Alter Festival

Ana Fosca

Ana Fosca is a formidable presence — a woman raging, wrestling, and haunted by humanity’s tragedy, violence, and decay. Her sound is a dark, bleak noise that captures raw existence in all its cruelty. Though her discography is brief, she has honed her expression through intense live performances across Denmark, Sweden, and Germany, especially within Copenhagen’s wild underground.

Her fierce performative expression is deeply rooted in a broad philosophical and artistic lineage: Kierkegaard, Plath, Tarkovsky, Arendt, Vienna Aktionism, Eliane Radigue, and Simone de Beauvoir — all woven into a sonic total work of art.

On her debut album for Helen Scarsdale Agency, Ana Fosca unleashes her gesamtkunstwerk in a cyclone of opposing forces, searing noise, and ominous drone. Her voice is a raw, repetitive chant — a cathartic ritual where the mathematics of grief emerges, transcending the personal to the universal. She refuses to be confined by genres like power electronics or dark ambient, instead absorbing and transforming their essence into her own brutal universe. Emerging from the Danish underground, she shares kinship with Posh Isolation and Puce Mary, while drawing on the industrial violence of Maeror Tri and Troum.