MARY OCHER
Thursday 5 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/388344
MARY OCHER was born Mariya Ocheretianskaya in Moscow in 1986, she moved
to Israel with her family at age four, then to Berlin at 20. In 2011
she caught the attention of the inimitable King Khan at a karaoke bar
(he also lives in Berlin), and she recorded what's still her most recent
full-length of new material, 2013's Eden, at his Moon Studios. He's not
her only famous fan either: Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs contributed a
quote to Ocher's press kit. "Mary Ocher gives me the chills," she says.
"She frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider
artist, immaculately self-possessed”. Her DIY roots and anything-goes
aesthetic notwithstanding, Ocher is obviously too well-connected to
qualify as an outsider. Ocher’s songs are a diverse bunch ranging from
ghostly noise, sad but jaunty piano ballads, frisky strumming, echoing
ersatz funk to chintzy drum machine workouts with vacuum-cleaner synth.
Ocher herself seems to have as many faces as a vaudeville performer: her
multifarious singing leaps without warning from unhinged keening to
warped drawling or from wobbly muttering to blustery declaiming.
Forthcoming album, ‘The West Against The People’ has been produced with
Faust’s Hans Joachim Irmler and also features tracks with Ocher’s
drummers – duo Your Government – as well as collaborations with
avant-garde legends Die Tödliche Doris, Felix Kubin and Julia Kent of
Rasputina/Antony and The Johnsons. It’s out March 10 on krautrock label
Klangbad.
http://www.maryocher.com/
http://www.maryocher.com/
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