In Planets and Gods, Ukrainian artist Axxi Oma crafts a sonic cosmogony that feels ancient and futuristic. Conceived during an artistic residency in Amantea, a seaside town in southern Italy, the five-track EP channels local myths of mermaids and mountains through ethereal electronics and fractured pop melodies. The result is an atmospheric world suspended between folklore and science.
Each composition unfolds as a ritual chapter in a mythology of her making. Mermaid reimagines death as transformation, an invitation to descend and resurface, to dissolve identity into the depths. Wind of Amantea hums with minimalism, an ode to beings who move, speak, and feel without words. In Hunters, rhythmic tension builds a parable of intrusion and innocence, where pacifism meets the inevitability of conflict.
The closing tracks reach new highs. White Hole meditates on the paradox of hypothetical existence, turning theoretical physics into an existential whisper. Finally, Planets and Gods merge the celestial and the divine, suggesting that creation itself might be mechanical and mystical.
Beyond its conceptual architecture, the EP feels like an act of cultural reconstruction. Through fragmented voices and layered harmonies, Axxi Oma imagines a civilisation unbound by faith or language; a society defined instead by vibration, silence, and cyclical rebirth. It’s an idea that mirrors her own artistic identity: a creator translating emotion into energy.
“My debut EP, the sonic world that I’ve been building for the last year…is out,” she wrote on release day. “The idea was born during the La Guarimba music camp in the Italian city of Amantea. Planets and Gods is about a fictional world that exists nowhere but on all streaming platforms,” she added. Self-produced and independently released, Planets and Gods positions Axxi Oma within a lineage of introspective electronic visionaries, yet her voice feels entirely her own.
