AFRODEUTSCHE

AFRODEUTSCHE (Henrietta Smith-Rolla), is a British born Ghanaian-Russian-German artist, composer, producer, and DJ based in Manchester.

Her polyrhythmic compositions integrate a wide array of musical genres, including Afrofuturistic electro and techno, classical solo piano, and Detroit legacy house.

AFRODEUTSCHE’S written score, by contrast, sits in a much more organic space – in 2019 she wrote a piano-led minimalist soundtrack to Sasha Rainbow’s Bafta nominated and Oscar longlisted documentary Kamali.  She has since composed the score for Poppy de Villeneuve’s feature Destiny on the Main Stage, and was commissioned by the UN to compose their ‘Force to Flee’ series alongside Max Richter.  In 2021, AFRODEUTSCHE was commissioned alongside Daniel Avery and Aïsha Devi, by the BBC Concert Orchestra, André de Ridder and the Southbank Centre as part of their concert series ‘Unclassified Live’, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Praised by the Guardian for enacting a new wave of club music, named by Dummy Mag as one of 2019’s most exciting artists, AFRODEUTSCHE’s spectacular debut album ‘Break Before Make’ was released on the legendary Skam label.

Hosting a regular radio show on the renowned NTS, AFRODEUTSCHE entrances listeners with her idiosyncratic combinations of dark electro, breaks, footwork, ghetto tech and jacking house.  Forever evolving a fully live hardware show, AFRODEUTSCHE has already appeared alongside celebrated producers Dopplereffekt and, replaced Iggy Pop as host of the ‘The People’s Party’ weekly show on BBC Radio 6.