Olicía

In the organizer's words:

Olicía creates futuristic soundscapes with organic improvisation: two voices, two loop stations, boundless genres. Avant-garde soul meets fragile folk moments - always innovative, pulsating, unique.

Olicía is the band of the two singers and multi-instrumentalists Fama M'Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp. At the center of Olicía are their two voices. They divide into the lead vocals, layer, harmonize, form rhythms over vocal percussion or expand into large choirs. The instrumentation ranges from synths and looped vocal snippets to guitar and clarinet. For Olicía, genre boundaries have always been fluid-fragile folk moments, pulsating pop, avant-garde soul, spoken word and jazz.

Olicía's music always has a gently futuristic feel due to its unique form of creation using two synchronized loop stations. The constraints (and lengths) of loop-based music seem to be practically overridden by the pair, who create very direct songs with efficiency and elegance, without backing tracks and leaving room for improvisation and chance.

While their Jazz Award-nominated debut "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 genres through dialog and exchange. 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.