About

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Amarevois has an unusual name and an unusual history. Songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, film maker, photographer, poet and artist, she’s been described as ‘the version queen’ and her work as ‘dizzyingly vast and ambitious.’ Her profile blurb suggests that her ‘work explores both the divine and the demonic and seeks to dissolve the boundaries of identity that keeps us separated.’ Her work consists of concept albums, soundscapes, novels, films, motion graphics, poetry volumes, photographic series and sound healings and meditations.

“It is hard to describe Amarevois, its difficult to pigeonhole her, because she does it all and she keeps shifting. Her work is an ambient landscape, imbued with classical elements and a menacing, compelling depth. Her voice can freeze your blood and melt your soul.” – Sean Hegarty

Tracks on her current EP Citizen have been variously described as Conscious Pop, Blip-Hop, Electro-Jazz, Glowstep, Lushbeat, Dreampunk, Hauntcore and Filmwave.

Perhaps best known in international circles for her soaring, euphoric vocal and lyric on Scrambler’s seminal breakbeat track Free, Amarevois’ opus Oraculum is a sci-fi fantasy novel/film and concept album of immense scope, whose themes include artificial intelligence, spiritual politics, shamanism and the power of sound. Oraculum’s first single Ecstasis, won the Australian International Music Video Award for best Electronic music video, which Amarevois wrote, shot, directed, edited and composited. She has won several other awards for her film scores and sound design and is a dynamic live performer and plays over 20 instruments.

Amarevois started her music career by forming her first band at the age of eight, after buying a Prince album at a trash and treasure with stolen money. Growing up without parents, in institutions, she found that as an artist, she could remake the world and be inspired by her creations and in turn inspire others. In music, she found a powerful and rich self that drove her to survive and thrive in a world that made little sense.

“Being without ancestors or biological family, I grew up free of nationality, religion, or any kind of identity or belonging, lineage or expectations upon me. I felt a bit like the joker in the deck – outside of the cultural game and therefore free to play it with complete ideological freedom. This has been essential to the themes in my work.”

Citizen, her new EP release, consists of seven versions or re-imaginings of a single song across various genres and asks some provocative questions about our attitudes and identities in this era of globalisation, corporatisation and growing spiritual maturity and cosmic awareness.

“Listening to Amarevois’ music is like being gently bathed in swirls of dreamy complexity. It takes you on a vast, inexpressible journey.” – Sean Hegarty

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