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Amamelia is the musical project of Amelia Berry (she/her), a musician and songwriter from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) who is currently based in Naarm (Melbourne). Amamelia’s catalogue explores electronica and breakbeat while experimenting with sapphic synthesis.

Amamelia began with humble beginnings with Berry quietly uploading a breakbeat rework of Savage’s 2005 single Swing to Bandcamp. Her debut WOW! was shortlisted for the Best Independent Debut award at the 2021 Taite Music Prize and Berry took home the Favourite Solo Act Award later that year at the inaugural Student Radio Network Awards. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences, including Yellow Magic Orchestra, Virginia Astley, and LTJ Bukem, Amamelia’s second album Bananamelia! led her to win Te Manu Taki Tāhiko o te Tau (Best Electronic Artist) at the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards.

Amamelia has a wide discography of remixes, lending her hand at recontextualising songs by including Hallelujah Picassos, Imugi 이무기, Samara Alofa & PollyHill, Null Object, Grecco Romank and Baby Zionov. Outside of Amamelia, Berry is involved with musical acts Babyteeth, Van Staden & Böhm (VSB), the Forbin Project, Fimo and Gayblade. In the past she’s been the mastermind behind the romantic jangle of Polyester (who were recently covered by The Beths), and one third of queer DJ trio PWB.

“Theme From Living was the first song I wrote for the album and I needed something to set the tone. I knew I wanted sunshine pop, something a bit bubblegum and psychedelic,” reminisces Amelia.

“I came up with the vocal melody while I was waiting for the train at the Footscray station, I hid behind a pillar to sing it into my phone. It wasn’t until I got home that I realised it was in crazy shifting time signatures. I love a bit of a unison gang vocal so I called up my friends and everyone really pulled through!”

“I’m also really proud of the kind of Mort Garson synth whistling sound – that was really fun to put together. Because I don’t have a synth with a triangle or sine oscillator, the main body of the sound is made by pushing the filter into self-oscillation and then tuning the resonance. There’s a way that it interacts with any tones or white noise that you put through the filter that’s really unstable and beautiful.”

Find Theme From Living along with ‘Summerlong’ and ‘The Floating Opera’ on Amamelia’s new album The Joy Of Living, available on April 17 on Vinyl LP or digital formats.

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Amamelia is the musical project of Amelia Berry (she/her), a musician and songwriter from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) who is currently based in Naarm (Melbourne). Amamelia’s catalogue explores electronica and breakbeat while experimenting with sapphic synthesis.

Amamelia has a wide discography of remixes, lending her hand at recontextualising songs by including Hallelujah Picassos, Imugi 이무기, Samara Alofa & PollyHill, Null Object, Grecco Romank and Baby Zionov. Outside of Amamelia, Berry is involved with musical acts Babyteeth, Van Staden & Böhm (VSB), the Forbin Project, Fimo and Gayblade. In the past she’s been the mastermind behind the romantic jangle of Polyester (who were recently covered by The Beths), and one third of queer DJ trio PWB.