Biography
German-Brazilian musician and visual artist Gloria de Oliveira's most recent album, "Oceans of Time", a collaboration with David Lynch-protegé and sound designer Dean Hurley, was released in September 2022 via Sacred Bones Records and highly recommended by publications such as The Wire and NTS Radio, and highlighted as "an ethereal gem" in a 9/10 review by Loud and Quiet Magazine.
Writing and performing music since childhood, Gloria de Oliveira first aspired and trained to become an opera singer - through a twist of fate she landed at drama school in London instead, subsequently working for the stage, film and radio, starring in international features and TV shows such as "Babylon Berlin" and Christian Petzold’s Berlinale winner "Undine".
In 2017, she started to release demo tracks to the internet with the Synthwave project lovespells, culminating in the EP "Lua Azul". Since then, she has been focussing on her musical practice, the atmosphere of her songs supported by her mostly self-directed music videos. In 2018, Gloria won the Krach + Getoese prize, Hamburg’s award and support programme for up-and-coming musicians, which enabled her to work on her two self-produced EPs, "La Rose de Fer" and "Lèvres de Sang" (named after the vampire film classics by Jean Rollin) at the analogue studio Clouds Hill Recordings. Both were released on limited edition cassette tape through her own imprint La Double Vie and the cult cassette label Dispersion in 2019.
On March 27, 2020, Gloria de Oliveira's debut full length, "Fascination", was released via Reptile Music/Cargo Records, including remixes by artists such as Gudrun Gut, Box And The Twins and Fragrance.
In 2021, she composed & produced the score for Peter Thiers’ play "Paradiesische Bauten", which premiered at the renowned Thalia Theater in Hamburg. In February 2022, she was commissioned to score and invited to play live by art director Leith Clark at Turkish designer Bora Aksu's A/W 23 Catwalk show during London Fashion Week.
In March ‘23, she was invited as an official artist to SxSW and performed at the coveted Levitation showcase at Hotel Vegas, among other shows. The following summer, she presented her Commissioned Work "SEREA" at Pop-Kultur Berlin - a project inspired by Homer’s sirens via Bossa Nova and Fado and reviewed as "the emotional highlight of the festival" (gaesteliste.de).
Currently working on her third album with cult producer Randall Dunn, de Oliveira's most recent musical output includes her rework of the piece "Cherry Blossom" (via Nettwerk) by Peruvian composer & pianist Sergio Díaz De Rojas, and a remix of "Dissoziation" by Leipzig-based Psych-Pop/Krautrock group Flying Moon in Space (via Fuzz Club).