HIRAKI and MEEJAH announce split EP and release first single and live session video

Photo Credit: Pelagic Records

Danish experimental artists MEEJAH and HIRAKI have unveil their new joint single 'Dead Calls' along with a live session video of the track. They have also announced the release of their split EP, INTERWOVEN, out 13th March via Pelagic Records.

Watch the live session here: https://youtu.be/GhFQ23GwDnQ

Stream the single and pre-order INTERWOVEN here: https://orcd.co/interwoven

Both bands jointly comment: "'Dead Calls' is our first single from INTERWOVEN. It’s the opener of the new year 2026, which will be dedicated to the MEEJAH x HIRAKI project where our two bands blend together to one big ensemble. We are happy to finally have arrived at the release date. We have worked intensity on exchanging ideas, music and dreams back and forth and interweaving the two bands - and we hope the European audience will embrace our music as well. It feels like a match made in heaven! Our new Tapetown Session filmed on the nose of Jutland in Denmark has captured and translated our energy so well. Enjoy!”

The INTERWOVEN collaboration has induced a new set of emphases for the two Danish bands, demanding MEEJAH to go darker and heavier, while moving HIRAKI towards an experiment of intertwining complex expressions in a longer format.

The themes on INTERWOVEN spawned in the dark stage room Gloria at Roskilde Festival during a The Ocean concert where Mai Soon Young Øvlisen from MEEJAH stood in the audience, overwhelmed with a fast stream of thoughts before her inner eyes.

Memories of the old East Berlin, the Book of the Dead, the heart weighed against a feather in the afterlife, innocence and revenge - and how the executioner becomes a victim to the loss of their own humanity. When suddenly Loïc Rossetti sat down in front of her - asking her if she was okay - as if he sensed that one day she would ask him to sing with her.

Through collaborations with the LLNN brothers Rasmus and Ketil Sejersen and their industrial, hardcore project John Cxnnor, HIRAKI and Meejah met The Oceans light designer Pierre Roi des Forêts - who helped them connect to Loïc.

HIRAKI and MEEJAH decided to exchange artistic powers, common music backgrounds, combined with their shared love for the underground scene. HIRAKI plugged onto the themes - adding their trademark aggressive style, new perspectives, lyrics about malice, control, contradictions and the existential self-awareness of one's choice to cause harm - and significantly broadened the artistic handprint.

INTERWOVEN is mixed by HIRAKI’s long time producer Klaus Q, and references common influential bands such as The Body, The Armed, Sightless Pit, Massive Attack, Julie Christmas and Death Engine.

Track list:

01. Redirect Revenge    
03. Preserve Manifest    
02. All Contrast    
04. Dead Calls