Olicia & KID BE KID

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

Olicía's music always seems softly futuristic due to its very own form of creation via two synchronized loop stations. The two seem to virtually override the constraints (and lengths) of loop-based music and create very direct songs with efficiency and elegance, which do not require backing tracks and leave room for improvisation and chance.

While their jazz prize-nominated debut “Liquid Lines” explored the limits of individual songs, “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 genres of art through dialogue 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 crafts.

https://www.oliciamusic.com/

Kid Be Kid is an explosive firework. The music of the young Berliner is difficult to describe in words. When she sings, plays piano and synths and beatboxes simultaneously, it takes her breath away. “It's amazing how Kid Be Kid replaces an entire drum kit — using only voice and mouth. Her creative resources and creativity seem unlimited. She impresses not only with virtuosity, but also with her unconditional dedication to music,” describes “Deutschlandfunk Kultur.” Because the dainty musician manages to sound like a band even though she is completely alone on stage.

https://www.springstoff.com/pages/kid-be-kid