"words don’t come easy" is the first album by the new duo IMMA, rooted in a shared sonic curiosity between electroacoustic singer-songwriter Daniella Ljungsberg and multimedia artist and composer Itzik Gil Avizohar.

While each comes from a different musical world, one shaped by voice, intimacy, and traces of Nordic folklore; the other by distorted sound walls and sonic intensities drawn from a deep fascination with metal culture, their collaboration reveals a mutual attunement to the haunting presence of sound. Like distant echoes of traditions, this album is less about stylistic fusion than about an ever-evolving friendship.

Together, they hold polarities in tension with a consonant sensitivity: vast sonic spaces, emotional density, and the quiet pull of things held just before they collapse. Their music moves along blurred edges, between structured songs and polished sketches, free improvisation and defined form. Ljungsberg’s voice and subtly addictive melodies lead like a ray of light through the dense spectral fog shaped by Avizohar’s synthesis, sparsely unfolding across his repetitive basslines.

There is no central statement here. The songs announce themselves. They rest in unresolved moments, like fragments of eroded memory.

"words don’t come easy" is not a title, but a shared condition.

All songs written, produced, and recorded by IMMA
Daniella Ljungsberg – vocals, electronics
Itzik Gil Avizohar – bass guitar, electronics
Lyrics by Daniella Ljungsberg

Additional vocals on fault song by MC Slice
Drums on watchman's song by Uri Rennert

Recorded at Studio St. Rémy
Mixed by Yair Elazar Glotman
Mastered by James Ginzburg

Album cover 'Ancestral Shrine' by Dana Weingart

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