Nagalite

Description

After that album, in addition to an intense schedule of headlining shows, she was
invited to support prestigious artists such as experimental folk paladins Heilung and
the historic gothic rock band The Cult on their extensive tours across Europe and the
United Kingdom.
It was during her performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, as part of the
tour with Heilung and Eivor, that the album “Live in London” (2024) was recorded — a
testament to her overwhelming performative power, a cathartic ritual capable of
transcending genres and styles.
Blending folk metal, dark ambient, pagan ritual, psychedelia and operatic elements,
and entirely composed, performed and sung by Lili Refrain, “Nagalite” combines in its
title two words: “Naga,” from Sanskrit, meaning “serpent,” bearer of ancient knowledge;
and “Lite,” from the Greek lithos, “stone,” something
that endures beyond space and time, embodying earth, world and family. From this
fusion emerges a symbolic being — a stone- serpent — the living body of
metamorphosis, emblem of an imaginary transformation through four serpentine
alchemical states, the four tracks that make up the suite. It is a sonic reflection on an
era marked by war and horror, in which the artist traces a possibility of resilience and
new life.