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11 - The Heartikalist - Dark Romance

08 - Val Tribulation - Pyramid

Mixed & produced by
Handyman, Cogli-P, Jr Rama & Articall Vibration

Distribution & Artwork by
HFD Records
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releases February 21, 2025


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To those suspended moments.
Those thresholds where the day stretches, where light hesitates, where shadows reach out but never close their grip. That in-between where everything is just half of something else. Maybe music, in the end, is just that.

I didn’t try to compose a series of tracks. What I wanted was a comet, a continuous vibration. If there has to be silence, it should carry weight. If there’s grain, it should be rough. If something is born, it must rise from what came before. An echo has both its source and its rebound, and the rebound remembers.

This album holds memories of a time I never knew. Analog warmth, tape wobbles, sparks filled with imperfections. Layers and fragments of a future only half-imagined, artifacts that feel almost unreal.

And then, there are the images. The burn of an orange sun scraping the horizon, a deep blue night where every star feels both infinitely close and impossibly distant. Heavy skies, soaked in salt. Voices erased by the wind but still lingering, somewhere, like whispers of an echo.

I think I wanted to capture something alive, something instinctive. Like those raw, untamed truths—wild yet wise, brutal yet...  more
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released March 28, 2025

Composed and written by Mezcal
Mixed and mastered by Mezcal with the wise and precious advice of Charlie Mystic
Photography by La Fabrique Sauvage
Videos by Thomas Armato and Charlie Mystic
01, 04, 05 , 09 - Voiced by Mezcal
08 - with the lovely collaboration of Art Marcelino (Red Echoes), Turbo Torsi, Baltimores, Mad Max
13 - The intro is a record from a producing session with Charlie at Mystic Wood Studio


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