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Annika a.k.a. Ajlis Zipresse

in a restless world like this is – come to mama

About Me

Annika Silja Sesterhenn is a local Berlin Singer. With her Jazz-Ensemble moon indigo she regularly plays in Clubs and on Events. You can enjoy moon indigo almost every friday at The Curtain Club, the highclass bar of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Find out more about moon indigo on the Site www.moonindigo.de. Beside her Jazzsinging Annika Silja Sesterhenn works together with several music-projects in Berlin, like the electro-project Team de la Cream or DJs like Carsten Kleemann (both in concerts at Café Moskau (Club)). She also works as studiosinger together with the composer team of tonbüro adlershof for Promotion (for example Philips-x-mas-internet-clips) and tv-series (little princess, die 10 gebote u.a.). As background singer she worked together with several artists (for example westbam) and is actually backing the great soul-singer and ex-platters member keith tynes. She writes songs and lyrics for her own egocentric project under her alter ego Ajlis Zipresse. (NEW: You can now listen to three songs of Annika a.k.a. Ajlis Zipresse on this site! The songs are in progress. All songs and lyrics written by Annika. All voices by Annika. Midi-Instruments and loops Garageband) She also writes songs and lyrics for other artists. due to her studies in literature and linguistics in spanish, catalan and arabic she is not only inspired by other musicians and bands but also by literature and cinema.she feels that her occupation with languages and literatures frees her mind and helps her to get new ideas for her music and new approaches to lyric.
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Member Since: 1/17/2007
Band Website: moonindigo.de
Band Members:
Influences: music: prince, ella fitzgerald, miriam makeba, jhelisa, moloko, jill scott, otis redding, frank zappa, frank sinatra, tom waits, missy elliot, roots manuva, harry belafonte, dayna kurtz, simon and garfunkel, carmen mcrae, betty carter, elis regina, simphiwe dana, oscar brown jr., caetano veloso, um kulthoum, aretha franklin, take 6, fat freddys drop, ani di franco, the streets, mother´s finest, zap mama, lee morgan, curtis mayfield, nat king cole, charles mingus, lou rawls, esra mohawk, john coltrane, the doors, della reese, dinah washington, patti smith, tracey chapman, atlantis (with inga rumpf), sade, miles davis, george benson, oumou sangare and more and more and more. . . . literature: amin maalouf, rabih alameddine, juan josé millas, màrquez, octavio paz, wolf haas, christian morgenstern, salman rushdie, robert frost, antonio munoz molina, bulgakow, eva menasse, siri hustvedt, carlos ruiz zafon, rainer maria rilke, martin suter, pedro zarraluki, albert sànchez pinol, nick hornby, tom robbins, andré´gide, jonathan frantzen, shakespeare and more and more and more. . . . movie/regie: almodóvar, jim jarmusch, Alejandro González Iñárritu, álex de la iglesia, cinema paradiso, kinder des himmels, historias minimas, nosferatu, angel heart, ghost dog, zhuh yuhs zug, tiger and dragon, kiss of the dragon and more and more. . .
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

READ SOME POEMS OF MINE (in german, sorry)

GesprächBeruhige dichdir Kerze ist noch annur ein flüchtiger Schatten sprangzitternd über die Wände des RaumesEs ist nichtsals der schwindende Resteines Traumesder dich ängstigte heute nachtIch weiß n...
Posted by Annika a.k.a. Ajlis Zipresse on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:42:00 PST