PONIKA is Barbara Schulz and Joerg W. Theurer. Barbara sings and plays drums, Joerg sings and plays guitar, keyboards, synth and all the rest. They write all the music together.
"I am wearing a coat made of melancholy. Today I will throw it away and dance like never before."
PONIKA tell stories of repressed feelings and forbidden sounds. Their techno chansons are about getting lost in the drunken night and to be roused the next morning by flamboyant lights. The promise of luck is rapidly turned into doubt, that both feelings could fit into one track. It's about life outside and the fights in-between. Glamour according to PONIKA is some kind of pink plastic and black iron concrete.
Barbara Schulz and Jörg Theurer live in Hamburg St. Pauli, which can be a rough place to be sometimes. As PONIKA they love both the old Love Parade stomp and Pet Shop Boys. Their lingo is straight into your face, and the sounds come not only but also from ugly and frightening equipment of the good old 80s. Nevertheless, there is also some imponderable moment which makes it difficult where to assign PONIKA, as they do not want any taboos but are also damn clever. Their normal temperature is close to fire, but they have not lost their fringes yet. They are two people who fight against the rest of the world. And against themselves.
Amongst their reduced electronic beats, PONIKA love to give it a powerful flick. Maybe that is emotional partical physics, which gives every single moment the possibility of turning everything into luck or disaster. PONIKA tracks are similar to ripped out pages in your diary, that you keep nontheless. PONIKA write music which can be ear candy but very hard as well, as they like to give it the whip sometimes.
PONIKA is like life: synthetic, scary, dark and sexy.
(Andi Schoon)
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