Description
"Nagalite," the seventh release by multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer Lili Refrain, is a four-movement suite set to be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 27 March 2026 by Subsound Records.
The new work confirms the successful collaboration with producer Stefano Morabito and the independent label Subsound Records, following the previous studio album "MANA" (2022), a release that definitively established the Italian artist's international success. After that album, in addition to an intense schedule of headlining shows, she was invited to support prestigious artists such as experimental folk paladins Heilung and the historic gothic rock band The Cult on their extensive tours across Europe and the United Kingdom.
It was during her performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, as part of the tour with Heilung and Eivor, that the album "Live in London" (2024) was recorded -- a testament to her overwhelming performative power, a cathartic ritual capable of transcending genres and styles.
Blending folk metal, dark ambient, pagan ritual, psychedelia and operatic elements, and entirely composed, performed and sung by Lili Refrain, "Nagalite" combines in its title two words: "Naga," from Sanskrit, meaning "serpent," bearer of ancient knowledge; and "Lite," from the Greek lithos, "stone," something
that endures beyond space and time, embodying earth, world and family. From this fusion emerges a symbolic being -- a stone-serpent -- the living body of metamorphosis, emblem of an imaginary transformation through four serpentine alchemical states, the four tracks that make up the suite. It is a sonic reflection on an era marked by war and horror, in which the artist traces a possibility of resilience and new life.
"Nagalite is a reflection, a totem, a hope for transformation and rebirth in response to the dark times we are living through." Lili Refrain https://www.lilirefrain.com/
