Recording: Sook-Yin Lee

Artist: Sook-Yin Lee

Song: Narcolept, Falling

Recorded at 918 Bathurst (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 4), May 1, 2022.

Sook-Yin Lee - Narcolept, Falling

For the past three years, the Women From Space Festival has been an excellent encapsulation of its moment. Coming on the cusp of the First Big Lockdown, the 2020 Festival is remembered by many as the last event of the beforetimes, while last year's "hologram edition" was an elegant solution to the flatness of livestreams. And now, this year's Festival had to bear all the relief and angst of "returning to live" at this uncertain mid-point of the pandemic. Presented with joy and community spirit over four nights, the Festival was a chance to run into seldom-seen familiar faces and to hear a dizzying variety of sounds.

Closing out the festival, Sook-Yin Lee brought some of the songs from her final collaboration with Adam Litovitz, poems and wordbursts invoking the tonalties of stern folksongs and synthpunk rhythms, moving from dirge to dancefloor in the same uncertain path one moves from grief to something that is... not-grief.