FUGA FUTURA is a force of nature. Livia Rita weaves mystic eco-pop, creatural delight and future-oriented visuals to cast a spell for otherworldly connection.
RElease date: Friday 7th October
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Tracklist
The creature Metamorphosis
Each FUGA FUTURA song’s essence is physicalised in a creature. For each of these creatures, Livia Rita has designed and crafted an ArtFashion collection. All of them together form the CREATURE METAMORPHOSIS.
about the FUGA FUTURA debut Album
FUGA FUTURA; NEW MUSCLES; NEW FLESH; NEW SKINS; NEW THOUGHTS; NEW FUTURES; NEW GENDERS; NEW ENERGIES ; NEW COMMUNITIES; NEW LOVE
From human tenderness to cosmic deviance, Livia Rita sings an alternative future into being. The album revels in the anxieties, ambitions and desires for the future, claiming the future as a space for dystopian and utopian dreams at the edge of existence. Livia Rita invites you to recalibrate your dreams into something more ethereal, more superhuman, more weird than you’ve ever experienced before.
Each song in the album is represented by a different creature, representing the transformative journeying that occurs over a lifetime. FUGA FUTURA celebrates metamorphosis, understanding that coming out of a cocoon is both terrifying and inevitable for exposing the intimacies between organic and inorganic entities. Evolution towards a post-human future requires radical experimentation, and a pursuit of life beyond the norm. In this uncanny universe, Livia Rita offers game cards, scents, ArtFashion and spells: music has never looked so multifaceted.
“We recorded on the hottest days of continental European summer, we recorded in winter in the idyllic mountains, we recorded in London in the late nights after busy days…. we recorded as nomads, staying in other people’s flats who were on holiday, in the attic of a house where I grew up in, at residencies. I wrote the melodies wandering around different landscapes of Europe, by the ocean, in the mountains, early mornings in city parks. We wrote during moments of crisis, of mental health issues, but with a steadfast excitement for the future…”
This album marks a gateway between one world and the next. Embrace FUGA FUTURA’s glitchy, existential haze, wherein ethereal wave meets mystic eco-pop, meets dystopian Kuschelrock, meets utopian hardrock. Dream big; delight in the weird.
Bio Livia Rita
Livia Rita is an alpine witch and soft nature creature based everywhere between the alps and London. They sing, choreograph, design and create visuals and film with an inexhaustible devotion to a progressive way of thinking. Their mystic eco-pop melodies have expanded into the bountiful conceptual debut album, FUGA FUTURA, a place of healing through dark fantasy, where nature rebels and magic abounds in an attempt to unite otherworldly bodies. In Livia Rita’s practice, humans shed their humanness to become something creatural: everything she creates responds to the lively nature of interdependent beings.
Livia Rita’s vision for sound offers an intuitive, sensual odyssey towards something more alive, more hopeful, than our current state of things. Blending elements of electronica and maths rock with an avant-garde aesthetic, her music is at once an invitation to intimacy and a call for utopian disruption. This genre-defying sound runs riot between magical synths and dreamy vocals.
Their output includes performances, ArtFashion, dance and lively ephemera, such as the FUTURA SPELLBOOK and CREATURE METAMORPHOSIS game cards. Livia Rita’s work builds towards a queer mythology; fantasies are moulded and shared; identities shift and shimmer. Their multidisciplinary expression embodies an ambitious search for new beings capable of fearlessly reinventing themselves. Nature is central to Livia Rita’s craft: her relationship to it is one grounded in curiosity, wonder and speculative care. By engaging with both utopian and dystopian visions, Livia Rita nurtures the weird – the otherworldly – in all of us. In her practice, she pursues deeper climate awareness by placing emphasis on otherness, highlighting the strange beauty of the other-than-human.
Together with the Avantgardeners Collective, Livia Rita is manifesting her transdimensional dream of the future. Her aim is to create a new environment for all the beings mired in the inertia of quotidian life. In an interview with SPAM in 2021, Livia Rita observed: “I think dreaming and real life are two such separated entities. And I find that creating or being creative is very much a bridge between the two. Forgetting about time, getting absorbed, body and mind get carried away, I think that act feels utopian to me to a degree. And specifically, with the in-between world FUTURA, home of all creatures and spells, it’s the idea that it’s a layer put upon reality.” SPAM’s response? What better antidote for our collective inertia than Livia Rita’s strange, disjointed hallucination.
Join her in this dizzying, tremendous act of worldbuilding.
Press photos - Live Show photos - Youtube Channel - Instagram - Bandcamp - Spotify - liv@liviarita.com - +44 7549 245499 / +41 77 259 78 48
RElease weekend: Chairlift Performance
Join us as we take to the skies to celebrate the album release! At an old ski lift, an audience will float across sound and ArtFashion creatures in the rural alpine valley where Livia Rita grew up. Wolzenalp Krummenau, 24th & 25th September. 12-1pm CET. We will live stream from the air.
Images of an early attempt during Corona
FUGA FUTURA spellbook
The Spellbook contains all the lyrics of the FUGA FUTURA and is printed on newspaper paper.
You can download a version here: https://we.tl/t-ocI7GBeEg3
ArtFashion & Photos
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Photographs by Simon Habegger
Octoprowess creature / Muscle of freedom Artfashion collection
Images by Toma
Images by Yasmine Akim
Fotoseries: Creatures in London
Images by Hannah Burton