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'May 99' out April 23, 2023

Cello: Charles Curtis
Guitar: Alan Licht
Electronics: Dean Roberts

Mixing by Jade Guterman
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Photos by Thomas Ankersmit
Design by Alec Mapes-Frances

https://www.blankforms.org/publications/charles-curtis-alan-licht-dean-roberts-may-99

https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/may-99

Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, Dean Roberts - May 99a (excerpt)

After 2022’s In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Romance and Dean Hurley return with River of Dreams; continuing their prismatic dissection of the daytime soap genre with an examination into the dark corners of fantasy-based escapism. 

Over the last 60+ years, serialized melodramas have played a critical role in shaping the way we think about, consume, and are affected by media. The daytime televised soap opera has without a doubt laid the fundamental architecture for contemporary dopamine capitalists’ dreams of harvested, monetized attention…and River of Dreams explores the psychological effects on the mind of its viewers. Whereas In Every Dream Home a Heartache spotlighted the external omnipresence of daytime tv’s persistent broadcasts, River of Dreams examines the interior havoc and mental unbalance sewn by obsessive viewership. The same waters that harvest and transport our buoyant dreams often funnel into nightmarish, tumultuous oceans… 

Once again, broadcast television samples by way of vintage, bit-crunched YouTube codecs form the source material here…all artfully inlaid and mosaicked to form tear-stained compositions of troubled romance gone astray.

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Romance & Dean Hurley - Eric Forrester

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"An inspiration from the magical world of Dark Souls"

violin - @blairtblairt
cover - @yndeavour

Forhtian (ft. Blair)

Kulowo Wawega - Tell me where to be (spontaneous)

Kilou "Clinky Breath" [ICO13] 

Bandcamp/streaming https:/song.link/clinkybreath 

"This project consists of songs from the last one or two years and describes the longing for warmth and at the same time feeling comfort in the melancholy of winter. Sunbeams melting away the snow and blades of grass appearing underneath, but you can hardly see anything through the glittering mist of your breath. It is freezing cold,"

Art cover by @arnoselle (instagram)

Clinky Breath

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Romance Relic (Jussi Hertz) is a Helsinki-based multi-disciplinary artist, sound designer and composer. Hertz’s work takes influences from experimental electronic music, modern classical music and ambient genre tropes. Their pieces of music have been previously released via labels such as Janushoved, DISPLAY and Eastern Nurseries. Within their musical practice, Hertz works with various mediums, ranging from field recordings and re-appropriated and sampled sound excerpts to synthesized melodic passages and vocal verses. Within and throughout their work, Hertz explores the intersections of emotional temporality and musical tropes’ relation to sensibility and pop-inclined romanticism. In their practice Hertz tries to stretch the boundaries of fragmentary storytelling, and its narrative capabilities and dispositions.
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soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/romancerelic

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recorded/produced june 2023 in minneapolis usa and yokohama japan

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