It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

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Bubble World - Frankie Teardrop - 25 Jul 2025

pi/live: Maara live at Solstice Festival in Ruka, Finland 06-20-2025

“A recording from pe:rsona in France, one of the most memorable sets of the summer for me!! 

I felt a connection to this crowd in particular and that’s not something that happens often. A lot of this is down to the people behind this festival, the pe:rsona/Positive Education crew are very intentional with what they do, they champion and support a lot of artists who aren’t necessarily ‘big names’. I think this cultivates a crowd that trusts in their curation, they’ve fostered this really special energy. 

I played on Friday night between two live sets, Christian Coiffure and Renslink. They are two incredible acts to be sandwiched in-between which inspired the set to evolve the way it did. 

Big big love to the crew and to everyone who danced with me ❤️”
- @emma-jane-g

Photo: Raphael Chene & Carla Lubrano Di Sbaraglione
Mastering: Devoye Folkes

subglow/Live 6: EMA @ pe:rsona '25

sub alchemical unreleased gems 

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CCL @ The Lot Radio 10-09-2025

Live set on shift radio October 9th, 2025
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Shift Radio - Frankie Teardrop [1 hour mix 09/10/25]

one hour of deep house and dub techno from my collection. all vinyl. a warm hug if you please x

pure water

a snippet of my set at parquette for their monthly 24hr party series 'flip' - september 2025 edition with the narrativ crew. i thought this part captured rly well the peak energy on the dancefloor around 3pm before i went slow-mo for the rest of the afternoon

a huge thank you to parquette, narrativ, and the worlds-best-dancers for giving me this incredible space to express myself

kiju live at parquette

Last month I got to perform an hour of new musical ideas surrounded by many friends at Sustain Release :)  

In this set I test a lot of new sonic directions, leaning into my love of spiraling synth lines, tactile drums, and sounds that evoke playful little creatures (so I've been told) :D

This was my first time at Sustain and I'm so grateful it was memorable. Big thanks to everyone who got freaky with me in the Gymnasium! I know there were a lot of other options...

One disclaimer : For the first 5 minutes of this set I couldn't  really hear my monitors (time for in-ears I think). But know that what you hear sounded way better in the room :P

Ayesha Live @ Sustain Release Year 11

our rooftop closing set from xo noir x giegling’s party in july 2025. hope u enjoy xx

runa & asha @ xonoir x giegling [25.07.06]

closing set from Flush 09/28 (with an ever so slightly re-recorded ending 😝)
was super proud of this one <3 so thankful to the Flush crew for inviting me to play as my first set back in montreal

go flush urself

Founder of Slut Island Festival and @lipevents
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Bookings: heyfrankieteardrop@gmail.com
// dates in the future//
Dec 7: Le Systeme
Dec 14: Sala Rossa: w Pelada 
Dec 20: Star Bar
Dec 21: ESC

// dates in the past //
JUNE 10: LOT RADIO (NYC)
NOV 11: BOILER ROOM MTL
OCT 29: NORMIE CORP
OCT 28: Village Studios
OCT 28: DRILL
JUL 8: Basscoast Festival
JUN 25: Piknic Electronik
JUN 24: Datcha
APR 15: The Cobalt Vancouver
FEB 5: Daydreams (Melbourne)
FEB 1: Music Room / Skylab (Melbourne) 
DEC 23: CAR FANCY
JUNE 23: CHIMBITES/SUONI PER IL POPOLO
JUNE 18: DATCHA
JUNE 17: SHIFT RADIO
JUNE 16: STEREO BAR
JUNE 11: DOLLY
JUNE 4: HOT NEW LESBIAN PARTY @ EAST SIDE STUDIOS
JUNE 2: FABRIQUE SAINT GEORGES
MAR 11: NORMIE CORP
DEC 18: BIMBOSUMMIT & THANKS 
OCT 29: NIGHTMARE ON CARRAL STREET
AUG 15, 2021: DOLLY DISCO
APRIL 10: CLUB QUARANTINE/HOT CRIP/LIP 9PM EST
MAR 21: S.M.I.L.E
FEB 29: VAULT: UNLOCKED FESTIVAL
FEB 21: MEXICO CITY
FEB 29: VAULT MTL
FEB 18: LIP @ RESONANCE (Mtl)
FEB 20: MUY MUY in CDMX
DEC 31: LIP @ RED GATE
DEC 20: LIP @ DOLLY
NOV 22: LIP @ Clubhouse
NOV 15: Sync & Babelink (Dolly, Vancouver)
OCT 26: LIP @ KATACOMBES
OCT 19: LO RES
SEPT 21: EQUINOX NEVER APART
SEPT 13: @ La Plante
SEPT 6: LIP TORONTO
AUG 30: LIP IBIZA
AUG 17: OSTBAHNHOF LOS ANGELES
AUG 3: BACKDOOR VANCOUVER PRIDE
AUG 2: LIP VANCOUVER PRIDE
JUL 14: PIKNIC ELECTRONIK
JUL 6: VAULT X CYBERIA 
JUN 29: GRINDHER
JUN 28: NDQ TOP 40
JUN 22: NANO MUTEK PRIDE TORONTO
JUN 15: HOMEHARVEST
MAY 25: UNIKORN
MAY 24: KING PRINCESS & FRANKIE TEARDROP @ Corona Theatre
MAR 30: UNIKORN
MAR 22: LIP TORONTO CLUB120
MAR 15: IN THE DARK, NYC
MAR 9: LOPEZ_MTL
MAR 8: HOUSE PARTY
MAR 7: ELLAS BAR
MAR 2: CENTRE PHI W PELADA
MAR 1: LIP
FEB 23: N10.AS
FEB 21: DATCHA
FEB 19: N10.AS
JAN 25 - LIP 
DEC 31 - HOTLINE
DEC 29 - INDEED VICTORIA
DEC 28 - LIP VANCOUVER
DEC 15 - HOUSE WERQ
NOV 23 - LIP @ La Sotterenea
NOV 6 - Home Harvest w Ciel
OCT 26 - Berlin
SEPT 21 - datcha
JUNE 2 - at sotterenea
JUNE 1 - FTA mtl w empress, tati au miel, jupiter brown
MAY 10 - artgang w noncompliant/djshiva, dj name, heidy p 
APR 27 - 00:AM Pub Club w CC djs
APR 13 - le ritz w riobamba 
MAR 30 - artgang w tygapaw
MAR 26 - datcha w aurora halal 
MAR 3 - le Ritz
FEB 22 - datcha
JAN 19 - igloofest
DEC 16 - artgang
NOV 25 - nomad
SEP 30 - lip
SEP 23 - homodrop at datcha
SEP 8 - concordia university 
SEP 8 - motorkiller at sala rosa 
JUN 24 - smiling buddha - toronto
JUN 16 - playhouse
JUN 9 - discwoman, Cousins, LIP, Intersessions at Mural Fest
MAY 21 - babes on babes - vancouver
MAY 19 - backdoor - vancouver
MAY 6 - lip -le ritz 
APR 29 - Technofeminism - new york

Shift Radio - Frankie Teardrop [1 hour mix 09/10/25]

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