Black Boboi trifft Rosa Anschütz & Eddna (Tokyo-Berlin Residency)

This year, Berlin and Tokyo are celebrating 30 years of being sister cities. To mark the anniversary, Irish-Japanese artist ermhoi is coming to Berlin for a month where her trio, Black Boboi, will collaborate with Berlin-based artists Rosa Anschütz and Eddna at Pop-Kultur. This musical encounter will explore new soundscapes, as it is a profound artistic fusion of two cultures that doesn’t happen often.

Black Boboi – consisting of ermhoi, Utena Kobayashi, and Julia Shortreed, who also work independently of one another – enchants us with their unique sound, a multi-layered fusion of melancholic electronics, steel drums, electric guitar, and various voices. The band will take us on a journey to the bottom of the sea – a dark place, enriched by an unexpectedly bright sonic colour and cultivated into a safe, almost calming underwater oasis.

Singer-songwriter Rosa Anschütz created her own unmistakable and emotional combination of electronic sounds and traditional musical instruments. She delivers poetic lyrics in a style that oscillates between singing and spoken word, transporting her listeners into an introspective world. Made possible by the Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Rosa Anschütz will perform in Japan in July, presenting her new album »Interior« – a meditative sonic and lyrical journey through various genres, combining the melancholy of neo-folk, the elegance and solemnity of modern classical music, and the grace and baroque of sacred music.

Performance and multimedia artist Eddna returns to Pop-Kultur from a musical sojourn in Japan. With her debut album »Cut in Half«, she tells a story that’s her own, but also that of many other female personalities, created somewhere between a mythical atmosphere and a dreamlike state, occasionally ridding herself of the false bottom for a depiction of our contemporary social structures.

Eddna’s protagonists wander through emotional landscapes, confronted with the forces of nature that have shaped them. To this end, she congenially combines constructed and deconstructed sounds, playing with the warmth of the organ, fanciful flutes, bloodcurdling bass, and, last but not least, the yearning quality of her vocal melodies, which allow each story to resonate in the rhythm of words and syllables.

Black Boboi, Rosa Anschütz, and Eddna invite the audience to experience the fruits of this artistic collaboration made possible by the Tokyo-Berlin Residency 2024.

Curation: Karl Imdahl

The exchange project »Tokyo-Berlin« in the context of the 30th anniversary of the city partnership is sponsored by the Senate Chancellery – Governing Mayor of Berlin and the Goethe-Institut Tokyo.