The second single 'Illusion II' of L Twills' new work [After her Destruction] is coming 16th February 2024


In the cybernetic sci-fi opera '[After her Destruction]', its protagonist Girl embarks on a journey through her own mind to find out whether it has mutated. The Art of Mind, a computer program Girl finds on the internet, makes it possible.
Within the 10 video chapters, Girl meets various characters and animals, such as the Mysterious Lady Without Name, the Lady‘s Lover, the Fortune Teller who travels through time, the Mutant, a Superego, an Albino Boa and her mother MOW. As Girl undergoes multiple epiphanies, such as discovering her own Schizo-Body, matrix translates as womb, time cannot be seen or touched, no one can possess beauty and some people are afraid of change, mutations eventually uncover as a portal to unknown territories of imagination.

Written, recorded, produced and performed by L Twills
Mixed and mastered by Helge Hasselberg
Vinylmastering by Ramona Records (Martin Sukale)
Single Cover Art (film still) by Helena Wittmann
Supported by Initiative gGmbH with project funds from the Federel Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
In cooperation with Hanseplatte and Misitunes

Illusion II

'Liberating and haunting all at once' (EARMILK), L Twills presents a multi-faceted Gesamtkunstwerk, a concept-album that blends critical storytelling, video-art, costume-making, dance, performance and pop-underground. The project comprises a limited edition double vinyl with 22 songs, a 12 page photo booklet and 11 video chapters. 

The album was created in diffferent recording phases in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Trieste between 2021 and 2023. It features exciting collaborations with interntional artists such as filmmaker Helena Wittmann, artist Elliot Reed and dancer Ophelia Young, to name a few.

[After Her Destruction] tells the story of Girl, who, using a computer program named The Art of Mind, moves through the matrix of her own perception, to find out whether it has mutated, thereby  confronting questions of identity, class and queerness. L Twills convinces with her original songwriting approach through converging electro-acoustic composition, avant-pop arrangements, metuculous sound-design and her distinctive voice. Aiming to create experiences of the unexpected, the artist fosters what she calls „imaginative listening“.

„For me imaginative listening or in other words imaginative reflection, which includes the confrontation of painful and traumatic memories, is at the core of change and emancipation. In this sense the electro-acoustic worlds in [After her Destruction] draw it's listeners into emotional spaces of reflection.“

L Twills' explorations of voice and sound result in an intimate yet urgent unearthing of feelings, energies and memories. Citing Ryuichi Sakamoto, Portishead, Meredith Monk, AHNONI, Roberta Flack and Diamanda Galas as her main influences for [After Her Destruction], L Twills has created an idiosyncratic and unique sonic world whose spell leaves a lasting imprint. 

The videos for [After her Destruction] were shot in collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Helena Wittmann (Locarno Filmfest) and stares international performers, actresses, artists and activists like Elliot Reed (Moma PS1), Ophelia Young (Pina Bausch Ensemble, Ballett Basel), Linda Elsner (Schauspielhaus Dortmund), Don Jegosah, Sibylle Peters (FUNDUS Theater, Tate Modern), Haiqing Wang, Anto López Espinosa, Luïza Luz, Suma Abdelsamie (Founder of LGBTQI+ Refugees Greece), Rebecca de Toro, Lex Callimero and Frieda Toranzo Jäger (Moma PS1, Reena Spaulings). (Full team credits see in opera exposé).

Epilog [Mu'tants]

Dream V: [However, what remains is arranged by the Bombs!]

Apparatus IV: [Imagination]

Dream IV: [Mutant]

Post-Crazy

Chaos

Dream III: [Ballad of Emotional Dependancy]

Apparatus III: [Superego]

Elegy I

Moth

Crazy

Love?

