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When asked to describe the circumstances that influenced her beautifully fraught new work, Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson—better known simply as Anika—quickly articulates a set of feelings and unpredictable circumstances that are familiar to anyone who tried to make art—or simply tried to live through—the recent global pandemic. “It’s a moment caught in time,” she says of Change, her much-anticipated new record. Given that it has been 11 years since the release of her last solo album, 2010 cult-favorite Anika, the artist suddenly found herself with a lot to say. “This album had been planned for a little while and the circumstances of its inception were quite different to what had been expected. This colored the album quite significantly. The lyrics were all written there on the spot. It’s a vomit of emotions, anxieties, empowerment, and of thoughts like—How can this go on? How can we go on?”

Having worked collaboratively in the past with the likes of BEAK> and Mexico City’s Exploded View, Change was ultimately the product of necessity. “After recording the initial ideas alone at Klangbild studios in Berlin, a few months later and by some stroke of luck, Mr. Martin Thulin of Exploded View, managed to make his way over from Mexico, to co-produce the album with me and play some live drums and bass,” recalls Anika. “Between Reality Baitz and Impression Recordings in Berlin, we managed to get the album together.

The intimacy of its creation and a palpable sense of global anxiety are seemingly baked into the DNA of Change. Spread across nine tracks, the central feeling of the record is one of heightened frustration buoyed by guarded optimism. The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or High Scores-era Boards of Canada, playing them against Anika’s remarkable voice—Nico-esque, beautifully plaintive, and—in regards to the record’s subject matter—totally resolute. Incantatory tracks like “Naysayer” and “Never Coming Back” are both, as Anika explains them, both a call to arms and a warning. “Never Coming Back” was written after reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” she explains. “I was living in the old East countryside outside of Berlin, where there seemed to be no shortage of birds. Apparently their numbers have dropped significantly, but it is one of these changes that we never really stop and notice. We take things for granted, until it’s too late. With all this other noise going on, care for the environment has quickly been moved to the back-burner. So long as we get what we want NOW and on demand, who cares about whether we are taking care of the future?”

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Occult Architecture Vol. 2

New Dawn

So Long..
Two mutants
Synthetic society
October 
2018




Screaming electric the atmosphere using.
At random glancing each asw I notice absorbing.

Swiftly on but a little while Alighting.
Curious envelop’d messages delivering.
So I pass a little time vocal, 
visible, contrary.
The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly, preparing.


Enough O deed impromptu and secret
Enough O gliding present
Enough O summd up past 

Enough O deed impromptu and secret
Enough O gliding present
Enough O summd up past 
Enough…

I recive now again of my many translations from my avatars ascending while others doubtless.


An unkown sphere more real that I
dream’d more direct darts awakening
rays about me.

So long!

Remember my words, I may again return,
 I depart from materials.

Enough O deed impromptu and secret
Enough O gliding present
Enough O summed up past

The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly, preparing.

Enough O deed impromptu and secret
Enough O gliding present
Enough O summed up past. X2

I recive now again of my many translations from my avatars ascending while others doubtless.

An unkown sphere more real that I
dream’d more direct darts awakening
rays about me.
So long!

Enough O deed impromptu and secret
Enough O gliding present
Enough O summed up past X2
Enough…

We are as one disembodied triumphant.

Synthetic society

So Long

Steeple Remove - Oval Strii  (Laurent Garnier Remix)

Waveclash

Congélation

Unreleased track

The new Crystalline Stricture album, 'Nouveau Neon'.
Out on cassette on TONN Recordings Bandcamp.
Image © Crystalline Stricture

Can't enjoy the sin before the neon wave

Liquid Obscene - Crystalline Stricture

"Subtle Ways" from upcoming Triumphant Race album "Subtle Ways"...

Lyrics:
You know me better than most,
you know the feelings I keep,
you know that memory is fleeting,
you know the ways of our sin,
you know the ways I would touch you,
you know the wars I have fought,
you know the ways I would kiss you,
you know me better than most...

Babe, don't you know that the seasons are dead?
Babe, don't you know that our reasons will hold till' the end?

Subtle Ways

From 'Sans Soleil'
https://this-is-the-bridge.bandcamp.com/album/sans-soleil

Rage Against The Dying Of The Light

Dark electronic, EBM, Dark disco Duo 
from the Southern hell🔥


From the cold and noisy nights, from the depths of emotions, from the darkness of the soul and life. A sordid, dark, hypnotic duo, with strong and energetic rhythms, with voices and deep basses that refer to the most decadent notes of the 80s and 90s, the dark synthesizers and abandoned apartments, the lonely discos. Immersed in their analog/digital synthetic atmosphere of emotions and noises, lost among electronic junk, among technologies, between lights and shadows.

During these years they have created several albums and EPs, they have also been recorded by different labels around the world, in countries like Germany, Belgium, Australia, Spain, Albania, Colombia and Peru.

So Long

Two mvtants

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