Aïsha Devi returns with new album 'Death is Home' on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and her most personal work yet.

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' (2018) was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and her upcoming LP 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge.

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home. 
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releases November 10, 2023

Written, composed & produced by Aïsha Devi
Track 4 features Slikback
Mixed by Theo Karon
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, London
Manufactured at optimal-media, Germany
Cat. No. HTH172 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Houndstooth 2023

Aïsha Devi - Immortelle

'Violence' is the first track to be taken off Andy Stott's forthcoming album 'Faith In Strangers' due for release via Modern Love on November 17th/18th 2014.

Andy Stott - Violence

GAM

Lyrics:
Chasin’ but scared 
To touch me 

I know you 
You want me 

This life 
Is hectic 

I feel you 
I feel you 

I’m x 
And your x 
We both like 

Shhh 

No one 
Understands 
Us chere 

No 

I see the love you want 
Chere 

Trust me don’t gotta be scared 
Chere 

I can handle your touch 
Chere 

My ace, my love, my all 
Chere 

Don’t you wanna 
Dance with me 

In a place, 
where we’re both free 

I can feel you 
I can feel you 
Chere 
Can you feel me 
Can you feel me 
Chere 

touch me 
Please

I’m not scared 
Of what you’ll do 

My touch explosive
But I won’t, hurt you 

Chere I won’t 
hurt you 

Come be my 
Cherie 

All day and night 
On me 

Your heart beat 
Holy 

We’re both mutants 
chere 

They won’t accept us 
Chere 

But I accept you 
Chere 

Fxck the world 
Aslong as you’re there 
Chere

I want your touch 
Chere 

Look me in my eyes 
And tell me if you see I’m scared 

I’m not 
I’m not 
I’m not 
I’m not scared chere 

I’m not 
I’m not 
I’m not scared chere 

Touch me 
Touch me 
Touch me here chere 

Touch me 
Touch me 
Touch my face chere 

(Repeats)

SOLITAIRE [slowed + reverb] (prod  anyvibe, SeanP, damipro)

04 - All Eternity

EASTER - LEDA

from album "Too Many Voices" (2016)
https://www.discogs.com/Andy-Stott-Too-Many-Voices-/release/8444700

Too Many Voices

Andy Stott - New Romantic

Produced by @coucouchloe & @ka-blam
Vocals by coucou chloe

Artwork photography by Nhu Xuan Hua
Artwork graphic design by Jase Coop

Mastered by Sean D

erika jane

COUCOU CHLOE — SYLPH (PROD BY KABLAM & COUCOU CHLOE)

For The Beasts

FREE DL

oklou & Casey MQ - LURK

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Aïsha Devi has announced the release of her second album ‘DNA Feelings’ out 11th May. In conjunction with the album announcement came first track ‘Inner State Of Alchemy.’

The second track to feature 'Dislocation Of The Alpha' shows Aïsha creating an almost dreamlike aural state as she calls for her listeners to “Unlearn, dislocate the Alpha.” It’s a significant statement that delves into both the political and the philisophical and yet is only something that could have been made by Devi.
 
TWO SERPENTS OF FREQUENCIES CIRCLING AND ELEVATING, HEALING ATOMIC AND ENERGETIC FORM 

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https://www.aishadevi.com
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https://www.instagram.com/aishadevi5d/
https://twitter.com/aisha_devi
https://soundcloud.com/aisha-devi

EASTER - LEDA

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