An eclectic compilation produced during the 2nd edition of the artistic residency program Rezidența21 - MMXX-II - that took place in the village Letea of the Danube Delta during September 2022. The MMXX-II edition was dedicated to the Romanian queer music scene. Buy the digital album in support for the next edition.

Text ”LA ÎNCEPUT ERA DUREREA”  - NORA UGRON

You can watch the short documentary from Letea here: youtu.be/ifu8SLC_yms
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released December 30, 2022

Artists: #FLUID (Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker & Alex Bălă), Admina, Sofia Zadar, +SHE+, Suce Fraga, p1ne tree (Vitaly Yankovy), Chlorys, Brașov.
Including lyrics by Nóra Ugron from her debut poetry volume ”Orlando Posthuman”.

Rezidența21 is a program curated & produced by Michelle Panthère.

Fluid X Admina- Durere

Admina is a DJ, producer, visual artist, and founding member of Corp, a platform for electronic music artists and DJs representing individuals on the female and non-binary spectrum. 

They are also part of Arp148, a show that discovers, explores, and represents queer musicians, and they host a podcast show called "Corpcast," which focuses on discussing the queer club scene and creating safer spaces in the music scene.

Their personal projects include feminist poems, audio and video experiments, as well as dance and theater performances.

#FLUID (born 2016) - a queer act based in Bucharest - is the collaboration between Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker (performer, choreographer, actress, writer), Alex Bălă (musician) and other warped creatures. Using sound, music and a microphone as tender tools, FLUID fits into the techno-faggothique neo-genre. The duo's live appearances include very diverse  scenes and events as : MACAZ -  Bar Teatru Coop., POINT - Theatre, Sala Dalles for Eco Delta Dunării Project, Replika - Center for Educational Theatre, Street Delivery 2016, Bucharest Pride 2016, Queer Night, Voila Psychiatric Hospital (for the project ”Normality, Such a Brutal Word !” - MNAC), CAPITOL Summer Theatre, Amural Festival 3 &4/ 2017 + 2018 (Brașov), the exhibition WE WILL NOT CHANGE OUR SHOW, Brno, Czech Republic, One Gallery, Sofia, OWR 2019  & 2020 Film Festival and two weddings.

Bălă is the tentative alias under which Alex Bălă releases his own music. Alex Bălă is a musician based in Bucharest, Romania. He plays in the queer act #FLUID and the krautrock band deathbycoconut, often collaborates with Gabriela and Cristian Fierbințeanu (Plurabelle, Fierbinteanu etc) and makes music for theatre, dance, film, installations and all manner of performative works.

He has performed, either with his groups or with various stage productions, as music composer and/or performer, in London (Romanian Cultural Institute), Lisbon (Teatro dos Aloés), Berlin (Kantine am Berghain, Loophole Club, Between Bridges Gallery), Venice (Casinò di Venezia for the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale), Prague (Cafe v Lese, Bajkazyl), Brno (Dům umění města Brna), Sofia (One Gallery), Athens (Modern Times Theatre), Kalamata (the Philharmonic), Santorini (Santozeum), among others.

Any and all inquiries: alex.bala@yahoo.com

a sweet disturbance of Renate Dinu https://www.instagram.com/_renaughty_/ 

🦩 half of @totally5pic3

Gradually gaining comfort on stage in recent years as a performer, Renaughty emerged, blending in with her host, Renate Dinu. Beat by beat, and a bit more, she changes the rhythm. Combining raw and dark techno with electronic nostalgic excerpts and, most of the times, hypnotic lyrics, she brings enchanting sets to remind us that the body is the main instrument of reality. Re takes our pleasure on the dancefloor seriously, not just as escapism, but also as a political stand on hedonism, a way to reconnect to the world through direct intense experience, from within. 
Expect firy shifts of uplifting energy.

🄿🅁🄾🄹🄴🄲🅃🅂
Together with Lidia Ilici / @lidia-ilici-milady, I have also morphed into the @totally5pic3 duo, storming the Dj Bucharest scene through techno-pop love, uk garage from the heart, broken rave anthems and pink psychedelia. Detecting an up-beat future with the sheer enthusiasm of an unknown thrill.
♡ Find us also on Youtube ♡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGOu8GQcr0Y&t=2s