Brazey / Olicía
1/14/2026
at 8:30 PM
/ Salzburg
With her band project Brazey, she combines singer/songwriter elements with a jazzy touch and adds a hint of alternative pop to the whole mix. Delicate, melancholic yet playful guitar melodies take the listener on a journey through a warm and inviting soundscape.
Olicía is the band project of the two singers and multi-instrumentalists Fama M’Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp, navigating the tension between human voice, acoustic instruments, free improvisation, and the use of electronic possibilities. At some point, they dubbed it ‘electronic handmade loopjazz’ – everything you hear on stage is created in the moment, nothing is pre-produced.
Brazey
FIVE HEARTS greets us with a multitude of voices – let us imagine each of the five hearts as belonging to a voice. Each one a search engine, sent off on inquiries with Brazey’s questions, instead finds a thousand memes (about itself). Thus, they are never quite locatable, sending from the road, in the midst of their missions. We become witnesses to their endeavors: golden threads through a plethora of emotions and information, which leaves nothing intact in their tangle. We hold on to them, they withstand it. Howling, and sometimes finding unity, they harmonize. Through their correspondence, the musical spaces open up.
SONGS FOR SLEEP – Brazey’s last EP – was a somnambulistic odyssey through the microcosm of a very small room, where restlessness laid like a soft blanket over everything. FIVE HEARTS once again opens up to the airy concert halls and jazz stages from Brazey’s musical past. Their instruments are also woven into the dense sound carpet that still feels light, and now and then is compressed by electronic interventions, briefly throwing itself into pop at its highest points and then completely eluding definition again. One thing all songs have in common: an intoxicating intimacy that characterizes Brazey’s unique style with its startling clarity.
Olicía
Olicía is the band of the two singers and multi-instrumentalists Fama M’Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp. Driven by female voices, they share lead vocals and other musical elements, layering, beatboxing, harmonizing, and letting sounds grow that partially occur in the now, partially only in the future. The instrumentation ranges from synths and looped vocal snippets to guitar and clarinet.
Genre boundaries have always been fluid for Olicía – fragile folk moments, pulsating pop, avant-garde soul, spoken word, jazz ... Olicía’s music seems to maintain a subtly futuristic quality through its own unique form of inception over two synchronized loop stations. The constraints (and lengths) of loop-based music seem to practically be rendered ineffective by the two, creating direct songs with efficiency and elegance that do not rely on backing tracks and leave room for improvisation and chance.
In 2021, Olicía released their debut album LIQUID LINES - a double album that presented each song in two very different versions. Since then, solo albums (in June) and band projects (NOUK, cocotá) have been released under their own label o-cetera.
They were part of the live lineup of Sophie Hunger, released music with Dota Kehr and Kat Frankie, and contributed a song to the soundtrack of Robert Gwisdek’s directorial debut (Käptn Peng). Above all, however, the two spent more than two years working on the songs and works that are now collected in OUT OF THE BLUE. While LIQUID LINES explored the boundaries of the individual song, OUT OF THE BLUE is now an attempt to completely re-examine their art form, connecting their music through dialogue and exchange with other art genres.
For each song on this album, there exists an artwork of the same title, functioning as a counterpart and created in a close exchange process. A result of ongoing pings and pongs until both sides felt they had arrived at a result. “Out of the Blue” is therefore not what is often referred to as a ‘coherent album.’
Rather, it is the opposite. Each song opens its own world and simultaneously gazes into the parallel universe of another artist from fields such as film, design, painting, literature, and crafts. Each pair of works has its own space on the band's own label website, o-cetera.com.
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