For the first time in a decade, ANOHNI presents a concert series with The Johnsons, accompanied by nine musicians, including Julia Kent (cello), Maxim Moston (violin), Doug Wieselman (multi-instrumentalist), Gael Rakotondrabe (piano), Leo Abrahams (guitarist) and Jimmy Hogarth (guitarist/producer). In response to a moment of upheaval, ANOHNI issues a challenge: "It's time to feel what's really happening."
Born in the UK and raised in Amsterdam and California, ANOHNI moved to New York in her late teens, forming her band The Johnsons in 1998 and establishing a unique path as an artist with a focus on animist and eco-feminist themes. ANOHNI's musical journey has spanned genres from electronic experimentation to avant-classical, dance and soul. She achieved success in 2005 with I Am a Bird Now, winning the UK Mercury Award. His subsequent releases include The Crying Light (2009), Swanlights (2010) and live albums such as Cut The World (2012) and TURNING (2014). In 2016, she released the electronically political album HOPELESSNESS, produced by Hudson Mohawke and Daniel Lopatin, highlighted as one of the top ten albums of the year by the NY Times. That same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Song) for the environmentalist elegy Manta Ray, featured in the film Racing Extinction (dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2015).
ANOHNI's sixth studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (2023), continues to examine social structures, spirituality and our relationships with the biosphere. The album was named album of the year by The New Yorker. Politiken awarded it five hearts and called it "a delicate flame lit by soul music of the past," while GAFFA characterized it as "an otherworldly experience."
The artist seeks courage, endurance and ceremony in the face of an unprecedented contemporary landscape, and emphasizes, "For me, there is no heavenly respite; Creation is a spectral and feminine continuum, and we remain an inalienable part of Nature."
