VYLLA
VYLLA is an electronic music trio formed between Hanover and Basel, made up of Sophia Göken, Michel Lühring, and Benedikt Bienert.
Their sound moves between neo-soul, hip-hop, electronic music, art pop and jazz, creating a hypnotic and immersive live experience.
Spheric synthesizers collide with Drum’n’Bass grooves, powerful basslines
and experimental effects, while political, honest lyrics meet vulnerable and
mystical vocals. VYLLA constantly breaks genre boundaries, using effects,
unconventional arrangements and the imagination of an entire orchestra to
create their own urban and extravagant sound world — somewhere between
a dark disco and an abstract dream.
After several tours across the US, UK and Europe, VYLLA released their debut album "UGLY & FAKE". On their current The Future Tour, the trio brings the album to stages across Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, joined by tenor saxophonist Volkan Tan, adding another dynamic layer to the live sound.
UPCOMING GIGS:
14/11 - Leipzig - Noch Besser Leben w/ Atomic Fruit
19/11 - München - Import/Export w/ Atomic Fruit
20/11 - Praha - Hyb4 Hudba w/ Atomic Fruit
"UGLY & FAKE": a political and musical statement
"UGLY & FAKE" is VYLLA’s debut album. The album opens up a new sonic world that combines detuned synthesizers, octavers, rap, electronic textures and acoustic instrumentation.
The album moves through different emotional and musical phases, opening with "Fuck the Society", a visceral critique of an ugly and artificial society consumed by individualism and increasingly disconnected from one another. Drawing on feminist witchcraft, a rejection of bourgeois structures and a critical view of contemporary politics, VYLLA confronts the contradictions of a world in which fishes in the news can sometimes receive more compassion than people fleeing war and persecution.
Yet "UGLY & FAKE" is far from a purely negative statement. At its core, the album is about empowerment, solidarity and connection. It is music that turns frustration into connection, isolation into solidarity, and the feeling of being stuck into the possibility of moving forward together. This idea is reflected in the album’s final track, "Conversations".
Musically, VYLLA moves freely between different emotional states, eras and genres. The album shifts from alternative and electronic sounds to intimate acoustic passages, before erupting into punk inflected and highly energetic moments. The diverse musical experiences the trio has gathered over the past four years become tangible throughout the record, resulting in a sound that refuses to settle into a single genre.
"UGLY & FAKE" is both a political and musical statement - a confrontation with the world as it is, but also an invitation to imagine something different. It is a record about anger, vulnerability, resistance and the possibility of connection, creating a new sonic universe that listeners are invited to enter, question and inhabit.