Dream II: [Manic Old Woman]

Illusion I: [Divisions]

Apparatus II: [1994]

Dream I: [Matrix]

Apparatus I: [The Art of Mind]

Prolog [Mu'tants]

[𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧] is not merely an album; blending multimedia art and pop-underground, L Twills presents a multi-faceted Gesamtkunstwerk with her sophomore release. Her exploration of voice and sound is an amalgamation of breakbeat, soundtrack, and avant-pop with sonic pioneering, resulting in an intimate yet urgent unearthing of feelings, energies and memories for which there are “no words”. 

The third single and fifth track on L Twills' upcoming double album, 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈: [𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬] creates an atmosphere of vulnerability and strength. A fast beating kick pushes the song forward, creating tempo, whilst the piano and synth elements follow a slower pace, opening a space for mourning and reflection. The lyrics of the song are dedicated to Girls mother MOW (Manic Old Woman). It talks about the fears and hopes involved in motherhood and the struggles related to depression, poverty and being a single mother. Work ideology as well as the stigmatization of poverty, illness and unemployment are a fundament of all capitalistic societies. In Germany there is a specific ideological understanding of normativity and obedience rooted in the country's fascist history and the invention of the socalled Asocials (Asoziale). It was used to discriminate all people that weren't Jewish, but would not fit the system's doctrine in other ways, like for example sex workers, homosexuals, people that weren't seen as "arian", communists, anarchists and neuro-diverse people. These values resurface in the contemporary time, when somone is, for one or another reason, falling out of what is understood as a normatively functioning and therefore obediently working human being.

𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈: [𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬] will be out 8th December 2023

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ALBUM CREDITS: 
Written, recorded, produced and performed by L Twills
Mixed and mastered by Helge Hasselberg
Single Cover Art: Louisa Boeszoermeny
Supported by Initiative gGmbH with project funds from the Federel Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

Foto ©Jenny Schäfer/www.jennyschaefer.de

[no margins] in - between the lines (unmastered)

In Memoriam to Identity (unmastered)

[Freedom/Fiction] was written and produced by L Twills in Los Angeles 
Released 2020
Mixed and mastered by Helge Hasselberg.
Vinyl mastering by Ameise
Cover photography by Suzanne Caroline de Carrasco

08 Automatic Subject

[Freedom/Fiction] REMIXES club compilation

01 L Twills - VOX (Zoë Mc Pherson Remix)
02 L Twills - Apparatus (Pacoima Techno Remix)
03 L Twills - Freedom/Fiction (Xiu Xiu Remix)
04 L Twills - Automatic Subject (John Tejada Remix)
05 L Twills - M.A.S.T.E.R.S. (Tobias Rochman Remix)
06 L Twills - L.A. [Automatic Subject pt2] (Nomi Elektra Remix)

Cover: "Autoportrait" by Frieda Toranzo Jäger

06 L Twills - L.A. [Automatic Subject pt.2] (Nomi Elektra Remix)

05  L Twills - M.A.S.T.E.R.S. (Tobias Rochman Remix)

04 L Twills - Automatic Subject (John Tejada Remix)

03 L Twills - Freedom/Fiction (Xiu Xiu Remix)

02 L Twills - Apparatus (Pacoima Techno Remix)

01 L Twills - VOX (Zoë Mc Pherson Remix)

Booking: inquiry@lilazoekrauss.com
[After her Destruction] 2LP is out!

27.07.2024 Finissage at Kunsthaus with a workshop by Luïza Luz, Isabelle Edi and performances by Elliot Reed, Ophelia Young & Lila-Zoé Krauß
20.07.2024 Habitat Festival, Hamburg
19.07.2024 Detect Classic Festival, near Berlin
25.05.2024 Performance night with Anto López Espinosa & Don Jegosah at Kampnagel Hamburg
24.05.2024 Opening [After her Destruction] solo show at Kunsthaus Hamburg
30.04.2024 Wahlpurgisnacht, Odeon Theater Wien
14.02.2024 Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
09.12.2023 Desertshore Festival, Volkstheater Vienna
13.10.2023 SISTERS+, Fluc Vienna
07.09.2023 Forum Stadtpark, Graz
01.09.2023 [After her Destruction] Pre-Release, Popkultur Festival Berlin

