Many artists struggle to create one intriguing persona, Kat Kikta, and her alter ego Sophia Aya, manage to be two.

Kikta’s alternative persona first appeared on our blog in August 2025, giving us a more ethereal and experimental sound to Kikta’s own releases (which are already quite experimental.) As a lover of boundary-pushing music, I was like a moth to the flame with it.

That August release was a remix of her own track, Cherry Trees, which made the tempo molasses and dubbed it Slow Trees. In a world of twenty-second attention spans, it took the bold choice of taking its time, building ambiently and hypnotically.

The latest Sophia Aya release continues in the same vein. Electra opens minimally but with a great amount of atmosphere. Cosmic overtones take you to a world far removed from our own. Twinkling percussion soothe and fascinate in equal measure, while long electronic notes linger. Ghostly vocalisations complete the soundscape.

The track unfolds gradually over six minutes with the subtle layers coming and going. You can help but be moved by it, especially if you take the time to switch off all distractions and listen with headphones, eyes closed. Then, it becomes a meditative experience.

“From the beginning with this track I was set on it being journey,” the artist explains. “The scale of the journey and the distances involved are not important. It could be souls traveling between galaxies, or it could be a journey of an impulse traveling though a nerve in a human body. The perspective and relativity is on the listener, but what’s fun for me is that they’re equally as moving, and its advantageous for the traveller, the listener, to be centred and at peace as they move.”                                        

There are two mixes of Electra, with a second Minimal Mix that strips things back further while retaining the compositions core elements. I found it to be a truly calming and fulfilling experience.

Kikta has a love of holistic healing and creative arts, shaped by a childhood in the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia. She brings those loves together beautifully with her projects, be it under her own name or the Sophia Aya label.

I’m a big fan, and I hope you will be too. You can find out more about her by following her on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok

A Kat Kikta album, Moldavite, is on its way, and we’ll be hearing plenty more from Sophia Aya too. While we wait, you can listen to Electra below.