European premiere

The music of South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues explores themes such as grief, self-acceptance, lineage, ritual, and emotional vulnerability. At Rewire 2024, witness Niecy Blues’s special blend of ambient and R&B wherein their reverberating voice smothers the sparseness of their production in a close embrace. Niecy Blues says of their music: “I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves... whole days roll by, forgetting about the body.” In their new release Exit Simulation (2023, Kranky), the ghostly harmonies of downtempo gospel melt into reverberating looped vocal improvisations in an album that flourishes anew with each passing song. Niecy Blues’s sound world is one of gentle lullabies, heuristic pop hooks, and world-class R&B melody. Their music has a magnetic softness at its centre. It’s hypnotising, comforting, and haunting. Niecy Blues’s voice traverses slowly through beautiful melodies into hidden nooks and crannies of the mind and the spirit, unafraid of what they might find.

*This is a seated concert