Olicía

In the organizer's words:

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 two seem to practically override the constraints (and lengths) of loop-based music and create very direct songs with efficiency and elegance, which do without backing tracks and leave room for improvisation and chance.

In 2021, Olicía released their debut album Liquid Lines - a double album that juxtaposed each song on it in two completely different versions. Since then, they have released solo albums(in June) and band projects(NOUK, cocotá) on their own label o-cetera . They were part of Sophie Hunger 's live line-up , released music with Dota Kehr and Kat Frankie and contributed a song to the soundtrack of Robert Gwisdek 's directorial debut (Käptn Peng), but above all, the two have spent more than two years working on the songs and works that are now collected on Out of the Blue. While Liquid Lines explored the boundaries of the individual song, Out of the Blue is now an attempt to take a completely new look at their own art form, to connect their own music with other art genres through dialog and exchange.
For every song on this album there is a work of art with the same title, which functions as a counterpart and was created in a close exchange process. A result of constant pings and pongs until both sides felt they had found a result. Out of the Blue is therefore not what is often referred to as a "one-piece album". It is rather the opposite. Each song on it opens up a world of its own and at the same time looks into the parallel universe of another artist from fields such as film, design, painting, literature and arts and crafts. Each pair of works has its own space on the website of the band's own label o-cetera.com.
If one were to single out a central song, it would be the anthemic 'Finally' - a collaboration with the author Sudabeh Mohafez, who is admired by both musicians. 'Finally' is an evocation of female self-empowerment and resistance, but also a self-portrait within a long cultural tradition of women that looks at both facets of being 'out of the blue': the unexpected and unanticipated, but also stepping out of dejection and oppression towards autonomy and a powerful breath of relief. The accompanying prose text is both the basis of the song lyrics and part of the album artwork and can be read as a manifesto for this very unique album.

Olicía create a very special space at their concerts and we are delighted that they will be back in Hamburg on March 20 at the beautiful Nachtasyl.