AMIMEA

Being a restless and self-reinventing performer and songwriter, usually combining multiple instruments and literate lyrics in her projects LIJO and Ilen Mer, AMIMEA is the moniker under which Merit Visser explores the very foundation of her love for music: the piano. After FOR GRANTED, the debut album that was the result of 24 hours of aimlessly improvising in the first weekend of lockdown, she found herself returning to the piano in between her other musical projects looking for simplicity and comfort. Being an autodidact pianist, she had always viewed the piano as being her composition instrument that had never stood on its own; therefore she never considered herself a ‘true’ solo pianist, which made her approach her own compositions with both curiosity and skepticism. Even the moniker of this project was diverted from the question if a pianist was something she could allow herself to be: ‘am I me?’ Finding that this question only arose before or after composing, but never during, she ended up writing her second album A MILLION TINY LENSES, which was also recorded in one day with the charm of capturing the moment in mind. She values true connection with her audience and regards her live shows as an interaction rather than just a performance. To emphasize and deepen this idea, she invites her listeners to draw and write during her concert, and collects the artwork afterwards. This Audience Art inspires new music: the Tiny Answers EPs.