What’s between life and death? On f newly released album, ‘Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay]’, Xenia Xamanek orbits the paranormal, letting myths, legends, and fictions from Central America interwave in abstract, sonic sketches. That sound shall haunt our concert hall, when the experimental, electronic musician performs the a reworked version of the album at ALICE.

Xenia Xamanek is a composer and electronic musician, saxophonist/flutist and vocalist based in Copenhagen and with roots across continents. With their distinctive approach and eternal curiosity, the multidisciplinary artist Xenia Xamanek has created a personal and comprehensive sonic universe in constant transformation. Xamanek’s musical productions, as well as their live performances and DJ sets, embrace unpredictable sounds and genre-fluid expressions in songs and collages with threads of reggaeton and perreo, art music, pop, and noise. The fleeting aesthetics and shifting emotions in Xenia Xamanek’s electronic soundscapes, create new connections and evoke new utopias.

Xenia Xamanek is known for captivating audiences with their performative and mesmerizing live shows and have been involved in numerous collaborations over the years, both in music, site-specific sound art, audiovisual performances, and as a co-founder of the music platform and label UUMPHFF music. Xamanek is one half of X & Yde, a duo with Danish artist Ydegirl. Together, they recently released the EP ‘Sound of a Bite’. As a solo output, Xenia Xamanek recently released the album ‘Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay]’. The album orbits the paranormal and oral histories, disrupting the rigidity of classic oratorio and opera, where myths, legends and fictions interweave through abstract sonic sketches. The album has been six years underway, and it was on ALICE’s stage that Xenia Xamanek performed the material that would become the album for the very first time. It’s therefore a true ‘full-circle-moment’ to have Xenia Xamanek back on our stage to present a reworked version of the album, once again letting its sound haunt our concert hall!