Anika (Live)
Support: Oravin
Politics, punk and poetry! Six years ago, the English journalist Anika Henderson made a successful career turn, plunging into music and interpreting songs by the likes of Yoko Ono and Bob Dylan in a stubbornly groovy cloak. On her debut album, produced by Portishead creator Geoff Barrow, Anika interweaves dub, punk, wave and no-wave, speaking rather than singing and appearing on stage like a diva, cold and aloof. Her cover versions have become underground hits and the album is part of many record collections across different generations.
Since then, Anika has kept reorienting herself and her artistic oeuvre. She has collaborated with Krautrock legends Kreidler in Berlin, worked on a multimedia project with video artist Phillip Geist in Tehran and established a band called Exploded View from scratch in Mexico City, who are on a world tour this year with their debut album. In the meantime, she uses her rare solo appearances for unique experiments, in which poetry, sound, music and visuals coalesce into a multidimensional performance, songs assume new shapes and guests join in. Anika reveals nearly unbelievable intermediate states of her diverse work, defying expectations and surprising everybody with a decisive, constantly evolving version of herself. Miraculously, she has so far never performed in Vienna before; this is her first time.
Pressestimmen
“She’s succeeded in so much as it still seems hard to get an idea of the real Henderson. Sure, she was once a Berlin-based journalist reporting on education reform, and lived in Bristol before that, but the majority of her releases have comprised fantastically dank, intimidating dub covers of pop and folk songs with BEAK> as her backing band, which haven't immediately conveyed a great deal about her. … What’s more radical is Henderson’s ascetic approach, which divests music about emotionally and physically abusive behavior of emotion, and sets songs by acts like Chromatics on the same level as those she covers by Dylan.” Pitchfork
Working with live visuals and analog synthesizers, the poet and audiovisual performer Oravin pushes perception to its limits: through flickering lights, blurred images, earpiercing frequencies and hard rhythms. Exploring the fields between noise and dance music, singing and chanting, words and wordlessness, he follows in the footsteps of both the German New Wave and the Austrian tradition of experimental poetry.
Credits
ANIKA (Live)
Support by Oravin
Visuals by Humatic
Special guest: Domeneck
Dates & Tickets
October 2016
brut 12 € / 15 €
brut
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
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