The 18-Year Journey of "Wilde Renate"

This isn’t just a track; it’s a lifetime of sonic archaeology. "Wilde Renate" is a bridge spanning nearly two decades, three distinct eras of my life, and the connection between Romania and Berlin.

The Timeline

2007 | The Spark: The female vocals I layered into the track are from the very first song I ever wrote. These lyrics have been waiting 18 years to find their final home.

August 2018 | The Memory: In a studio in Brașov, Romania, my old friend and guitarist Sebastian Lala recorded a part that appears throughout the track—a recurring echo of where I came from.

August 2025 | The Rebirth: The story culminates in Berlin, inside a studio at Salon Zur Wilden Renate, just one week before my "soul club" closed its doors.

The Analog Spirit

The track’s gritty, authentic character comes from a collection of analog instruments my friend Kat salvaged from a shipping container she bought from a stranger in Berlin.

The session was a magnet for spontaneous energy:

The Neighbor: A guy from the studio next door stopped by to lend us a microphone, ended up singing on the session, and I wove my 2007 vocals over his playing to create a new narrative.

The Final Polish: I mixed the track myself, with Răzvan {Utip} stepping in to add the drum layers that finally anchored the 2007 vocals, the 2018 guitar, and the 2025 analog synths.

From the first words I wrote in 2007 to the final nights of a Berlin legend in 2025, "Wilde Renate" is a tribute to the persistence of art and the gear that finds us along the way.

Luceafărul Berlinez" (The Berliner Evening Star) is a haunting journey through the intersection of romantic longing and urban displacement. Bridging the gap between the lyrical soul of Romanian poetry and the cold, pulsating heartbeat of Berlin's nights, the track is an exercise in vulnerability and avant-garde exploration.

With a raw, theatrical vocal delivery set against a minimalist electronic backdrop, Oana Puciu captures the essence of the "stranger in a familiar land." It is a song for the night-dwellers, the dreamers on the S-Bahn, and those who carry their roots like constellations through foreign cityscapes.

Credits:

Written and Performed by Oana Puciu

Genre: Art-Pop / Experimental / Spoken Word

...o metaforă pentru așteptare și pentru acea „perfecțiune” care stă gata de plecare sau care a plecat deja. E ceva static, elegant, dar încărcat de o tensiune care nu are unde să se descarce...

Whoever has ears, let them hear.

“If anyone is to go into captivity,

into captivity they will go.

If anyone is to be killed[c] with the sword,

with the sword they will be killed.”

Take one.. just messing around with some otherworldly frequencies done by some really crazy sound generating vst's and modular synths

A reinterpretation of Laurie Anderson's vocal patterns. Deconstructed. Reassembled

🕯️ Inspired by the horror film #ThePrettyThingThatLivesinthe House, this track blends modulated glitch voices, deep bass, and layered atmospheres to create a haunting presence.

It’s an orderly disorder — carefully crafted chaos that pulls you into a shadowy, tense space. Minimal, mysterious, and alive with restless energy.

Collaboration with @Hari

Techno remake of Goodbye

Pain au Chocolat by Oana Puciu

Izvorul Noptii by Oana Puciu