Out July 4th on Lumière Noire Records.

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Sapphist Eye’s initiation into Paris’ queer party scene was the catalyst for her now budding career in electronic dance. After gaining the attention of CHLOE in 2023, her track ‘Exist Everywhere’ was selected to feature on lesbian collective Barbi(e)turix’s 2nd compilation. After this breakthrough, fellow French imprint Les Disques du Lobby came calling before arriving on Lumière Noire with her debut solo EP, ‘Another Side’ in 2024.

As an advocate for the wonderfully contemporary beats that flow through the Parisian underground, she’s engaged in feminist and queer causes, and is part of L’Agence du Lobby, a booking agency who represent queer, drag and collectives in music.

Tightly interlaced but still curiously vast, Sapphist Eye opens her woozy, solo EP ‘Mutate+Back’ with ‘Hanging In A Path’. Somewhat perplexing but expertly executed, its unconventional approach is fully realised with the arrival of a pitched up vocal sample that puffs in time to a gurgling crescendo of coarsely chopped effects comprising a series of chimes, hisses and hums.

‘Hanging In A Path’ (Dub Version) wobbles into the mix, it does so in unassuming carefree fashion. The polished edge that gives the original its glossy finish has been replaced by a strung-out chorus of sonics that tumble and fumble aside flanging, piercing overtones and distorted vocal components.

A robotic ambience fuels the up-tempo ‘Searching’. Pulsing from the beginning with an assertive clap and kick combo, a wave of blurry overtones soon mists over what went before, adding an abstract edge to its house foundations, making for a slight deviation from the krauthouse stylings which largely make up the EP.

‘Whole Anger’ is a special track as the chants used were recorded during a women’s rights protest on the 8th March in Paris. The track is a cavernous blend of percussive elements bang aside cannons of reverberation and a rush of voices. Before long, the melody breaks to unveil a sleek electro pattern that fuses with this wall of chattering to bring about the latter stages of the track.

Drawing by Louis Monot
Artwork by Dune Lunel Studio
Composed, performed and produced by Sapphist Eye
Mixed by Blanche Kheira Toplet at CTRL ROOM Studio
Mastered by Benjamin Joubert

LN059 - Sapphist Eye - Mutate+Back (EP)

Sapphist Eye - Searching

Sapphist Eye - Whole Anger

Sapphist Eye - Hanging In A Path (Club Version)

Sapphist Eye - Hanging In A Path (Dub Version)

Based in Paris, Lumière Noire is a creative entity founded by Chloé pitched somewhere between a record label and a club night.

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