ionnalee (iamamiwhoami) Presents KONSERT
with Guest Performers Zola Jesus, TR/ST,
Imogen Heap, Vander Von Odd
Listen to new single "MACHINEE" HERE
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"Lee reveals the best sides of her music with a dreamy flourish." - Pitchfork
"One of the most exciting and visually innovative artists in music"- V Magazine
"ionnalee's newest project is the otherworldly hype album we need" - Nylon
"Lee is making Kate Bush-influenced pop songs...there are moments of beauty in every single one" - The Fader
"Swedish pop auteur Jonna Lee doesn't just craft an odd and beautiful audiovisual world, but as the iamamiwhoami collective's face, voice and driving force, has you venturing around a netherworld of the subverted familiar" - Dazed & Confused
"Expect a mysterious explosion of sound that carries the legacy of simmering euro-disco simmering in the background, obscured by decaying organic foliage sporting the first signs of spring flowers" - Flaunt Magazine
"Lee's voice is delicate and otherworldly, weaving its way through warm synth blasts and creeping percussion" - The Guardian
"ionnalee is a natural evolution, a conduit for her singular vision, imbued with experiences past, yet marking the dawn of a fresh era" - AnOther Magazine
"...shimmering electronic, '80s-leaning production and sunny harmonies" - Paper Magazine
"Breathtakingly atmospheric, widescreen synth-pop" - Idolator
"She is a true testament and inspiration for what an independent artist can accomplish" - Blurred Culture
Swedish independent multimedia artist, songwriter, producer and director
ionnalee (Jonna Lee of iamamiwhoami) presents her innovative live digital installation KONSERT. Watch the captivating live performance HERE. The innovative concert featured musical guests including Zola Jesus, TR/ST, Imogen Heap and avant-garde drag performer Vander Von Odd dialing in for distant duets as well as performances from ionnalee's closest collaborators Claes Björklund, Tungorna and more. Fans will also recognize some familiar characters from ionnalee's past visuals.
KONSERT also marked the debut of ionnalee's new single "MACHINEE," a sonic journey through soulful atmospheric bliss evolving into an electro industrial burner. Listen to "MACHINEE" HERE.
"As I couldn't perform before my audience and wasn't able to experience the shows with my musician friends, I tried to recreate the experience digitally and it became something exciting," ionnalee shared.
"KONSERT is my third digital live project and making and I didn't want the process to end. The distance between me, audience and my guests is evident, but it felt very intimate and present. Hopefully that is what the audience feels too. We created KONSERT on a small hard working team and we were relying on the weather to carry us through. We almost made it until we had to abort by a rain storm."
Following in the footsteps of her previous digital concert installations IN CONCERT (2010) and CONCERT IN BLUE (2015), KONSERT celebrates ionnalee's decade-spanning body of audiovisual work and stellar electronic music. What began as an anonymous YouTube channel in 2010 under the name iamamiwhoami shortly evolved into a powerful series of full length audiovisual albums, installations, films and a media frenzy around her identity. 10 years later, ionnalee has become a rare musical and cultural phenomenon - an independent artist selling out tour dates worldwide with the support of a devoted and fiercely protective global fanbase. Her label To whom it may concern. launched in 2010, forming a creative hub for herself and her collaborators. Watch the complete 50-chapter ionnalee/iamamiwhoami videography 2010-2020 HERE.
ionnalee's recent compilation album KRONOLOGI, launched spontaneously as a reaction to the cancellation of her spring 2020 headline world tour, offering a new demo, live take, remix or previously unreleased song each week. Each addition to the project was produced, mixed and mastered by ionnalee while in quarantine and her original watercolor paintings became single covers, offering fans some isolation comfort for 12 weeks.
KRONOLOGI followed ionnalee's sophomore solo album, REMEMBER THE FUTURE, which received praise from Pitchfork, Billboard, Brooklyn Vegan, V Magazine, Nylon and more and included contributions from Röyksopp, Zola Jesus and Jennie Abrahamson. ionnalee's debut solo album and feature film, EVERYONE AFRAID TO BE FORGOTTEN, led to a world tour funded through Kickstarter in just 5 days that sold out dates across Europe, US, and Latin America.
To date, ionnalee's audiovisual projects have earned over 85 million views on YouTube and 65 million streams on Spotify. Beyond her solo work, ionnalee has been masthead of Röyksopp's live shows for the past years including performing as part of their acclaimed show at Coachella 2017.
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