Illadelph Halfdeath Under A Nautical Twilight

DF and are grateful to all who anticipate and continue to signal boost this album.  SUPPORT THIS INDIE ART! CHASA KILLA TAPE!!!
Lyrics written and performed by Savan DePaul. Sampled vocals on tracks 4 and 5 from Kaylee Pointkowski and Madison Christy, provided thanks to Jennifer Cella. Beats produced and mixed by digital fishh. Album mixed by Savan DePaul and digital fishh. Mastered by Savan DePaul. Artwork by Savan DePaul. Photography by Molly Mobley. Tapes dubbed and assembled by Cunabear. Dedicated to Sasha Pelullo.

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CHASA KILLA TAPE!!! (by Savan DePaul & digital fishh)

this spring i embark on a daunting yet exciting journey - a solo tour that includes stays in unfamiliar amerikan territory, guided by the watchful eyes and assuring hands of the three wise lesbians.

during that period of time i will drop a four-song extended play called...
🅦︎🅘︎🅕︎🅔︎🅕︎*🅒︎🅚︎🅔︎🅡︎ 🅤︎🅛︎🅣︎🅡︎🅐︎

something playful for the road. something for the perpetual thirds and the willing participants in multiperson mayhem.

luv u <3!
-ishtar

all production, writing, performing, and engineering by Ishtar Sr. (unless where marked)
mixed and mastered by Ishtar Sr.
artwork by Ishtar Sr.

1) kill the couple in my head!

2) wifef*cker ultra
additional production by Hitachii and Rafael de Toledo Pedroso

3) think twice...
written by Ishtar Sr. and Sophie Goulding
performed and engineered by Ishtar Sr.
production by Hitachii and Ishtar Sr.
additional bass synth programming by _siillk and Myst Mach
kora by Qil Jones
violin by Zero Jones
additional interview vocals by Daph Bonner

4) covetra, the adulteress
synthesizer and guitar by Infinite Bliss

BUY ON BANDCAMP

wifef*cker ultra

The sister tape to Ishtar Sr.'s debut album Divine Ecdysis. Originally released via Grimalkin Records on November 18, 2022.
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tracklist
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Johnson’s Plight Addendum
Freedom in G Minor!
Adolescence
Perfect, With Worth - Kitty Got Claws Rework
Let It Be Known!
My Sunshine
Codes   [produced by House Fire]
Ninshubur
Life in Times of War   [featuring Starkid Asteri]
Lovely Bones for a Raindance (Discotheque IV)
In Your Space
Rot
Goddess Turbine
Jazz House Tryst
Boy Be Tryin’ Me
SENIOR! (Ode to the Harlot)
Goddess Discotheque (Original Mix)
First Reprise   [featuring CODEi]
Cosmophilia
p4rt p4ths 4 da 🅐TRIARCH!
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If the Ishtar Sr. persona, and Divine Ecdysis in particular, birthed itself out of the need to embrace my identity and experiences in their totality, then Ecdysis Incomplete is my victory lap in that queer skin. Assembled from the polished material that did not make the cut of the original studio album, this mixtape bears all my futurist slut pop markings with an even gnarlier bite. From the insurrectionist nods in “Freedom in G Minor!” to the wide array of hard-hitting production styles to the bold faced no-masters anthem “p4rt p4ths 4 da (A)TRIARCH!” that closes the record, Ecdysis Incomplete brings pinches of aggressiveness and direct commentary to the Ishtar Sr. recipe. 
I could go on and on with acknowledgements. But I’d like to keep it simple... Thank you to everyone who made the original Divine Ecdysis project possible: from the myriad of featured contributors to the collective members who helped me package and release it. Thanks to my peeps, lovers, and chosen family. Without it this mixtape does not exist.
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all songs produced by Ishtar Sr. unless where noted
Ishtar Sr. - writing, vocals, synthesizer, kalimba, production, mixing, mastering, artwork
House Fire - production on track 7
Starkid Asteri - featured vocals on track 9
CODEi - featured vocals on track 18
Kitty Got Claws - remixed/edited vocals on track 4 (sourced from a song previously released then erased) (Kitty has requested on features before that she not be credited on streaming services outside of Bandcamp, and I intend to keep that so)
CANTANKEROUS PANDA - album art character design

Ecdysis Incomplete

Ishtar Sr. - Ecdysis Incomplete (Full Mixtape)

illadelph halfdeath under a nautical twilight

Twilight Traveler

Bust Back!

Mr. Burns [feat. Ishtar Sr.]

Glitter Galaxy

FOMO On The Unmarked Grave

Love On The Way

Oxytocin Mapquest

Lord Have Mercy - Wicked Ways

April 5, 2024

analog techno / deconstructed club / grime /wonky

Ishtar Sr. - ANALOG NIGHTMIX (4-5-2024)

Bingo!

Philadollphia

Chasa Killa!

Puppy / Duppy

Raw Bica (The Loot Shuffle)

Bad Woman!

