Vera Sacra  – sacred spring

Today, experimental cellist and producer VERA SACRA has released her debut EP sacred spring.

Available now via EMI North Records label partner Launchpad+, the project arrives alongside an accompanying video for her track ‘when the world’s unkind’.

Anchored by VERA SACRA’s signature layered string textures and mesmeric percussive undercurrents, ‘when the world’s unkind’ unfolds as a meditation on the sanctuary love offers in the face of hostility. The final cut from her debut EP, the track serves as a connective thread, revisiting earlier themes of dislocation and transience. “I wanted to evoke the feeling of forgetting everything else when falling deep into someone’s comforting energy,” she explains, “I wrote it in a year where I felt very lost, constantly on the move.”

On the track’s visualiser, VERA SACRA shares: “I wanted to create something dreamlike and ethereal, like stepping into another world, so I invited my friend Sonya Shpynova, a filmmaker from Ukraine, to create a video. Sonya and I have a shared love of analogue techniques and originally planned to film on analogue film, but due to constraints, we opted for a DV camera using tape and shot the video in my flat. It seemed fitting given that I write a lot of my music there. Sonya was assisted on the day by Anna Kylchyk.”

Performing under the alias VERA SACRA, producer, vocalist, and classically-trained cellist Emily Marks has established herself at the forefront of  London’s boundary-pushing electronic experimental scene, supporting the likes of Flora Yin Wong, ddwy, wing!, and Moreish Idols along the way. Revered for her captivating, often improvisational live performances, Marks approached the composition of sacred spring as an exercise in grounding – a way to translate the experience of constant movement into a spectral, sonic form.

VERA SACRA explains the context of the EP: “I spent years moving between cities, countries, and identities — from studying Russian and Sociology in London, to living in the Baltics where I felt suspended in a strange, in-between space.

I feel so often that we are demanded to hold solid identities, clear senses of belonging and purpose. In ‘sacred spring’ I explore the challenges and beauty of liminality and the constant quest of finding a sense of home.”

Since launching her project in 2024 and signing to EMI North Records label partner Launchpad+, VERA SACRA has captured the attention of BBC Introducing, earning her a spot as one of their top artists to watch in 2025, alongside recognition from esteemed outlets The Line of Best Fit, DMY Magazine, and Selector Radio. With upcoming appearances across Sheffield and London, VERA SACRA continues to establish herself as a singular presence, redefining the frontiers of the underground electronic music scene.

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