With a background in fine art (UdK, Berlin/ California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles) INA VIOLA has been making music for the past eight years. She has collaborated on tracks with various artists: NHOAH (Berlin), Lulu Schmidt (Vienna/ Berlin) and DJ and sound artist Mieko Suzuki (Tokyo/ Berlin). Her longstanding participation in the TANGOWERK project and her ongoing collaboration with R.O.T. Artistkollektiv (Berlin) has seen her tour to Buenos Aires, Miami, Athens, Vienna, London, and Berlin, amongst others.

Now her first EP, featuring her own compositions and song writing, is being released. Ina Viola employs her clear, warm voice and bluesy timbre to interpret everyday moments, supported by electronic sounds, subtle textures and complex, melodic bass lines. Central to her songs – and her art practice in which she creates immersive kinetic installations – is a sense of being able to ‘lose oneself’ within them.

Track: Untouchable
Produced by: Ina Viola 
Music & Lyrics by: Ina Viola 
Mixed by: Philip Hansmann/ Tonklemptnerei, NHOAH
Stem Mastering + Additional Programmings : NHOAH
Arrangement: Ina Viola, Valeska Rautenberg

Label: http://www.r-o-t.de
Published by: Log Lady Music
Management: R.O.T respect or tolerate

Ina Viola – UNTOUCHABLE

Berlin Sounds for the Next Decade

Mieko Suzuki & Ina Viola - Place To Be

With a background in fine art (UdK, Berlin/ California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles) INA VIOLA has been making music for the past eight years. She has collaborated on tracks with various artists: NHOAH (Berlin), Lulu Schmidt (Vienna/ Berlin) and DJ and sound artist Mieko Suzuki (Tokyo/ Berlin). Her longstanding participation in the TANGOWERK project and her ongoing collaboration with R.O.T. Artistkollektiv (Berlin) has seen her tour to Buenos Aires, Miami, Athens, Vienna, London, and Berlin, amongst others.
Now her first EP, featuring her own compositions and song writing, is being released. Ina Viola employs her clear, warm voice and bluesy timbre to interpret everyday moments, supported by electronic sounds, subtle textures and complex, melodic bass lines. Central to her songs – and her art practice in which she creates immersive kinetic installations – is a sense of being able to ‘lose oneself’ within them.
The second song from the EP – ’SAND’ – will be released in April 2019.
SAND, the blissful picture of an infinite riding in the vast space of a landscape, enjoying beautifully coloured, endless deserted spaces. An electronic symphony of a thought that is translated in sound.

Sand

Ina Viola  Sand

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Ina Viola has been shaped not only by her years studying and apprenticing in Berlin and Los Angeles, but also – in addition to performing arts and music – by her other passion: off-road motorcycling. Outdoors, amidst the wide open spaces and the natural scenery, far away from the big city in some of the remotest locations in the world, she searches for something essential, fundamental – and tries to get back to basics! This is where she finds her sources of inspiration for her stories and sound compositions.

Her new single, SHEEP, was creating during a “rehab phase” in which she stayed in the Alps of South Tyrol and allowed her body to recover after a serious motorcycle crash. It was here, in the heart of this craggy, barren yet charming mountain landscape, that the artist found a fascinating simplicity, clarity, and a profound ancestral knowledge of how human beings interact with nature. She immersed herself fully in the world of the shepherds and sheepskin tanners, and a spiritual connection was forged. However, before this connection was destroyed by budding erotic feelings, she decided to leave… 

SHEEP is a bass-forward track that leisurely crescendoes into a harmonic melody before deconstructing itself in the purely instrumental staccato refrain, only to finish out by returning to pop-rock harmonies with a warm bluesy voice.

Sheep

Ina Viola - Sheep

With a background in fine art (UdK, Berlin/ California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles) INA VIOLA has been making music for the past eight years. She has collaborated on tracks with various artists: NHOAH (Berlin), Lulu Schmidt (Vienna/ Berlin) and DJ and sound artist Mieko Suzuki (Tokyo/ Berlin). Her longstanding participation in the TANGOWERK project and her ongoing collaboration with R.O.T. Artistkollektiv (Berlin) has seen her tour to Buenos Aires, Miami, Athens, Vienna, London, and Berlin, amongst others.

Now her first EP, featuring her own compositions and song writing, is being released. Ina Viola employs her clear, warm voice and bluesy timbre to interpret everyday moments, supported by electronic sounds, subtle textures and complex, melodic bass lines. Central to her songs – and her art practice in which she creates immersive kinetic installations – is a sense of being able to ‘lose oneself’ within them.

Ina Viola

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