NIMF

Irish composer, sound designer and performance artist Aoibhín Redmond - known as NIMF - presents Sirenoscape, an album of transmutation and transcendental terror.

Written, recorded, composed and produced in full by Redmond from her base in New Jersey, the record pushes beyond dark ambient into a realm where cinematic sound dramaturgy and cosmic-horror narrative coalesce into something liminal and uncannily alive. Comprising four scenes, the album functions as a sequence of ritual enactments: diegetic musicians performing within acoustic worlds that gradually dissolve into immateriality and ecstatic transit by way of metaphysical rupture.

Sirenoscape arrives during a period of intense performance activity for Redmond. September saw a critically acclaimed Irish tour across Dublin, Belfast, Sligo and beyond, alongside major appearances including supporting Drew McDowall (ex-Coil) in Dublin, performing within the Nurse With Wound / Steven Stapleton exhibition at Gallery X, and a series of shows across New Jersey and Pennsylvania on bills with artists such as David E. Williams. These appearances have cemented NIMF as one of the most forward-pushing voices working in ritual electronics and experimental folk; her very own contemporary dark ambient.

Grey Malkin of The Hare and the Moon said: “Listening to Sirenoscape, I find myself completely and willingly immersed, it’s an absorbing and incredible piece of work. I particularly love the deconstruction of the folk elements, like ‘Willie O’Winsbury’, how they appear and then dissipate within the darker landscapes like ghosts — there’s a primal, ritualistic quality that conjures up a wealth of imagery. Indeed, the album is highly visual as a whole, descriptive and transportive — it takes me to many different (haunted) places. The otherworldly ‘Echoed as a Rhythm Against Reality’ is a personal favourite, very Arthur Machen.”

Brian J. Showers of Swan River Press said: "Sirenoscape is an invocative séance on the distant shores of some long-dead sea. Full worlds emerge from each of NIMF’s compositions; ritualistic echoes resonate, cyclical, ever-repeating, somehow comforting in their desolation. Sirenoscape is an album of presence(s). There are mysteries in these soundscapes reminiscent of literature’s most disconcerting weird tales. Listen in the small hours."

The album’s force was also captured in a reflection by experimental composer Brian Conniffe, who writes: “These songs are evocations of the elements, where a heightened glimpse of nature suddenly slips with a stray step into the Otherworld... folk melody and marching rhythm merge and melt deliciously, ultimately to envelop utterly in the uncanny. This is magical music, and there are sublime secrets in these songs.”

Sirenoscape is released as a three-label collaboration: the CD edition on Ireland’s Cursed Monk Records and the cassette editions via Fiadh Productions and Camellia Sinensis Records in the U.S and IRE/UK respectively. Together, the trio provide a transatlantic framework that mirrors the album’s own liminal architecture: a work in which dissolution and transcendence fold into each other without boundary.

A metaphysical transmission rendered in sound, Sirenoscape is a sensorial threshold crossed, a world dissolved and reborn. The album is released Friday, 6th March 2026