Anyma brought his new audiovisual project ÆDEN to Coachella’s main stage in Indio, California, on the night he launched a major new chapter of his live show. The Italian-American DJ and producer, whose real name is Matteo Milleri, is set to reprise the headlining performance next Friday.
The performance also marked the start of a world tour that will move from Shanghai to Brussels, Ibiza and London before ending at Paris La Défense Arena in December. The schedule gives Anyma a global runway for a show built to travel, and for fans who have been waiting to see how far he will push it onstage.
The timing mattered. Just before the Coachella debut, Anyma and Lisa released “Bad Angel” on Wednesday, and the track had already been streamed more than six million times across Spotify and YouTube. The video shows Lisa transforming into Beatrix, a figure described as part human, part angel and seemingly part android, which made the single feel less like a side release than a key piece of the broader live universe.
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Lisa said that when Anyma first showed her the visual for the character, she loved it, and said she did not want to add any input because it was already perfect and on point. She said the concept and the song just felt so good. Anyma, for his part, said Lisa’s work is not just music but music, visuals and performance at the highest level, and he added that everything is crafted to perfection and requires dedication, stubbornness and deep focus.
Anyma and Lisa had first met at Coachella and in Ibiza, and the pair’s latest release has fed the appetite for a live version of “Bad Angel.” ÆDEN, which Anyma has framed as an ambitious new audiovisual project, sits at the center of that ambition. He has described its world as a reconciliation of a digital afterlife with the loose structure of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia, a sign that the set is meant to function as more than a concert and more than a visual display.
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That is what makes the Coachella debut matter beyond the opening-night spectacle: Anyma is not only rolling out new music, he is building a touring world around it, and the next stop is already set. The question now is not whether he can sell the idea, but how much of that world survives intact as the show moves from festival stage to arena and back again.
