Concert Recap: Sofia Isella at Empire Control Room
Alternative artist Sofia Isella played to a packed crowd at Empire Control Room on Nov. 6 with support from Ayleen Valentine.
Photos by Makenna Morgan
Alternative artist Sofia Isella played to a packed crowd at Empire Control Room on Nov. 6 with support from Ayleen Valentine.
Photos by Makenna Morgan
Indie-rock artist Ayleen Valentine opens the night with “wanted to **** myself today” off her newest album little rainbows after death.
Indie-rock artist Ayleen Valentine opens the night with “wanted to **** myself today” off her newest album little rainbows after death.
Valentine picks up her guitar to strum the haunting and sensual chords of “into me.”
Valentine tells the crowd to scream as she moves her guitar up and down during “into me.”
Sofia Isella pours out a water bottle as she runs onto the stage to perform her latest single, “Out in the Garden.”
Isella holds up her guitar as she sings the lyrics of “Out in the Garden”: “I’ll meet you out in the garden / Dressed like the enemy, nude and hardened.”
Isella holds up her guitar as she sings the lyrics of “Out in the Garden”: “I’ll meet you out in the garden / Dressed like the enemy, nude and hardened.”
Isella yells the piercing lyrics of “Out in the Garden”: “If you kill me, I, I won’t blink / Something is a shell, something’s hollow about me.”
A fan holds a sign reading “I flew 3755 miles from Hawaii" while singing along to “Out in the Garden.”
Isella holds up her hands to the sky before transitioning into “Hot Gum.”
Isella leans towards the crowd after grabbing her violin to play the yearning chords of “Hot Gum.”
Isella holds her hands out at the beginning of “Josephine” while she sings, “I wake up, holding a nightmare, remember nothing but the fear / I’m forgetting something, Josephine, where are you, my dear?”
Isella repeatedly pumps her violin in the air in despair during “Josephine.”
Isella walks through the crowd singing the hushed yet profound lyrics of “All of Human Knowledge Made Us Dumb”: “Turns out, all of human knowledge at our fingertips made us dumb / Lost my connection to reality stepping into a virtual one.”
Isella crowd surfs during “Orchestrated, Wet, Verboten.”