While its title at first calls to mind a Jodorowskian kitchen sink psychedelia, Desvelada and Sprælle’s debut EP as a duo ’escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird’ veers tonally closer to the twilight realm of Béla Tarr. The work summons images. Empty windswept expanses, conversational vocals that seem to phase in and out of focus, spare synth bass and mournful drones create for us a hinterland of abandoned narratives, of characters unsure or unaware or unwilling to see that they are ghosts, but carrying with them a fatigued and defiant air of hope throughout.

Hailing from central Texas and west of France, Desvelada and Sprælle met in student living spaces while studying in Austin, Texas. The pair’s deep bond and friendship soon came to resemble something more like a romance, they began to produce pieces of music together, honing their skills in the small but burbling scene of Texas experimental live music. Sprælle’s art rock beginnings and distended guitar and production work folded lovingly into Desvelada’s choir upbringing and live vocal processing to create a sound and feeling all their own. Filmic and distant, like an aerial view of a springtime meadow timelessly marooned in suburbia instead of prehistory.

Taking cues from artists as varied as Tricky to David Berman, Ryuichi Sakamoto to Jorge Luis Borges, Sprælle and Desvelada sus from their toolkit a reserved storybook that speaks rather than sings. Percussive elements shuffle along like creekwater driftwood, loons in the reedbeds, all chirps and croaks; the arroyo at dusk. ‘escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird’ is a hushed purge of woodland noir, of interior poetry, watching the fog slowly overcome what’s left of the evening light, begging the spirit to speak.

Tracklist:
1. épié
2. linde cruel
3. turn to talk
4. venus purs
5. tree up ahead


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Desvelada and Sprælle - escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird

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Ebenezer Group - The Miami Story (Arzat Skia Flute Mix)

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vocals, lead/rhythm guitar, synth - Barrett Avner
bass, additional synth - Coolwater 

Mixed and mastered by Alex Talan

Barrett Avner - Mean Nothing / Empty Crusade (Power Ballad)

turn to talk

tree up ahead

venus purs

linde cruel

épié

Mix3: Power Ballads - edits, live versions, demos, and classics 💔

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Crash Alley - Summer's Fall
Cinderella - Don’t Know What You Got (Til It’s Gone) (Live)
Gary Stewart/George Strait (BA Edit) - Shady Streets Pt. 2 (Live)/Knockin On Heaven's Door
Alien - Brave New Love
Vain - 1000 Degrees
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Guns N’ Roses - unknown live bootleg ballad (1985)
Trouble - The Misery Shows II
Aerosmith - Angel (Remastered Demo Mix)
Ratt - Giving Yourself Away
Staind - Believe
Stryper - Live (Unknown)
Barrett Avner - I Feel Free (Stem)

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JOE DELIA Untitled (The Blackout)
JOE DELIA/SCHOOLLY D The Player
JOE DELIA Untitled (King Of New York)
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SCHOOLLY D Eternity
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JOE DELIA Ms 45 Dance Party
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HI-GLOSS You'll Never Know
CHICK COREA Day Danse
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GENE NEWTON Approaching The Portal (Theme From New Rose Hotel)
JOE DELIA Untitled (The Blackout)
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SINE Rotation (Vocal)
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JOE DELIA Untitled (The Blackout)
JOE DELIA End Credits (Fear City)
THE DAVID JOHANSEN GROUP King Of Babylon
UNV UNV Thang
JOE DELIA Untitled (The Blackout)
SCHOOLLY D Get Butt Naked
ONYX  Betta Off Dead
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