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ANKATHIE KOI
"I'm coming to collect your love now! The Kois are back in town and on the road again! Ankathie Koi has been a fixture in the German-speaking music scene since 2014, a Viennese pop institution with punky provincial roots and an overdose of the eighties at heart. And this woman can work magic: with her voice, her unique selling point, which she loves to use for mischief, but which can also shake, rattle, and delight in its depth and intensity. The musician has successfully carried the glam looks and synth sounds typical of the decade into the new millennium and infects her audience with an overflowing joy in gaudy chaos. She spells POP in capital letters and is always ahead of the curve when it comes to trends: with "Kate, it's hunting season" in 2014, Koi already anticipated the current wave of the eighties. For the first time, Ankathie Koi is venturing out in a big way from her linguistic hideaway, swapping the English she has practiced for years for her mother tongue. Or more precisely: a singing language that rhymes "elegance" with "persistence," effortlessly combining the shiny with the rough, and at the same time has no fear of good schlager. PIKANT follows PROMINENT LIBIDO. Koi, the forty-year-old self-proclaimed sugarmama, serenades her innocent young lover in "Baby Boy," celebrates him with self-irony as a plaything ("I love how you tremble"), celebrates wild and sweetly self-destructive love in "Amour Fou" ("I'm in amour fou just as mad as you"), and literally lets the crocodiles dance in "Dance Your Way In." Don't believe it? But it's true! When Ankathie
