Impulstanz Festival Lounge Live'n'Local Event

Live’n’Local Lan Rex (live) & Mala Herba (live) & Anna Leiser
Admission fee: €10,-
Free admission with ImPulsTanz performance tickets of the same day or ImPulsTanz workshop & research participants pass​​​​​​​
All visitors to the ImPulsTanz Festival Lounge in the Kursalon Wien must be tested/vaccinated or have recovered and be able to prove this with appropriate documents/certificates at the entrance.

Lan Rex presents the debut EP “Absatz 1”, named after Lena Lens Kühleitner’s former solo project. Live concert in duo with Lisa Grabner. “Absatz 1” moves with delicate punch. Artful vocal arrangements are supported by graceful synth sequences and delightfully induce a metallic healing. “Lan Rex faces the forces, moves through large spaces and breathes steady waves of sound that balance the push and pull of our present.”(Tender Matter).

Mala Herba is the solo project of sound artist and queer music activist Zosia Hołubowsk. Mala Herba’s performances are based on traditional music, magic and the demonology of Eastern Europe and are sonic rituals. The music draws from darkwave and minimal synth-wave, sometimes the melody cracks, the voice becomes a magical spell and the song turns into a soundscape. Polyrhythmic pulsations are stacked on top layers of harsh noise and processed archive samples, then the arpeggiated bass kicks in again and the music oscillates between haunting Italo-disco and EBM. After being featured on compilations by labels such as DKA, Exiles and Total Solidarity by Oramics, Mala Herba released the debut LP “Demonologia” on [aufnahme+wiedergabe] in January 2021, followed by a digital EP “Omnia Vanitas” with two remixes and two covers on the same label.

Anna Leiser has been an integral part of the viennese dj circuit for more than a decade. Being deeply involved in electronic music with promoting parties with her collectives Resolut, later Bebop Rodeo, O.K, and Utopia 3000, as well as her long-term experience working for the sound:frame festival for audiovisual art and, of course, being a Dj and collecting records, she has developed her very own style over the years, ranging from different aspects of House, Techno and Electro to Post Punk and Wave, widely influenced by the warm and analog sounds of Detroit.