02.12.22 Viva Sounds Festival, Göteborg
30.09.22 Futur3 Festival, Kiel
22.09.22 Gans Anders Festival, Innsbruck
16.09.22 KVAKA Art Space Belgrade
09.09.22 Maydan #3, Dokumenta 15 Kassel
03.09.22 Import Export München
25.08.22 Popkultur Festival Berlin 
29.06.2022 Fusion Festival
26.05.2022 Fitz Roy Berlin
13.05.2022 Stubnitz Hamburg
04.05.2022 [Sic]nal 
12.02.2022 Kampnagel
27.01.2021 Tennis Bar, Berlin
14.01.2021 Cashmere Radio Exhibition, Berlin Wedding 

15.9. Premiere at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
15.8. Special Show with Don Jegosah at ZOLLO
10.8. Support at Molotow for Joachim Franz Büchner Band
30.7. & 31.7. Off the Radar Festival
23.-25.7. Galerie Oel-Früh
23.-25.7. Vibrational Network / Künstlerhaus Faktor
09.04.2021 RI0: [Freedom/Fiction], Lichthof Theater
04.03.2021 RI01: Detritus of a Memory, Papiripar Festival
27.02. & 2.3.2021 RI04: Inge, safe us from the dead!
shortfilm debut at Brecht Festival
28.12.2020 Chaos Computer Club, Liveset
06.11.2020 [Freedom/Fiction] REMIXES, Release
01.08.20 Vogelball
31.07.20 Off the Radar Festival
24.06.20 Fusion Festival
16.3.2020 SXSW
28.02.20 Tide Radio
20.02.20 [Freedom/Fiction] Debut LP Release Show at Ramona Records
20.02. 11h Byte FM
14.02.20 Mancini, Lüneburg

2019
28.12. 23h Südpol
12.12. Asa Studios
6.12.19 Montez Press Radio
24.11.19 Guest Performance with Chicks on Speed, HKW Berlin
25.10.19 Further Festival / Übel&Gefährlich
9.10.19 Shari Vari Release Support Show / Hafenklang
31.8.19 Platzfestival / GartenkunstNetz / Hamburg
23.10. 30 Jahre Wendenstraße
9-11.8.19 Artlake Festival
6.8.19 Paloma Bar / Berlin 
4.8.19 Seepferdchen / Garbicz Festival
12.7.19 Feel Festival 
5.7.19 Fabrique, Gängeviertel / Lüttville Solifest / Hamburg
23.5.19 Montez Press Radio / New York 
5.5.19 Rec Center / Los Angeles
11.4.19 Montez Press Radio / LA Book Fair
23.3.19 In the Last Resort / Navel / Los Angeles
21.3.19 California Institute of the Arts
2018
24.11.18 Cashmere Radio / Berlin / 16.00
18.10.18 Support für Carla Dal Forno / Häkken
6.10.18 Pre-Party Further Festival / Turmzimmer / Übel&Gefährlich
20.9.18 Lazy Duo Buho Sessions / Frappant
19.9.18 Neighbourhood Assistance / Hanseplatte / Reeperbahn Festival
25.8.18 Lalafestival
16.8.18 Support Andreas Dorau und Socalled / Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel
5.8.18 Seepferdchen / Garbicz Festival
27.7.18 Disparates Konglomerat / Gängeviertel
28.6.18 Fusion / Haupttresen
27.6.18 Fusion / Casino
14.6.18  Garden State / Kampnagel
25.5.18 Limonale / Vowerkstift
19.4.18 75 Jahre LSD Festival / Basel
8.2.18 Jahresausstellung / HfbK
2017
26.10.17 Golden Pudel Club
17.10.17 Hallo Festspiele / Kraftwerk Bille
1.9.17 Off the Radar / Schröderstift
25.8.17 8 Jahre Gängeviertel

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