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Soothe by HEZEN

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Invisible Flock and HEZEN at the Drifts Festival in Helsinki

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HEZEN merges experimental pop, club music, and ethereal vocals into a genre-fluid, immersive world. Her performances, from small warehouses to the V&A, push boundaries, often including members of the audience, and collaborating with London’s queer community in experiments with movement and set design.

She’s been having an important impact in the European club scene since 2025, as resident and music curator of London’s lauded collective, playbody.

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HEZEN

HEZEN is a French multi-disciplinary artist & DJ based in London, as well as a @playbody.studio resident artist and curator. Her genre-fluid stories of love, loss, resilience and vulnerability explore the liminal space between the alien and the primordial, blending club music with avant-pop elements.

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