Homage à Laurie Anderson by Mira Lu Kovacs
“From the beginning I’ve felt attracted by the way Laurie Anderson takes her androgyny for granted and the sober, natural way she embraces it, on and off the stage. In my search for things we share or perhaps things that set us apart, what became apparent was our love of reduction, of a certain simplicity. Apart,from that I realized that Anderson’s music is unrelentingly hypnotizing and comforting at the same time, like someone explaining that life doesn’t last forever, and that that’s a good thing.”
Mira Lu Kovacs
Mira Lu Kovacs is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and lyricist. Best known for her band Schmieds Puls (winner of the FM4 Award 2016), which released two full-length albums and toured in Europe and North America, the singer also dedicates her time to various other projects. The recent collaboration with the critically acclaimed jazz/electro-improv band Kompost 3 is just one of them. Over the past years she has worked with Richard Eigner (aka Ritornell), Bernhard Eder, Lukas Lauermann, Cid Rim, Clemens Wenger, to name a few. Robert Rotifer (FM4) about Mira Lu Kovacs: “This woman knows how to use both her wide-ranging, changeable voice and her stunning classical guitar technique to spectacular effect.”