Together with her new alias and its self-titled debut EP Serpentskin as a result of be launched on Fleisch Information on March thirtieth, Zanias seeks to specific the aspect of herself that feels simply as at house within the DJ sales space as on stage with a microphone. Fusing her love of wave and hyperpop with the constructions and textures of trance, she deftly carves a brand new area of interest in dance music along 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 along with her signature ethereal vocals and otherworldly textures to invoke a novel aural transcendence for the membership atmosphere. 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 Gentle at Heaven’s Gate to the melancholic pining of Apparently Nothing.
Zanias has been haunting underground golf equipment all over the world along with her immediately recognisable voice and uniquely ethereal digital productions since 2011, with the spawning of her first mission Linea Aspera in London. She has since relocated to Berlin and launched underneath a mess of aliases and collaborations, together with the band Keluar with Sid Lamar of Schwefelgelb, and vocals for Dax J, Historical Strategies, I Hate Fashions, Fractions and Infravision (Kendal and Pablo Bozzi). She additionally cofounded and runs the unbiased label Fleisch Information, which was a serious driving pressure within the resurgence of digital physique music within the Berlin techno sphere with releases from artists similar 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 succeed in far past the darkwave and EBM corners from which she sprung.
Beneath her solo moniker, Zanias has launched an EP and 4 full-length LPs, all to underground crucial acclaim. Her most up-to-date album, 2024’s Ecdysis, was praised as ”wealthy in ambiance and vastly evocative” when Louder Than Warfare proclaimed it ‘Album of the Week’ upon its launch on Fleisch and Metropolis Information.
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