Elektronik Body Girl - EBG (2022)

Emotional Response presents Elektronik Body Girl, a musical alter-ego of artist Shelbatra Jashari, with production support by soFa elsewhere. Spontaneously born out of 2 souls in an imaginary industrial wasteland, this Belgo-Albanian postpunk extravaganza is perfectly suited for unreal times.

Infused with raw attitude and an improvisational approach, Shelbatra is a cross-media artist, dancer, performer, and singer pushing expressive forms in new territories, challenging boundaries. She deals with the "empowering feminine” and its representation - a vision central to her artistic creation.

Teaming up with Brussels based soFa, they debut an EP of challenging storytelling. The rough percussives and atmospheric oeuvre fuse with Shelbatra’s performance, her vocals exploring roots in both Kosova and Belgium, from the position of “the other” or the outsider.

With a wonderfully conjured beatdown remix by label associate, Tolouse Low Trax, to act as a seal of (dis)approval, soFa’s recent collaborations as Mameen 3 (Bongo Joe), CCCVVV (Strangelove Music) and the highly praised Houschyar and Okay Temiz collaboration (Second Circle), has established him as a producer of repute in a short time.

Outside such “normality", together a different energy is heard. Exploring elements of the human body, the human condition, and its representation in various “thinking” systems and political contexts, EBG is manifestation in sound with movement.