Desvelada and Sprælle - escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird

Existence Réarrangée

Kicking off a new season on @ma3azef airwaves, fresh discoveries, all-time favourites and unreleased tunes. 

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Actress - VVY (feat. Sampha)
Violet - Found IV
E+E ft Why Be & Godlink - Diamonds (Remix)
Airport - Dress Lake (from The Miracle Of Trauma)
Tricky - Silly Games feat Tirzah x Why Be - Heroin Hat (Sprælle edit)
Sprælle – Unreleased
Duval Timothy – U
oxhy – Guitars x Dave Quam - Snare Screams (Sprælle edit)
Huerco S. – Quivira
IVVVO - If Not Now
Anduin – Sleeper
Actress - Angels Pharmacy (feat. Zsela)
ISSHU – We
Space Afrika - yyyyyy2222
Nudo – Acaballo
In My Talons - Cant Sleep Without You
Andras 2020 – Velocity
Nkisi - Blackbox (BLK SPLLS)
nthng - 50 Flower
Iceboy Violet - On A Mountain Gunnin (Gunna)
Sprælle – Unreleased

Ma3azef - Rearranged Existence w/Sprælle [09.17.21]

@djdesvelada x Sprælle special mix for Ma3azef

Ma3azef - Rearranged Existence w/ Desvelada & Sprælle [11.19.21]

Rearranged Existence [Ma3azef March 22]

Rework of instrumental from  experimental cellist, Slow Cooked for his monthly radio show: Ambient Affairs

Original show here: www.mixcloud.com/1020Radio/ambient-affairs-1st-march-2022/

Vengeful Smite [Ambient Affairs Rework]

first played on Ma3azef in May 2022
edit on the artwork by @prylene

REARRANGED EXISTENCES RADIO [ep. 1]

Recorded between 2020 & 2022 in Montreal, Paris & New York
With vocals by Jade Halloin & Desvelada
Artwork by Anthony Flores

Acro Vies

summer 2022 nyc, blessed
artwork by Ale (@djdesvelada)

e-papillon

Vocals by Desvelada ( @djdesvelada ) 
From 2020, a special one to us

Vacilar

feu follet for birds & guitar

caution tale [trickysimply EDIT]

ombre rêvée

cassette oubliée

common as dirt

grace

hirviendo las hierbas

river street

lentement

a-cross

While its title at first calls to mind a Jodorowskian kitchen sink psychedelia, Desvelada and Sprælle’s debut EP as a duo ’escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird’ veers tonally closer to the twilight realm of Béla Tarr. The work summons images. Empty windswept expanses, conversational vocals that seem to phase in and out of focus, spare synth bass and mournful drones create for us a hinterland of abandoned narratives, of characters unsure or unaware or unwilling to see that they are ghosts, but carrying with them a fatigued and defiant air of hope throughout.

Hailing from central Texas and west of France, Desvelada and Sprælle met in student living spaces while studying in Austin, Texas. The pair’s deep bond and friendship soon came to resemble something more like a romance, they began to produce pieces of music together, honing their skills in the small but burbling scene of Texas experimental live music. Sprælle’s art rock beginnings and distended guitar and production work folded lovingly into Desvelada’s choir upbringing and live vocal processing to create a sound and feeling all their own. Filmic and distant, like an aerial view of a springtime meadow timelessly marooned in suburbia instead of prehistory.

Taking cues from artists as varied as Tricky to David Berman, Ryuichi Sakamoto to Jorge Luis Borges, Sprælle and Desvelada sus from their toolkit a reserved storybook that speaks rather than sings. Percussive elements shuffle along like creekwater driftwood, loons in the reedbeds, all chirps and croaks; the arroyo at dusk. ‘escaping from the body of a sleeping hummingbird’ is a hushed purge of woodland noir, of interior poetry, watching the fog slowly overcome what’s left of the evening light, begging the spirit to speak.

Tracklist:
1. épié
2. linde cruel
3. turn to talk
4. venus purs
5. tree up ahead


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