Together with her new alias and its self-titled debut EP Serpentskin as a consequence of be launched on Fleisch Information on March thirtieth, Zanias seeks to specific the aspect of herself that feels simply as at dwelling within the DJ sales space as on stage with a microphone. Fusing her love of wave and hyperpop with the buildings and textures of trance, she deftly carves a brand new area of interest in dance music together with her signature vocals and a style for euphoric and evocative melodies. PRE-order HERE.
Serpentskin is the dancefloor-oriented alias of Alison Lewis aka Zanias, fusing the sounds of trance and darkwave together with her signature ethereal vocals and otherworldly textures to invoke a novel aural transcendence for the membership surroundings. In her debut self-titled EP, Serpentskin presents 5 tracks that discover this new realm with various levels of euphoria and longing, from the rapturous 90s-inspired Basking within the Mild at Heaven’s Gate to the melancholic pining of Apparently Nothing.
Zanias has been haunting underground golf equipment world wide together with her immediately recognisable voice and uniquely ethereal digital productions since 2011, with the spawning of her first challenge Linea Aspera in London. She has since relocated to Berlin and launched beneath a mess of aliases and collaborations, together with the band Keluar with Sid Lamar of Schwefelgelb, and vocals for Dax J, Historic Strategies, I Hate Fashions, Fractions and Infravision (Kendal and Pablo Bozzi). She additionally cofounded and runs the impartial label Fleisch Information, which was a serious driving power within the resurgence of digital physique music within the Berlin techno sphere with releases from artists akin to Schwefelgelb, Forces, Kontravoid and Kris Baha.
Her reside appearances at Berghain, Khidi, Wave Gotik Treffen and Merciless World Pageant alongside Duran Duran and Blondie, in addition to visitor appearances on stage singing with the Jesus and Mary Chain, have allowed her voice to achieve far past the darkwave and EBM corners from which she sprung.
Below her solo moniker, Zanias has launched an EP and 4 full-length LPs, all to underground essential acclaim. Her most up-to-date album, 2024’s Ecdysis, was praised as ”wealthy in ambiance and massively evocative” when Louder Than Conflict proclaimed it ‘Album of the Week’ upon its launch on Fleisch and Metropolis Information.
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