Biography
Originally trained as an art historian, Canadian spoken word performer Myra Davies discovered fresh outlets for expression through immersion in Berlin’s close-knit experimental music community. While selecting acts for Expo ’86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, she encountered Skinny Puppy’s Nivek Ogre, who connected her with Einstürzende Neubauten and Gudrun Gut; the latter became Davies’s enduring creative partner. From 1991 onward the pair operated as Miasma, issuing three albums—1993’s Miasma, 1997’s Miasma 2, and 2002’s Miasma 3—on Moabit Musik and staging multimedia productions. In the later 2000s Davies resumed solo releases, adding Beate Bartel, Alexander Hacke, and Danielle de Picciotto to her circle of collaborators for the 2008 EP The Girl Suite and the album Cities and Girls, which earned a nomination for Best Album at the 2010 Qwartz Electronic Music Awards. She resurfaced in 2017 with Sirens, again featuring Gut and Bartel alongside pieces that engaged with Götterdammerung, the concluding opera of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
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