Sol Seppy is a cellist, pianist, singer-songwriter and producer from the United Kingdom with Greek and Australian influence. Her real name is Sophie Michalitsianos.

When she was twenty-three she moved to the US and after beeing a contributor on two sparklehorse albums, she was eventually able to afford moving to upstate New York, where she set up a studio of her own.

“Having the luxury of my own studio was great, but without an engineer to stop me, I destroyed most of what I wrote. To my dismay, my beloved music was turning into a gargantuan mirror and I couldn’t stand it. Barely any songs made it out alive; the studio was like a war zone.”

One night, while Sophie was out, there was an explosion in her studio, which promptly melted every piece of gear she owned, taking the whole house with it. She relocated, and began rebuilding another studio from scratch, and it was here that Sol Seppy began to manifest itself.

Sol Seppy’s music is a mixture of very intimate vocals oven an ethereal athmosphere… or as she describes it herself, “is a mixture of earth and space and dirt and glitter”. This album is beautiful and really worth listening to.

As the sole voice and creator behind Sol Seppy, Sophie landed not only the role of writer and performer of her first album (The Bells of 1 2), but also that of engineer and producer, with some additional mixing duties by Paul Antonell; all in all, a very substantial task for one person to surmount.

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A lovely interview from toazted.com where she explains the origin of the name Sol Seppy… pretty cool story.

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