Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm sit in the middle of a Venn diagram consisting of medieval inspired troubadour poetry, cinema soundtrack and primordial electronics. Initially known as FITH formed in Berlin by the duo writer/filmmaker/vocalist Dalia Neis, and the composer/producer Enir Da, their project expanded to become a revolving collective of musicians and poets spread out across a Paris/Manchester/Berlin axis. Gesturing toward ancient lineages of poetry and storytelling, Dali Muru is driven by the spell of the spoken word, minimal percussive refrains, oneiric textures & deep melodic synths, channeling cinematic imagery, enigmatic narratives & spiritual frenzy.

Their then self-titled debut self-titled LP FITH was released via their collectively run imprint Wanda Portal in November 2016. Their subsequent release Swamp was released on the London based imprint, Outer Reaches in 2018, and was a hallucinatory homage to the film of the same name by Argentine filmmaker, Lucrecia Martel.

Their latest release as a duo, and self-titled album project Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm has just come out on the Belgian label Stroom in 2022.

Singer, songwriter, keyboardist and visual artist from Fife, Scotland who makes experimental pop songs exploring softness and vulnerability in relation to the voice and manners of speech, accompanied by synths, trumpet and percussion to evoke places, both internal and external, connected with faith and being.

Incorporating music into her visual arts practice enabled her to collaborate with vocalist/MC Donald Hayden on the vocals for a soundscape exhibited at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2016 . They went on to perform together at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow in 2018. In the same year she completed a short course in sound production at Glasgow Academy of Music and Sound, met OKO DJ, former head of the Paris Department of LYL Radio, and created a mix for her show ‘Pu$$y Nightmare’. She continued to experiment and develop new approaches to songwriting, leading to a debut album that was released by record label Stroom.tv in 2020. Live performances include David Dale Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, The Old Hairdressers and The Doublet in Glasgow/Scotland, 1646 Gallery in The Hague/NL, Women's Sound in Kharkiv/Ukraine, Arkaoda in Berlin/Germany, Cafe Oto in London/UK, and at several events organised by music label Phase Group at The Flying Duck in Glasgow, supporting experimental electronic musicians such as Hiro Kone, Bare Bones Lay Low, Bocksrucker, and Ted Milton/Blurt. She also performed at events streamed online, Music for the Isolated Generation/Clyde Built Radio and Pop Mutations Festival. Her debut album ‘Time Together (Hues And Intensities)’ was described by Noel Gardner of The Quietus as “a seven-song serving of gossamer dub-pop experimentalism” and by Boomkat online as “striking”, “a memorable first impression[…]rooting or immersion in folk-pop allows Susannah to best mess with the form from the inside-out, locating something new and timelessly vital in archaic styles”. The album received positive acclaim from The Ransom Note and Happy Mag among others, as well as being featured in Mojo magazine’s Highest Rated Albums of 2020. Songs from this album have been played on radio stations including NTS (UK) Resonance FM (UK) KEXP (US) Strange Sounds from Beyond (NL) Clyde Built Radio (UK) Subcity (UK) The Slow Music Movement (PT) Lyl Radio (FR) FBI Radio (AU) BBC Radio 6 Music (UK) Fact Magazine (UK) and WNYU (US).

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