Mary Ocher (Germany) Returning to Aotearoa New Zealand in April

An innovative, political and mercurial force in electronic avant-pop (and beyond), Berlin-based multi-talent Mary Ocher will finally be back in Aotearoa NZ this coming April, much to the relief of folks who foolishly missed her much raved-about 2019 visit (eg. myself). The prolific singer / producer / poet / synthesist has unfurled two albums and a remixes / B-side collection during the past two years alone. Palazzo Stabile Sessions: Remixes and B-sides (extended version) draws on pre-pandemic works recorded in northern Italy, 2023's Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time is "a musical tour-de-force examining the collective dread of the impending future," and 2024's Your Guide to Revolution launched with Ocher's accompanying text A Guide to Radical Living — "A no nonsense guide to living comfortably with just enough: Why wealth needs poverty and how not to play along". Revisit the artist's 2019 conversation with Strange Stains for UTR HERE and don't miss Ocher's monumental return this autumn...

Mary Ocher (Germany)

Friday 11th April - Whammy Bar, Tāmaki Makaurau
Saturday 12th April - Goblin (DJ Set), Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland (door charge only)
Sunday 13th April - Space Academy, Ōtautahi

Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Watch Mary Ocher's video for 'Sympathize' featuring Your Government, from 2024's Your Guide to Revolution...

Boogie along with 'Swedish Samoa' featuring Your Government, also from Your Guide to Revolution...

Experience spellbinding live footage of Mary Ocher playing 'Cosmic Rock' from 2023's Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time, as part of the Orange 'Ear Berlin concert series...

Press release:

Following shows all over Europe and North America, Berlin-based experimental pop artist Mary Ocher returns to Aotearoa for the first time since 2019, armed with two vastly celebrated political records released only months apart, and ready to broaden our psychic horizons with two very special shows across Tāmaki Makaurau and Ōtautahi this April.

Ocher's music is a bold confrontation of power and alienation. For those who crave music that defies convention, Mary Ocher is unmissable.

Mary has been pushing the boundaries between pop and avant-garde for almost two decades, with playful and colorful form, and clever content that winks at everyone who recognises its cultural and historical references. Her new album joins a series of apocalyptic and politically charged concept albums.

The critically acclaimed new album Your Guide To Revolution is a joyful ode to hope, released just six months after its predecessor, the edgy and experimental Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time. It was picked by The Quietus as Album of The Week and it joins Bandcamp's favourite records of the year.

The new recordings feature collaborations with post-rock giants Mogwai, composer Roberto Cacciapaglia, pieces by fusion harpist Dorothy Ashby and 12th century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, a homage to electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and much more. Covering a vast musical landscape from leftfield pop and field recordings, to cosmic synth compositions, folk, post-punk and deconstructed techno.

Mary has toured across 40 countries to date, recorded and produced with Canadian psych guru King Khan and Hans Joachim Irmler of krautrock pioneers Faust, and feature collaborations with avant-garde legends Felix Kubin, Die Tödliche Doris and Julia Kent, among others.