Olicía

In the organizer's words:

Olicía creates futuristic soundscapes with organic improvisation: two voices, two loop stations, boundless genres. Avant-garde soul meets fragile folk moments - always innovative, pulsating, unique.

Olicía is the band of the two singers and multi-instrumentalists Fama M'Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp. Driven by female voices, they share lead vocals and other musical elements, layering, beatboxing, harmonizing and growing sounds that are partly in the now, partly in the future. The instrumentation ranges from synths and looped vocal snippets to guitar and clarinet. Genre boundaries have always been fluid for Olicía - fragile folk moments, pulsating pop, avant-garde soul, spoken word, jazz... Olicía's music always has a gently futuristic feel due to its unique form of creation using two synchronized loop stations. The constraints (and lengths) of loop-based music seem to be practically overridden by the two musicians, who create very direct songs with efficiency and elegance, without backing tracks and leaving room for improvisation and chance.