VANESSA AMARA & SOLI CITY

Vanessa Amara is a Danish duo consisting of Birk Gjerlufsen and Sebastián Santillana. Their sonic world is a realm where boundaries dissolve, a place where playful absurdity meets the elegance of contemporary classical music. Through theirdistinct blend of analog instruments—ranging from the haunting resonance of the pipe organ to the intricate warmth of strings—they forge an intricate tapestry of sound, often interwoven with experimental electronics. Released through the Copenhagen-based Posh Isolation label, their work resists easy categorization,inviting listeners into a universe both elusive and captivating, a space where the past and future converse in an ever-evolving dialogue.Their latest album ”Café LIFE”(2025) is a culmination of the Danish duo’s exploration of chamber pop sensibility and modern textural liquidation. Always moving, parsley farcical, and immensely unique, Vanessa Amara delivers an incomparable divagation into contemporary music productions.At some point last year my phone stopped charging. Looking it up, I figured it could be an accumulation of lint gathered in the USB-port blocking the connection. I removed the lint and the phone could charge again. This felt like a clear metaphor for, as well as a reminder of, the importance of reproductive work in life and in love. I kept the note “The Lint of Our Love” as a promising phrase to be sung. A while later, we were working on a chord progression, reorganised from a composition for pipe organ by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. I was looking for vocals to accompany the track, when I found this faint rhythm bleeding through an almost studio acapella of an Akon song. When Sebastián heard it, he started dancing, like making these floor sweeping motions along with the filtered remains of the beat and it very elegantly drew forth lines between the lint of our love and closing down the café for the day.Soli City:"Soli City is operating at the intersection of classical music traditions, electronic structures, and a media-critical gaze on contemporary life. Rooted in a post-digital sensibility, Soli City unfolds through composition, performance, and installation - where sound, light, and space merge into immersive situations that examine connection, consumption, and transformation.Soli City’s music orbits synthetic voices, polished strings, and radical collage techniques, shaping a gleaming auditory surface in which joy and sorrow, acceleration and dissolution, can coexist. With a distinct emotional clarity beneath its high-definition textures, the work investigates the contrasts that define our relationship to media culture and the world around us - inviting listeners into an experience that is both intimate and sharply contemporary"

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