OLICÍA

In the organizer's words:

"Out of the Blue" is a cycle of songs and corresponding artworks that emerge from a dialog. From conversation and exchange between the two musicians from Olicía and artists from other disciplines - painting, fashion, design, dance, literature, film and arts and crafts. The works are created using the ping-pong principle and gradually and playfully find their final form. The focus is on learning from each other, borrowing principles, working methods and materials. From an initial exchange of ideas and sensations and their initially vague and fuzzy formulation, the partners on both sides gradually translate the process into points and notes, forms and chords, textures, patterns, configurations and designs.

In the end, two distinct works of art stand side by side on an equal footing, complementing each other, commenting on each other or perhaps just pursuing similar ideas and moving in very different directions.

>>Olicía

Olicía is the band project of the two multi-instrumentalists Fama M'Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp. They currently live in Berlin and Leipzig. The music of Olicía moves in the field of tension between the human voice, acoustic instruments, free improvisation and the use of modern electronic possibilities. At some point, they gave it the genre name "electronic handmade loopjazz". Fragmented, electro soul, playful, multilingual global pop, fragile folk moments and an approach to improvisation borrowed from jazz within a fixed structure. They unite all these disparate elements in astonishingly concise, direct and emotional pop songs. Everything that can be heard on stage is created in the moment, nothing is pre-produced.

They were nominated for the German Jazz Award with their debut double album "Liquid Lines" (2021). In 2022, they each released a (solo) album: the indie a cappella album "in June" (book+CD) by Fama M'Boup and the album "Figures Afloat" (LP/CD) by Anna-Lucia Rupp's chamber pop band Nouk. They release their music on their own label o-cetera (Membran/TheOrchard). In addition, both were part of the live band for Sophie Hunger's last album "Halluzinationen" and developed and performed the music for the multimedia theater performance "reality warping" for Jasmine Ellis Projects in 2023. Fama M'Boup is part of Kat Frankie's B O D I E S collective. She has also just released "Ich und Du", a collaboration with Dota Kehr as part of her Mascha Kaléko settings.