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REVIEW: The Fervor, Olivia Anna Livki @ Fontana’s CMJ preview – 10/19
As a warm up to their upcoming CMJ performance, Louisville’s The Fervor stopped through New York’s Fontana’s in China Town last night as part of a showcase with several other artists, including Olivia Anna Livki, Town Hall Steps, We Should Be Dead, Hot Panda, and Little Tybee.(...) Following The Fervor, I had the opportunity to catch Olivia Anna Livki whose set made for a strangely sexual combination of what she describes as voice n bass, with massive pedal-distortion work going on, creating really quite beautiful and sensual waves of sound that is sometimes confusing, but never distracting. Combine that with the heavy hitting bass she plucked as she danced around on stage and the crowd was mesmerized, by the music, by the atmosphere she created, by her looks (she was quite attractive), and perhaps a little by the weirdness of it all…but there is no doubt that she was very good at what she does.
Link:
http://backseatsandbar.com/2009/10/20/the-fervor-olivia-anna-livki-fontanas-cmj-preview-1019/ - http://backseatsandbar.com
Olivia Anna Livki kicked ass last night at Don Pedros in Brooklyn with her wailing bass lines and thrilling voice somewhere between Joan Armatrading and Bjork and will be performing again tonight at Uncle Mike’s in Manhattan.
She shared the bill with Hair Rocket(Up/Garage/Pop) celebrating the first group hair rocket launching and local greats El Rio Humano. - Jockeyrocker at http://jockeygoggles.wordpress.com
Discography
EP (7-track)
The Name of This Girl Is Olivia Anna Livki
to be released in May 2010
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Bio
"Come in, Pistol Babies! You oughtta stop being collateral damage".
She writes songs of yearning passion, hypnotic imagination and strange humour – anthems for a lost generation yz. Her self-created “genre” is Global Village-Voice..n..Bass (at least that’s what she calls it), a trademark-sound possibly never heard before, echoing cathartic Blues-and Gospel-ecstasy, Afrobeat, HipHop, Electroclash and Grime, but really leaving them all far behind. After all, Livki is a mental student of Aretha, Odetta, Patti Smith, Fela, Betty Davis, but mostly Byrne and Eno, translating them into a new generation and context. A groove-infected smart girl-Postpunk-revolution. It’s no wonder the thing audiences say most often about her is “she’s completely insane, but grooves as hell”.
It all started with a foreign girl in a smalltown in South Germany. A girl with a problem: no help or understanding for her goal of becoming a filmmaker (like Hitchcock), sleeping disorders, phobias. But the smart neurotic learned that if you got an idea you got to make it happen- yourself. At 10 she began making films, at 16, tormented by sleepless nights, she discovered that singing upon the dark sound of bass gave her relief.
She experimented with it, little by little adding some guidance from the people she had sucked in to her veins since early childhood: Aretha, Led Zeppelin, Ike and Tina, James Brown, Sonic Youth, Kate Bush, Velvet Underground. And the Blues, which for some reason just never let her go...She decided to create a new aesthetics for her own, lost generation (and those smart-maverick-girls her songs tell about):youth angst, sexual neurosis, media-illness, school, hologram-pets and anorexia. Still today, every aspect of her work remains strictly personal: videos, artwork, arrangements, production, videoscreens for shows.
In Berlin’s alternative-scene she already considered one of the best life-acts in town, beloved by audiences. However, last year she completed her first NY-minitour and this year she’s coming back in March. Her new show is called THE NAME OF THIS GIRL IS OLIVIA ANNA LIVKI. It foreshadows her first EP of the same title (May 2010).
Some venues:
NYC:
Fontana's
Don Pedro
Lit Lounge
Ella Lounge
Goodbye Blue Monday
The Local 269
Berlin:
Antje Öklesund
Junction Bar
Cafe Zapata
Schokoladen
Intersoup
Videos at myspace or
youtube-channel:
www.youtube.com/mrnulki
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