Anika releases Eat Liquid, a commissioned work composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium, Berlin, in collaboration with their visuals team, who provided a suitably out-of-this-world experience made up of fractals, maps to the stars and a birds-eye-view of Berlin. The composition is inspired by Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience, exploring the question: Can music be used to elevate consciousness into psychedelic experiences?
“I hope to offer a journey into another realm, a safe place, a-top a dreamy soundscape of whining synths, siren calls, long-tailed guitar, all over the grid, to refind the centre of ourselves, a staycation, to unpick the stresses of modern life – a complete experiment with no sinister motives. Spoken word includes cut-ups from Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience, First Bardo Instructions during Climb On-Board.”
Written in the context of cold, endless, relentless Berlin Winter, the rattling uncertainty of war edging ever closer, we all seek escape in moments like this, through drugs, alcohol, sex and film. Can music take us to a place of bliss, safety, just for one moment and without the nasty side effects?
Stargazing with Anika
Gazing at the stars
Which are not real stars
But a theatre imitating the sky
in a man-made dome-shaped space
I think of asterisks
Those small stars
That are placed at the end of a word
To indicate that this is not the end
Not the end of the word
Not the end of the world
Not the end of a man-made doomed space
Not the end of the sky
But rather a continuation
Of its endlessnessnessnessnessnessness
– Hanne Lippard
Edition Dur is a series of limited vinyl releases realised by Sven Hasenjäger and Daniel Meteo in cooperation with Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann in Berlin and is only available at Dussmann store and Dussmann online. The series combines popular and serious music, classic (instruments) and electronic, avantgarde, experimental and jazz.
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Eat Liquid Planetariumkonzert is out now via Edition Dur
Buy on vinyl here and download via Bandcamp here 
