Olicía - Out of the Blue

In the organizer's words:

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, overlap, harmonize, form rhythms over vocal percussion or expand into large choirs. The instrumentation ranges from synths and looped vocal snippets to guitar and clarinet. Genre boundaries have always been fluid for Olicía - fragile folk moments, pulsating pop, avant-garde soul, spoken word, jazz...

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

In 2021, Olicía released their debut album " Liquid Lines " - a double album that juxtaposed each song on it in two completely different versions. While "Liquid Lines" explored the boundaries of the individual song, "Out of the Blue" is now an attempt to look at their own art form in a completely new way, to connect their own music with other art genres through dialog and exchange. For every song on this album there is a work of art with the same title that functions as a counterpart and was created in a close exchange process. A result of continuous pings and pongs until both sides felt they had found a result. "Out of the Blue" is therefore not what is often referred to as a "one-piece album". It is rather the opposite. 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.

On this evening, Olicía will play an exclusive album release concert for "Out of the Blue" at the robotron-Kantine in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Dresden - Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst amidst an exhibition of all the artistic works that were created in the process.

The exhibition includes works by filmmaker Lisa Hoffmann, wood craftswoman Dshamila Annina, jewelry designer Malene Glintborg, painter Claudia Kleiner, graphic designer Gunther Kleinert, fashion designer Katharina Haydeyan, writer Sudabeh Mohafez and photographer Micha Steinwachs.

Note: Please remember to wear warm shoes and sufficient warm clothing - due to the season, the temperatures in the canteen can still feel fresh even in spring (without heating)!