On top of the world . Ninca Leece remix

a first take, long version, rough mix from my upcoming album unpolished:
a studio session with my good friends Yann Tordeonde Lesueur, Yonatan Levi and Tim kroker, so many thanks to them for sounding incredible...

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Ninca Leece live (Magdeburg, DE)

ninca leece is new to thesongsays, but not new to the scene. a trained musician, a jogger, and damn good cook, she's been toiling for years in studios and on small computers far and wide. with an album already under her belt on bureau b (a sub-label of tapete records), she brings her forward-thinking productions to thesongsays ... and romantic techno moves forward. feed me rainbows is the result of ninca's fairy tale-like productions. and by "fairy tale," we mean there's a story behind it: hidden in the claps, in the wall of sound, the soft kicks and bubbling bass lines, there's something delicate and magical moving through it constantly, something not easily pin-ponted. perhaps the answers are in those whispers stretching throughout? or maybe it's when the clouds of noise part, when the abstract melodies subside midway and we are left with the bare bones of the track - a single guitar plucking harmonics, underpinned by a strangely disharmonic whine. by the track's end, and like all good cliff-hangers, we are left with a sensation that something else is going to happen. our happiness wasn't in vain but more of an investment in what's to come. we feel there is a sequel ... and we hope there's even more after that. feed me rainbows two on the b side, public lover (ninca leece and bruno pronsato) take this fairy tale to a more sultry and conclusive level: turning the beauty into something naughty, a one-night stand if you will. and what better way than a huge bass line, rhodes, and the couple singing in her native french, "donne-moi des arcs-en-ciel?" as a whole, public lover seems to be grabbing minute pieces here and there from the original, teasing you for an entire 16 minutes of vocal snippets, rhodes, bubbles, ninca blowing her nose, and wobbly guitars. it's ladies night in their story, and we feel it's a sure-fire after-hour cut exclusively for only the dingiest parties ... we hope you agree. 

Feed me rainbows

Brazil, China, Poland, Finland, Japan, Russia, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy: Ninca Leece, a trained vocalist and indie artist at heart, has certainly gone the distance to bring her very own interpretation of contemporary electronic pop music to the people. And it goes something like this: musically socialized through early New Order and My Bloody Valentine, Ninca conjures up immortal melodies out of experimental electronic dance, aided by her box of tricks (her "laboratory", as she calls it). She flirts dreamily with synth pop, mixing the whole thing up with a sprinkling of noise, analogue instruments and field recordings. ‘While the record has its roots in an icy, north-European aesthetic, Leece's vocals add a warmth that elevates these tracks from nightclub back room to crossover pop material.’

She modestly describes her first album, ‘There is no one else when I lay down and dream,’ released on Bureau B in 2010 as "a collection of my experiments in sound and emotions ¬ lots of funny little things, broken hearted sounds and melodies. It's about glitchiness, quirkiness, sexiness."

Ninca Leece spent her youth in Rennes, France before, on coming of age, moving to Holland. Rotterdam & Amsterdam, to be precise, where she studied music production and singing. ''She eventually wound up in Berlin, a city whose imprint is indelibly registered on Leece’s music: you’ll find the glitchy bounce of the micro-house so prevalent in the area, but also remnants of the turn of the century marriage of indie rock and electronic sensibilities.'' Since then, she has toured the globe as musician, composer, singer and producer, resolutely defending her musical independence, which is so important to her.

Her concept evolves musically and aesthetically as she intertwines her love for analogue instruments with toy keyboards, percussions. Her show is based upon a visual interaction with her music whenever it is possible ––a lush audio-visual affair led by her own endearing vocals.

Her ep 'Feed me rainbows' was released on thesongsays in spring 2010 with amazing reviews all around.

Her collaboration with Bruno Pronsato (Public Lover), has many critics and fans grasping for more. The duo has released two singles - 'Musique d'Hiver pour l'Eté on thesongsays and 'Naked figures' on Telegraph records in 2011, and they finally released their first opus 'A broken Shape of you' in February 2012, which was warmly welcomed by critics (the album received the prestigious Télérama 4 keys in France). Their style immediately struck a chord, with their song "I Try" landing in Resident Advisor's top tracks of the year. The duo has since played live around the world, from Panorama bar to Warehouse 702 in Tokyo, to Seattle’s Decibel festival .

She wrote the score for ‘Breaking Horizons’ (‘Am Himmel der Tag’ – directed by Pola Beck), which has been invited by many international Film festivals and has won many prices (Zürich International film festival price for best German movie / Hessischer Filmpreis 2013 for best movie etc).


She has been commissioned in 2016 to work on the sound of an installation for the "+ultra gestaltung schafft wissen" exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (30.9.16/18.1.17).

for booking/info: nincaleece@gmail.com

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