Olago summoned spectres and ritual grief through the mythopoetic lens of ‘Apophenia’

Emanating the haunting melancholy of Alexandre Cabanel’s Fallen Angel in the cover art of his debut EP, River Beneath the River: Act 1, Olago exists as an artist in the purest sense. Art doesn’t orbit him, it inhabits him. It’s the lens through which he consumes the world and refracts it back into reality via a confluence of poetry, mythology, and philosophy. The opening single, Apophenia, translates human emotion into cinematically Lynchian ambient post-punk form, calling on both spectres and sonic distortion to narrate its descent into the shadows. You can hear the echoes of sermonic iconography refracting through luminous transcendence while mournfully tempered bass strings ground the arrangement. There’s no indulgence in traditional structure here; Apophenia forsakes the obvious in favour of a fever dream held together by ethereal logic and poetic incantation. Resignation, repentance, and regret sit heavy in the track’s core, yet nothing about it is predictable. It’s all feeling, flickering somewhere between absolution and unrelenting sorrow. Born in Brazil and raised in Canada, Olago isn’t only a singer-songwriter and producer, but the sole creative director behind every facet of his world. From the 3D visuals to the performance, the branding to the myth-making, every aspect of […]

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