AVR (Anna von Raison) is a genre-fluid artist, weaving together elements of dream pop, experimental electronica, jazz, and ambient into what she calls “the movies in her head.” Her music unfolds like a series of sonic vignettes—each track a scene, each lyric a line of dialogue whispered from the subconscious. After time spent living in Amsterdam and New York, she is now based in Berlin, though her sound is shaped just as much by inner landscapes as by the cities, people, and memories she moves through. AVR’s world is cinematic, intimate, and ever-shifting.

Trained in classical and jazz piano, guided by both instinct and tradition, Anna von Raison builds her songs from fragments—voice memos, ambient textures, field recordings, and late-night synth improvisations. Her sound draws from the hypnotic minimalism of Philip Glass, the narrative richness of Björk, Beck, and Dean Blunt, and the transgressive energy of artists as Sophie or FKA Twigs. The result is a rich tapestry and complex beat worlds—music that feels like lucid dreaming: surreal, emotionally raw, and strangely familiar.

Her debut trilogy—Hallucination (EP), Vibration (EP), Salvation (LP)—is a collection of visual memories scored in sound. Themes of detachment, desire, nostalgia, and transformation drift through her work like recurring characters in a film. Think moods somewhere between Euphoria and The White Lotus —lush, cinematic, hypnotic.

Her rework of Philip Glass’s Piano Etude No. 2 was released in early 2024 on Glass’s own label, Orange Mountain Music, and became the centerpiece of a visual collaboration with French fashion house Mugler. She also recorded studio piano for Soundwalk Collective’s sonic tribute to Serge Gainsbourg for Maison Gainsbourg, blurring the lines between high-art composition and conceptual storytelling.

AVR’s track “Under the Sand” appears on the official soundtrack of the U.S. film After Everything, now streaming on Amazon Prime. She has also composed scores for campaigns and short films for Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Mercedes-Benz, blending her sonic language seamlessly into fashion, film, and visual culture.

Her work has been widely acclaimed by The Fader, i-D, Clash, and Interview Magazine, and supported on BBC Radio 6 Music (Gilles Peterson, Lauren Laverne, Deb Grant / New Music Fix Daily) and BBC Radio 1 (Benji B).

“AVR is the most exciting new avant-gardist in today’s pop world.” — Rolling Stone
“AVR is a formidable contemporary artist, but also as a visionary shaping the future of pop music.” — DMY

With each release, AVR invites listeners into the theater of her mind, where genres blur and raw emotion takes center stage.