Erika - Emergency Shutdown

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Anevite Void [IT 50]:

1. Emergency Shutdown
2. Opal Haze
3. Obsidian Sunset
4. Star Line Down
5. Anion
6. Desert Red
7. Crystal Circuits
8. Tomorrow's Fires
9. Dirt Breather
10. Wandering Mountain

For Erika’s second album “Anevite Void”, she explores her live process as it permeates everything she does, including documenting the process of life in the elaborate sci fi mythology she created.

Erika began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating with people like Jay Ahern and Noncompliant, and performing as a member of Circle of Live. Her depth of thought and clarity of vision has led to her mentoring people on live performance through the In Bloom platform, where she has made a large impact on many up and coming musicians.

“Anevite Void”, Erika’s new album, finds her organically writing songs for her live shows, allowing them to take shape through performance, and later recording them in the studio, making this the first album she has entirely written and produced on her own. Mixed by long time collaborator BMG, she finds this record as the launching point for a new process for her.

Conceptually, this album was inspired by “the irregular life cycles created by three suns circling over a planetary organism that presents two major biomes: rocky crystalline desert, and deep layered forest, each of which exists above and/or below ground, depending on what phase the suns are in.” From this realm the album took shape. She also chronicled this concept in drawings but found this painting by Detroit puckish punk legend Nai Sammon perfectly visually explained the concept, and chose it for the cover. She describes “each track is about an organic process that occurs: acts of survival of the biomes, or what happens between them and the multitude of other beings that they host.”

Erika is currently splitting her time between being based in Berlin and Detroit, is part of the triumvirate that runs Interdimensional Transmissions (BMG, Erika and Amber) that are releasing this record and produce legendary events such as No Way Back, Samhain and Return to the Source. She performs live and DJs and collaborates and oozes sonic truth in its many forms. Visit the “Anevite Void” in early 2023.

Released on February 17, 2023

Written and produced in Detroit by Erika
Mixed by BMG
Painting by NAI SAMMON
Sleeve Designed by Brendan M Gillen
Mastered by Neel at Enisslab Studio in Rome
Vinyl Mastered by Carl at Trutone
Vinyl Pressed at Archer Records in Detroit
Distributed by Clone

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Thank you to everyone who made this record possible.

first, my #1: GenOqs Octopus "The Shell"

and of course, my closest friends and family:
Doepfer Dark Energy
Elektron Analog RYTM
Empress Phaser
Eventide Space
Korg Mono/Poly
Make Noise 0-coast
Moog MF Delay
Moog Minitaur
Moog Mother-32
Moog MuRF
Moog Voyager
Roland Alpha Juno
Roland CMU-810
Roland SH-101
Roland TR-606
Roland TR-808
Roland TR-909
Strymon blueSky
Waldorf Blofeld
Waldorf Pulse2

plus an honorable mention to my support crew:
Ableton Live
emagic Unitor 8
Kenton Pro-2000
Kenton Thru-25
Soundcraft Ghost 24LE
UA Apollo 16

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IT 50 © 2023 Interdimensional Transmissions
Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

℗ 2023 Interdimensional Transmissions

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