In the 90’s, in Krakow (Poland), Anka sings and composes with Uistiti, a lyric-less art-rock band, for wich she creates an imaginary language.
Influenced at the time by the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, by slavic and scandinavian folk music but also by the feminine musical worlds of Kate Bush and Björk, she ultimately discovers the constellation of minimalist contemporary music - like those of Steve Reich, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt or Philip Glass.
In 2005, she moves to Paris. She then begins to work on many projects based on different musical colors, which outlines the musical directions to take in the next years. At the same time, she contributes to many musical projects in Paris, as a singer and co-writer. In october 2005, she opens for the Klezmopolitan festival at La Cigale (Paris), with Olaf Hund.
During the summer of 2007, she records 4 tracks in a home studio for the Organic project (string quartet, double bass, accordeon, vibes, drums), with young artists of the creative parisian scene.
With Organic, Anka choses to mobilize the entire range of expressive potentialities of acoustic instruments traditionally associated with classical, jazz or folk music. In reaction to her urban impressions of Paris (intensity of sensations, feelings of loss of space and nature, noisy omnipresence of human activity), she favours the simplicity of lines, the organic homogeneity of form, the natural and antic beauty of repetitive rythms, and the poetic impressionism of the lyrics.
Her music goes with a conception of the Wondrous as a transformation force - a conception that reminds the Magic Realism of latin-american litterature or the poetry of the polish writer Bruno Schulz. The intense emotional commitment of Anka, in her voice and in her writing, is never demonstrative : it deploys itself into a nostalgic and sensitive exploration of a magical reality which exists only in the left-out nooks and hidden places of our world.
