10-min excerpt from my headline show at Roundhouse in Nov 2025 here
artwork | Pierre Engelhard
contact@geoaghinea.com
Growing up with the chants & Doinas* of their Romanian grandmother, Geo developed a hauntingly ornamental vocal style that form the core of their live vocal-scapes. Through their modular synth, Geo shapes analogue sound to bend with similar melismatic fluidity. At this intersection lies their special connection to Bucharest’s queer scene, where their love for electronic music first began.
Geo is a musician living with severe hearing loss, a perspective that informs their heightened sensitivity to frequency and space. Their hearing aids are not a constraint but an instrument, shaping both their sonic architecture and vocal presence.
Geo’s genre-defying work is an extension of their identity, fluid and transformative. This is evident in their debut left-field EP, I’ll Hand You A Hand (2023), and with Gynodioecious (2025), Geo is set to push sonic experimentation even further. More TBA.
Doina* is a highly ornamented, melismatic, and microtonal Romanian musical style, traditionally vocal and often improvisational, recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Oram Awards (2023) for innovation in sound, music & related technologies
- Electronic Music Award (2024) Help Musicians x DJ Mag
- Sound of the Year Awards (2024), shortlisted under ‘Composed with Sound’ x Accidental Records
Press
- appeared as guest in the Instagram x Fred Again, Ask It Anyway...
- featured as one of Mastercard's music trailblazers ahead of the BRIT Awards x Future Sound of Britain campaign
Live
- Roundhouse in the main space (2025) alongside Tom Odell
- Roundhouse studio theatre, the Gynodioecious Experience, headline show (2025)
- The Great Escape (2025)
- LSO St Lukes (2024)
- Glasshouse International Centre for Music (2024)
- Niche Sounds - The Baths (2023)
- SXSW London (4th & 6th June 2025 with Dar Disku & Trans Voices), boycotted in solidarity with artists' movement for Palestine
Residencies
- Roundhouse selected resident artist (2024/25)
- Summer Studios at Glasshouse International Centre for Music (2024)
Airplay
- NTS Radio via Tarzsa Williams’ mix
- Crack Magazine via Venus Ex Machina’s mix
- Soho Radio (performance & interview with Max Reinhardt)
Tracklist
- Gynodioecious
- Happy Sad Song
- Frustration Borns Introspection
- Call Me Mistress
- Pass On A Smile, They Don’t Like That Here
- () Come And Go
- Eventually, We All End Up Alone
more TBC
realeasing...
Blending dark, yet ethereal synths with chest-pounding bass, Gynodioecious unfolds universal experiences such as clubbing, sexuality, relationships, self-identity (& reclaiming space).
All sounds, synth and textures were designed from scratch, which gives the EP a grounded sonic identity even as it moves through diverse sonic territories. The tracklist makes for a dynamic listening journey: from being at home contemplating, to heading out into euphoric nightscapes, and returning transformed, reflective once more.
More TBA
Credits
written, produced and performed by Geo Aghinea
mixed by James Rand & Luciano Rossi
mastered by James Trevascus
recording engineer (vocals): Emilia Buchanan for 'Gynodioecious’
artwork(s) by Pierre Engelhard
special thanks to Help Musicians
Tracklist
- A Bird’s Wings
- Fell In Love With An Alien
-
Emotional Room
-
I Could Be That Someone
-
I’ll Hand You A Hand
released in 2023
This body of work was self-produced with a pair of 6-year old hearing aids lacking mid & low frequency information. As a result, it features synthetic & metallic sounds, which I instinctively gravited towards at the time.
Excerpts from notes taken at the time of writing the I’ll Hand You A Hand as follows:
‘I am in the process of questioning my acceptance towards everything surrounding me moving further on while fighting the need to feel grounded.
People I met once and deeply connected with will leave and I will remain in the same place, reminiscing the memories, hoping they’ll sometime come back. I craved continuity and life gave me transience.’
‘I am in the process of questioning my acceptance towards everything surrounding me moving further on while fighting the need to feel grounded.
People I met once and deeply connected with will leave and I will remain in the same place, reminiscing the memories, hoping they’ll sometime come back. I craved continuity and life gave me transience.’
Credits
written, produced and performed by Geo Aghinea
mixed by Luciano Rossi
mastered by James Trevascus
recording engineer (vocals): Emilia Buchanan
'A Bird's Wings', 'Fell In Love With an Alien' & 'Emotional Room’
artwork(s) by Alina Negoita
book me at
contact@geoaghinea.com
Live EP Launch - The Gynodioecious Experience | Roundhouse Nov 19 | merging art installation with sound in collaboration with Pierre Engelhard & Georges Engelhard
London, UK
Past | Recent
Roundhouse Main Space supporting Tom Odell | 2025
London, UK
Roundhouse Theatre 360 Festival Showcase | 2025
London, UK
The Great Escape, Komedia | 2025
Brighton, UK
SXSW, with Dar Disku, 93 Feet East | 2025
London, UK
SXSW with Trans Voices, Ninety One Living Room | 2025
London, UK
The SXSW gigs were boycotted in solidarity with artist-led movements for Palestine
contribution: sound design | Ugly Duck
contribution: backing vocals | Trans Voices
contribution: live vocal performance | Brooke Benington
contribution: live vocal performance | The Crypt Gallery
contribution: backing vocals with Trans Voices
I had the pleasure of being part of HAAi’s new upcoming album, where I sang with Trans Voices who are featured on some of the records.
contribution: vocal improvisation
contribution: vocal arrangement for soundtrack