Resisting categorization, DECHA’s music moves along and across the edges of multiple genres. Her tracks are shaped by metrical rhythms, playful melodies, and spherical sounds. The distinctive vocals, which seem to rise from a place of emotional depth, are expressed alternately in Spanish, German, and a fictitiously constructed language that builds into layered textures and at times spills over with intensity. A multitude of personalities and identities, voices and languages, harmonies and dissonances sound out and resonate, creating an immersive, polyphonic sound space that listeners are invited into and enveloped by. Everyday life flows into the tracks, which are recorded with lo-fi technical equipment and manually modulated. DECHA’s hybrid, sometimes raw sound arrangements and text fragments reflect the different roles and positions she occupies – or that we perhaps all do.

DECHA is the solo musical project of Viktoria Wehrmeister (b. 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico). A multidisciplinary artist, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and UCLA, Los Angeles and now lives and works in Düsseldorf. In the 1990s, she collaborated with Klaus Dinger in the band la! NEU?. In 2014, she founded Toresch with Detlef Weinrich (Tolouse Low Trax) and Jan Wagner. As DECHA, Viktoria Wehrmeister has released two solo albums, Hielo boca (2019) and La vida te busca (2021). Both reached international audiences following their appearance on the Berlin label Malka Tuti, which has championed the opening up of isolated scenes ever since it was launched in 2015.

The concert is the first event within the new program series (number of) weeks later. For the occasion, Viktoria Wehrmeister will present a newly composed intro that will act as a kind of framing device for forthcoming events in the series.

Organised by Clara Maria Blasius

(number of) weeks later is supported by The Gingko Foundation.