Step into AnmanLand: The Avant-Pop Universe of Anamaria Burduli

Tbilisi-born, London-raised multimedia artist Anamaria Burduli-better known as Anman is redefining alternative avant-pop. Blending Georgian polyphony-infused rap with overstimulating soundscapes, she crafts electrifying performances wrapped in DIY costumes, immersive video projections, and chaotic energy. Whether orchestrating her ADHD Funfair mini-festivals or performing in upcycled parachute dresses at The Royal Albert Hall, Anman thrives on boundary-pushing creativity.

A Youth Music Next Gen artist and past Music for Youth residency winner, she’s graced stages from the Southbank Centre (via BBC Introducing) to Georgia’s biggest festivals, sharing lineups with Moderat, Ceelo Green, Rejjie Snow, and Tom Odell. Recently, she’s turned her artistry toward activism, performing at large-scale protest concerts in Georgia’s fight for democracy.

With upcoming releases from her Sadboi In AnmanLand project—already picking up spins on NTS, Reprezent, and Garden Shed Radio,plus a growing presence in slow fashion, 3D jewelry, and immersive theater, Anman is an unstoppable force. Welcome to the ride.

Your music is a unique fusion of Avant-pop, Georgian Polyphony, and rap. What inspired you to blend these seemingly contrasting elements into your sound?

I was a theatre kid and wrote a lot of poetry so when I started recording it became a theatrical experiment with characters and multilingual vocal layers. A word in Georgian can be translated into a sentence in English and that along with its melodic, percussive potential made it the perfect substitute for instruments that I didn’t play. If you scroll far enough down on my channels there are traces of the left field audio visual pieces I made prior to collaborating with producers on what can actually be called music so a bit of that was left over.  My writing tries to condense conflicting voices and perspectives from my two cultural identities and the battle between irony and sincerity.

AnmanLand ADHD Funfair sounds like a truly immersive experience. How did the concept for these mini-festivals come about, and what do you hope audiences take away from them?

Both my theatre background and adhd/anxiety that is managed best with full immersion and hands-on engagement inspire me to create somewhat creatively inundating audience experiences. You can probably deduce that from my sentence structures. My need for overstimulation brings a maximalist tendency to stack everything on top of each and hopefully that makes for layered experiences that satisfy and enliven people.

The first event I put on with friends years ago at DIY Space for London was supposed to blur the lines between art forms and create an exhibition-gig-immersive theatre-fashion-poetry-performance event that platformed and championed independent art across genres and mediums. Since then I’ve had tattoos being done,standup comedy, screenings and installation simultaneously at events in hopes of creative cross-pollination and mixing communities. 

Your work spans multiple disciplines-music, fashion, 3D jewelry, animation, and theatrical performances. How do these different creative expressions feed into each other?

It’s all quite chaotic if I’m honest. I'd be lying if I said that a broken bit of my grandma's jewellery that I sewed onto my shoes inspired a vocal harmony.. but in my head it just comes together as a maximalist sensory experience. Much of your live repertoire is set to be released soon. Can you share more about your collaboration with Patrick Hemington on ‘Sadboi In AnmanLand’ and what listeners can expect Patrick was the person who initially made beats and musical composition from my ramblings and vocal stacks. ‘Sadboi In Anman Land’ was our duo project which we ended up putting on hold soon after starting it. I’ve since been inviting musicians from Tbilisi and London into Anman Land and he’s currently releasing independently under stable6. 

From my future release I guess you can also expect more intensity fuelled by protest against the Kremlin encroaching on Georgia and seeing autocratic far right influence spreading to the west instead of democracy spreading to the east. 

From NTS and Reprezent to Pirate Top 5, your music is gaining recognition on underground platforms. How important is independent radio and DIY culture in shaping your artistic journey?

I guess I’m a DIY independent artist in all senses so all those things are very important to me as well as grass-roots venues. I’m grateful for independent artist grants/opportunities I’ve had that give oxygen to underground music and art because it provides an authentic space to avoid the commercial dictate of needing to cater for what sells.