Orshina – Requiem for “NOVA”

Orshina Turns Profound Grief into a Powerful Memorial on ‘Requiem for “NOVA”’

Orshina’s ‘Requiem for “NOVA”’ is a very personal album, born out of the depths of grief and loss and a need to find some kind of meaning in the aftermath. It was released on 7th October 2026 and is a memorial to her sister and her close friends as much as it is a message of remembrance for all those who were affected. The whole thing is imbued with such emotional weight that you can’t separate the music from the emotion. The process of making it was described by Orshina as a complete mental journey through tears, breakdowns and exhaustion. Each piece was a step in the process of working through the grief and trying to find a bit of comfort and a bit of hope. The six tracks take on some pretty dark subjects with titles such as ‘Graveyard Blues’, ‘Bread & Circus’, ‘Hell In Paradise’, ‘Rest In Music’, ‘Dressed up for the Devil’ and ‘Holocausts and Slavery’. It’s an album that is very much about the personal loss but also about the wider suffering and the contradictions of the world.

Musically Orshina is a fusion of psychedelic, electronic and rock. The influences are clearly there in the form of the atmospheric electronic work of Carbon Based Lifeforms, the grandiose experimentalism of Pink Floyd and the psychedelia of Infected Mushroom, Miktek and Shpongle. That’s the broad canvas on which the album is built, it’s an album about feeling rather than about providing answers. Maianne Tur (violin), Roey Brosh (drums), Idit Eshel and Shiran Tzfira (vocals) all make significant contributions to the arrangements. It’s a mix of electronic and live music which is very much the character of the project. Most of the album was recorded in Orshina’s own pro studio, the drums and mixing were done at Leon Sound Pro. It’s a very involved project and the music is very much the music of the experience.

At its very core it’s a simple but powerful plea: “Help me heal the world”. It’s not an album that’s trying to hide its pain or offer any kind of false reassurance. It’s an album that allows the pain, the anger, the exhaustion to be part of the process and in that process turns a state of total and utter brokenness into a state of remembrance. The constant refrain of “WE WILL NEVER FORGET” is the emotional spine of the project and it’s absolutely clear that these are songs to remember. It’s a very difficult album to listen to, it’s a very sad album to listen to, but it is also a very meaningful project. It’s a project that is about remembrance and about enduring and about perhaps in some way helping others to feel less alone. ‘Requiem for “NOVA”’ is a very personal piece of work which is also a very broad piece of work in terms of its message which is one of compassion and healing.

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