Alison Lewis, known professionally as Zoè Zanias, is an Australian musician, producer, and DJ based in Berlin.
[3] Before their breakup in 2013,[4] Linea Aspera had become a major player in the resurgent minimal wave scene,[5] influencing contemporaries such as Boy Harsher.
[6] In 2012, Zanias moved to Berlin and formed the band Keluar with producer Sid Lamar from the techno outfit Schwefelgelb.
Preservation Bias, released in June 2019, featured a number of rare and unused songs from the duo's early years.
[21] Zanias made her first live collaboration as a guest singer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in 2023[22] and joined the band again at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena in 2024.
[16] Other artists she has mentioned as influences on her work include HTRK, Fever Ray, Dead Can Dance, Current 93, Tool, and Coil.
[26] In an interview with Vice, Zanias described how Berlin's expansive electronic music scene had influenced her style: "You listen to all these sounds, and the DJs at Berghain and other clubs in Berlin put in a real effort to play interesting sounds [...] When people put that effort in, you can get really inspired—even by a single really nice snare.
[27] In May 2022, Zanias reported on her Instagram that she fell victim to a needle spiking incident at the Berghain nightclub in Berlin.