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pictures projected
as they flicker through the leaves
an afterglow of spring
sets the soil in motion
–Julian Schäfer

Fairy-esque synths, digital strings and spectral atmospherics combine to lure you into tuna's “Object Permanence”, out via NYC's Altamira Records on June 14th, 2024. In the release, tuna, real name Julian Schäfer, evokes fractals that combine his glossy audio productions with the lushness of the boreal world.

Represented through a mixture of auditory synthesis and fantastical themes, “Object Permanence” ponders, and then objects to, the idea of immutability. The natural world serves as a metaphor for the concept. An appropriated painting of a shoreline on the EP's cover may seem like a representative moment of nature's beauty and order, but through evaporation, tides, human intervention, and the life and death of millions of organisms that live within, a seemingly static frame is actually representative of a continually changing environment.

The closing song, “Melt Like Water,” encapsulates this theme with a quote by a tribal community elder from Vanuatu in Werner Herzog’s 2016 documentary, "Into the Inferno." “Everything will melt, the stones, the trees, everything, like water.” In our crumbling world, how can one expect any permanence?

All tracks written by Julian Schäfer
Piano on "let's just rest on the floor and watch the dust settle" by Theresa Worm
Artwork by Alex van Dorp
Drawings by Melanie Nguyên Pietsch, Julian Schäfer
Mastered by Christoff Reidel (https://soundcloud.com/riedelchristoff)

tuna - warding circle, woodland sprites

old head (no strings version)

Slumber Party - Britney X cenaceae (EIDA EDIT)

Lorelei - Fallen

Yasmine Des Astres - La Forêt Des Amates 
Cat. Nr: DN029
Format: Digital
Release Date: October 11, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/YasmineDesAstres 

La Forêt des Amantes was born in a daydream. “At night, under the shining moon of silver, I ran in a forest with the one I love,” describes experimental artist Yasmine des Astres. Arriving at music by necessity, rather than by intention, Yasmine des Astres arranges her voice, live instrumentation and synthesis into cinematic assemblage, drawing as much from filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, philosopher Georges Bataille and Sufi mystics like Ibn Arabi, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi and Mansour al-Hallaj, as she does any particular sound. 

Despite this, the artist remains fiercely opposed to overly academic approaches to her art. Entirely self-taught, her DIY practice emerges as the consolidation of years of personal discovery. Dropping out of school at 15, suffering severe social anxiety, the artist took solace in her mother’s rap cassettes, instilling in her a love for hip hop instrumentals. Before long she was digging for samples online to make her own beats. At the age of 16 she discovered the transcendent Gnosticism of Sun Ra, which shifted her entire worldview forever. However it was the artist’s love of cinema, in particular the films of Robert Bresson, that truly taught her what it means to be an artist. Bresson’s legendary text ‘Notes On The Cinematograph’ helped Yasmine des Astres construct a vision of art with which she could connect her sensations to her emotions. 

Specifically, the image of running through a forest at night kept returning to her, a vision she initially understood as a need for freedom, but which gradually developed into a deeper, more intense understanding. Chasing “desire as a liberating and enlightening force,” her dream of liberation became one of sexual exploration and self destruction, while La Forêt des Amantes grew into The Forest of Lesbian Lovers. “It is a dream made out of my lesbian devotion,” the artist asserts. “A desire to annihilate myself through the lesbian I would love.” Citing kindred spirit Obsequeen and Japanese experimental noise rock oddities Les Rallizes Dénudés as sonic influences, with La Forêt des Amantes Yasmine des Astres picks her way through an expansive sonic terrain of effects-laden vocals and off-kilter electronics. 
 “The album is about yearning,” she explains. “The forest doesn’t exist, it is not a forest we know. It is an absence. An absence of civilization, an absence of politics, just two lesbians and the universe around them.” 

Read more via Bandcamp 

Mastering by Rashad Becker 
Extase mixed by Julien Racine 
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann and Yasmine Des Astres

La Forêt Des Amantes

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Yasmine Des Astres - Chapitre Premier De L'Errance - IV) Lune D'argent

BeYourself

Glow

Chris Lake & Yael Watchman - On & On (bassvamp remix)

Performed at LONER_Online [vol. 1]

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? Obsequies - Épilepsie (bod [???] Piano Princess's Alprazolam Withdrawal Remix)
? Jeremih - All The Time 
? Seven Orbits - Ravevv101
? Jacques Greene - Drop Location (Lunice Remix)
? Made By Tsuki - Angel NRG (gabriel esponisa remix)
? REN - Everyone is Everyone
? Moa Pillar - Inner Pressure
? DJH - Inflicter
? REN - Axio
? Cedric Madden - Racer
? Qrion - Beach (airynore remix)
? ico - heal (former hero edit) 
? A2A - Turf
? Lapalux - Amnioverse 
? Pigeon Hole x thook - Vertigo
? REN - Clocked Out
? Former - Fogweaver
? Recovery Girl - recovery girl
? Oshirijima - URL
? Seven Orbits - Mantis
? BAYNK - Shatter feat. Martin Luke Brown (underscores remix)
? Schaus - Buying a Pool (Remix by galen tipton)
? Slikback & Hyph11E - ISHU
? Nömak - Chrystaline
? PETAL SUPPLY - Skinonurface
? IMANU - Dream Mentor
? BK Beats - Flips

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