THE BAY AREA DEBUT OF ANIKA !!!!
THIS WED 10/19
@ THE INDEPENDENT, SF
ANIKA (LIVE DEBUT)
PB WOLF (VJ SET)
JEL
STARVING WEIRDOS
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!
Listen to Anika here:
http://www.myspace.com/anikainvada
Listen to PB wolf here:
http://stonesthrow.com/pbwolf
About Anika:
"Political Journalist" isn't a credential we usually have in musician's bios, but this is exactly what Anika was doing while living between Berlin and Bristol earlier this year when she met Geoff Barrow. The producer was looking for a new singer to work with his band Beak>, and it was immediately clear they shared the same musical vision, including a love of punk, dub and 60s girl groups. Just a week later Anika and Beak> (Barrow, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams) went into the studio to begin recording material. The resulting album was recorded in twelve days, live, with the four together in one room. Dub with no overdubs. The collaboration is political, trashy, dub, punk, funk ... a cohesive sound, and and experience in uneasy listening. In the tradition of short-lived but deeply influential 99 Records and the NYC's 80s No Wave nexus, the nine songs on Anika run the gamut from experimental rock ("Yang Yang", "Officer Officer") to covers of folk ("Masters of War") and pop songs ("Terry", "I Go to Sleep"), while showcasing reverb-drenched ancient drum machine rhythms.
ANIKA was recorded live in 12 days, with her three band mates, Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams, together in one room and no overdubs. In a recent interview featuring Geoff in XLR8R’s current issue themed ‘Building an Iconic Sound’… the producer shared, “Just having three musicians and a singer in a room is a pleasure. A band like Can would just gather, record and they would sound so balanced and at the same time capture all these dynamics. I’ve become fascinated with this. I love to hear a really amazingly written song that’s off kilter, and that doesn’t hide its wrongness.”
"Anika's voice is a warm howl, one that barely diverges from her speaking tone, melodic almost despite itself, a quality that lends fluidity to the spectrum of voices the album repurposes." -The FADER
