Annelies Monseré + Pollution Opera (Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi)

Annelies Monseré

Annelies Monseré has been playing music solo since 2000. Initially piano-based and mostly instrumental, later, discovering her voice, it became the centerpiece of her work. Her early songs centered around simplicity, the lyrics being sparse and introvert. She released on Stroom, Horn of Plenty, Morc, and more and worked with Jessica Bailiff, Michael Anderson, and more. Annelies is a member of the collaborative projects Hydromedusae, Luster, and Distels.

Pollution Opera (Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi)

As two voices pushing the standards of accepted feminine vocal spectrum in very different ways, Nadah El Shazly and Elvin Brandhi are colliding to investigate what a postmodern opera would sound like. In choosing to collaborate with a cacophony carbon orchestra, as an omnipresence feature, we embrace dissonance, and look into poetic ways of re-establishing intimacy. Pollution Opera was first conceived en route in Cairo, Kampala and Paris.