Astrid-

About

" Traversing the pop multiverse "

There’s no single thing you can use to place Astrid- in a neat pigeonhole, apart from to say that she seems to have a wholly consuming need for artistic expression. Her name, her music, her work, her collaborators, her performances: everything around her seems to be constantly in flux, shapeshifting in the futile hope of catching up to her boundless creativity.

It wasn’t so long ago that musician and director Astrid Ana Kljun was trying to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest with her former ensemble Astrid in Avantgarden. Not that long ago, no, but in some ways, it seems ancient history now due to the constant artistic churn. She switched her collaborators, linking up with producer and guitarist Tomaž Zupančič of Slovenian indie rock up-and-comers MRFY, to create enchanting, trip-hoppy tracks with a firm vocal core and tight production. Sometimes she sings in Slovenian, sometimes in English, sometimes in Croatian. She studied opera singing, she plays the harp in a show restaurant, and she launched her new quartet at a showcase festival. She makes music videos for herself and for others. She’s a proud artist, mother, woman.

It seems pointless saying too much about Astrid-, to be honest, as her creative spark is likely to ignite at any given moment and take her into a new direction, like a rock falling in a pool of water and sending ripples in all directions. With someone less sure of who she is, that might come off as flighty or uncertain. But Astrid- knows exactly where she stands. After all, as she’s fond of saying, art runs in her veins.