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Artist
Pose Dia
12+ albums
alternativeelectronicgermanyexperimental
about
Pose Dia is the moniker of film-maker and musician Helena Ratka. A soundtrack and theatre composer, as well as resident DJ atHamburg’s Golden Pudel Club, Ratka emerged onto the scene as one half of Shari Vari (together with Sophia Kennedy). Now all these pathways or winding roads have converged to create Pose Dia and an impressive album of many facets – a self-assured debut. “The origins of the Pose Dia name go back to my great aunt who was a dancer in the 1920s. Some years ago, I heard an old tape of a home concert with her and her husband. He was a composer and she was singing. Her delivery was similar to my own style today. I was thinking about a name for my solo project when I remembered a picture on the wall at my great aunt’s of an abstract character named Pose Dia. ”Born in Hamburg, where she continues to live and work, Helena Ratka played the saxophone in her school’s big band. She then set the sax aside and began experimenting with electronic sounds, initially with film soundtracks in mind for her studies. It was around this time that she picked up a regular DJ gig at the Golden Pudel Club as Ratkat, which led to her meeting Sophia Kennedy. The pair formed a duo, Shari Vari, recorded an album and played numerous concerts. This collaboration galvanized Ratka into focusing her efforts more intensely on making music, a welcome counterweight to the somewhat drawn-out proc
