The Chinese Berlin-based artist otay:onii is a unique name on the international avant-garde scene. She has enriched festivals like CTM, Roadburn, and institutions like Harvard University with her boundary-pushing musical and performative work. This spring, she brings her latest album “True Faith Ain’t Blind” to ALICE, where classical music and metal fuse in intense compositions for piano and experimental vocals.

With an artistic practice that spans music, film composition, performance, and installations, otay:onii, aka Lane Shi, explores the borders between sound and emotion. Her performative and musical works have generated significant attention on the international avant-garde stage. Here, she navigates everything from humor to the harsh realities of third-world immigrants, offering rooted Eastern perspectives to the Western world in an attempt to bridge divides. Otay:onii’s performances are raw, provocative, and beautiful, as she unfolds her voice in unlikely experiments.

Otay:onii has captivated audiences worldwide with performances at festivals like CTM and Roadburn, as well as at distinguished venues like Harvard University and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum. At ALICE, she will present material from “True Faith Ain’t Blind” – an album where classical music and metal intertwine through intense compositions for piano and voice, inviting listeners to experience music without preconceptions. Look forward to an extraordinary evening with one of the most intriguing voices on the avant-garde scene today.

Said about Otay:onii
“With vocals that sound like a banshee version of Amy Winehouse” – Rolling Stone

“W.C. is crushingly eerie, leaving you at the mercy of Otay
‘s tone as she draws melody from the muck” – NPR

“She teases out a tension between light and dark that lurks throughout the record, just one of many axes along which Shi situates her sound and themes” – Pitchfork