Hriliu (7:27)
2-08 Omari Tessala Marix (12:38)
2-09 AlphaOmega (A Drone For The Throne Of Babalon) (12:08)

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Gydja - Umbilicus Maris (Mystery Sea, 2007)

1 Beyond The Earth's Edge (8:47)
2 The Wave, With Red Stain Running (6:52)
3 Snakestone (11:29)
4 A Siren Stood Hymning Upon Each Circle (11:23)
5 Cold Water Flowing Forth (10:59)

"Nec satis procul ab hoc de quo praemisimus litore, contra occidentalem partem, profundissima aquarum illa vorago est, quam usitato nomine maris umbilicum vocamus. Quae bis in die fluctus absorbere et rursum evomere dicitur, sicut per universa illa litora accedentibus ac recedentibus fluctibus celeritate nimia fieri comprobatur.
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Not very far from this shore of which we have spoken, towards the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deep abyss of waters which we call 'the navel of the sea'. It is said twice a day to suck the waves into itself and spew them out again."

- Paulus Diaconus (Historia gentis Langobardorum)

Gydja (old Norse word for priestess) officiates since 1995, led by New Zealand muse Abby Helasdottir, also active in design & performance art, creating supernatural soundscapes with transforming potential.
Having contributed to various compilations, online projects, and rich in some collaborations (including one with Aidan Baker "Corpus Callosum", and another with Austrian musician Marunfura Fufunjiru "Ma-mo Rbad Gtong"), Gydja has also under its belt a series of self-released works ("Liber babalon", "Cold Seed", "Rivers..." to name, but a few...)... close to all are soaked with magical/shamanic connotations, obeying to some peculiar inner laws, merging electro-acoustic & experimental techniques, and formally often based on abstracted field-recordings...

On "umbilicus maris", Gydja drags us along a quest for a lost mythic world beyond frontier...

After a dazed drift in a foggy mangrove,
we reach an unmapped regio of concentric superimposing circles
& endless ripples
preparing us for a sheer descent into murky waters...
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adorning the dive,
huge, drowned thousand years stones
seem to betray an ancient ceremony,
a passage through Time
to a supreme Essence...
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Small lights flicker in the cold current,
and thoughts snake along the moss walls
whispering lunar tales...
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immersed in this strange universe, we grow
in constant mutation
at the mercy of the waves
towards a better Self...
Mystery Sea

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Gydja & Aidan Baker - Corpus Callosum (Koloform Records, 2003)

1 Gydja Interhemispheric Communication (7:09)
2 Gydja Interhemispheric Communication (Aidan Baker Remix) (8:16)
3 Aidan Baker Somatasensory (8:39)
4 Aidan Baker Somatasensory (Gydja Remix) (10:03)

Collaboration between Aidan Baker and Gydja, with each artist creating audio interpretations of a scan of a brain in the process of switching between two activities. Each interpretation was then remixed by the other artist.

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