Bonus Round! (in B minor)

Philadollphia II

This Heaven Is For Us!

grief is the name of the game.

how do i let the soft girl in me spill out onto the concrete lining my post-industrial home of so called "Philadelphia"?

how do i exercise the systemic demons that plague my psyche?

how do i mourn my relatives? my lovers? my fallen homies? my loved ones on the brink of destruction? my fellow colonized people, taken from this loving blue marble by the most evil of forces?

how do i wrestle with the contradictions?

i guess Asphalt Savannahs is an attempt to answer these questions.

enjoy.
-AS / SQD / Ish
credits
released December 27, 2024

Asphalt Savannahs - noise electronics, synths, drum programming, kalimba, vocals, fx, mixing, mastering, artwork
Rafael de Toledo Pedroso - co-production (1, 19)
Qil Jones - kalimba, mbira, vocals, fx pedals, and kora (9, 19)
AGYN - electric guitar and synth (3)
toadette's knife - electric guitar (3)
Ishtar Sr. - remixer (16), vocals (19)
Zero Jones - fiddle and electric violin (19)
Dani Lee Pearce - bass guitar (19)
(is) - noise electronics (19)

all vocalists wrote or improvised their own lyrics.

some random cop took the picture of me i used for the album's artwork.

"STAYING BEHOLDEN TO ETERNAL JAZZ AND BLACKENED SUPERNOVAE OF REVENGE​!​!​!​": Circumstantial Evidence Against The Prism Bender's Righteous Struggle

BANDCAMP

Asphalt Savannahs - "STAYING BEHOLDEN TO ETERNAL JAZZ AND BLACKENED SUPERNOVAE OF REVENGE​!​!​!​"...

this spring i embark on a daunting yet exciting journey - a solo tour that includes stays in unfamiliar amerikan territory, guided by the watchful eyes and assuring hands of the three wise lesbians.

during that period of time i will drop a four-song extended play called...
🅦︎🅘︎🅕︎🅔︎🅕︎*🅒︎🅚︎🅔︎🅡︎ 🅤︎🅛︎🅣︎🅡︎🅐︎

something playful for the road. something for the perpetual thirds and the willing participants in multiperson mayhem.

luv u <3!
-ishtar

written by Ishtar Sr. and Sophie Goulding
performed and engineered by Ishtar Sr.
production by Hitachii and Ishtar Sr.
additional bass synth programming by _siillk and Myst Mach
kora by Qil Jones
violin by Zero Jones
additional interview vocals by Daph Bonner

think twice...

this spring i embark on a daunting yet exciting journey - a solo tour that includes stays in unfamiliar amerikan territory, guided by the watchful eyes and assuring hands of the three wise lesbians.

during that period of time i will drop a four-song extended play called...
🅦︎🅘︎🅕︎🅔︎🅕︎*🅒︎🅚︎🅔︎🅡︎ 🅤︎🅛︎🅣︎🅡︎🅐︎

something playful for the road. something for the perpetual thirds and the willing participants in multiperson mayhem.

luv u <3!
-ishtar

all production, writing, performing, and engineering by Ishtar Sr. (unless where marked)
mixed and mastered by Ishtar Sr.
artwork by Ishtar Sr.

kill the couple in my head!

this spring i embark on a daunting yet exciting journey - a solo tour that includes stays in unfamiliar amerikan territory, guided by the watchful eyes and assuring hands of the three wise lesbians.

during that period of time i will drop a four-song extended play called...
🅦︎🅘︎🅕︎🅔︎🅕︎*🅒︎🅚︎🅔︎🅡︎ 🅤︎🅛︎🅣︎🅡︎🅐︎

something playful for the road. something for the perpetual thirds and the willing participants in multiperson mayhem.

luv u <3!
-ishtar

all production, writing, performing, and engineering by Ishtar Sr. (unless where marked)
mixed and mastered by Ishtar Sr.
artwork by Ishtar Sr.
additional production by Hitachii and Rafael de Toledo Pedroso

wifefucker ultra

this spring i embark on a daunting yet exciting journey - a solo tour that includes stays in unfamiliar amerikan territory, guided by the watchful eyes and assuring hands of the three wise lesbians.

during that period of time i will drop a four-song extended play called...
🅦︎🅘︎🅕︎🅔︎🅕︎*🅒︎🅚︎🅔︎🅡︎ 🅤︎🅛︎🅣︎🅡︎🅐︎

something playful for the road. something for the perpetual thirds and the willing participants in multiperson mayhem.

luv u <3!
-ishtar

all production, writing, performing, and engineering by Ishtar Sr. (unless where marked)
mixed and mastered by Ishtar Sr.
artwork by Ishtar Sr.
synthesizer and guitar by Infinite Bliss

covetra, the adulteress

Ishtar Sr. - TBOY WRESTLING (10/17/25)

Bonus track from "corrosive: the ACID RAIN beats"!

Download on Bandcamp

Scatterbrain! (Instrumental)

.quaint.

That new new new new!  "Everything Is Fine Until It's Not," the latest mini-release from Savan DePaul, is a varied little EP packed with 3 funky lo-fi beats from your resident Afrofuturist artist.  From the vocal skits and the bounce of the title track to the Mulatu Astatke-sampling song bearing his name, this EP puts a lot of personality in a diminutive package.

Download it for free here!
https://savandepaul.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-fine-until-its-not

Cop it here

Mulatu

American/Australian audio snippets and samples from the USSR, Spain, Mali, and Iran come together in one smacking beat.  Anti-imperialist shit.
Samples used:
"Cantos Pisanos" by Pablo A. Gimenez
"Better Late than Never" from Evening With Comrades
"Ciro" by L'Orchestre "Le National Badema" feat. Kasse Mady Diabaté
"Mastom mastom" by Pari Zangeneh
"Kalbam ba dudast" by Khurmo Shirinova

Brood IX, Group 012

Dead Bugs, Dying Empires

Acid Rain II

falling asleep on the shores of kyoshi island

rhythms from realms out of reach.

(she/they)

Contact/booking: blacksumer@zohomail.com

Savan DePaul // Ishtar Sr. // Asphalt Savannahs

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