Featuring:

Robert Hatry - Guitar
Will Honaker- Keys

When our senses provide us experiences that we do not share with others in our group there arises a key to a deeper understanding of our world and our minds. These pathways are often scorned and always misunderstood but if you cut through to the heart of the experience you find certain truths within hallucination.

Halucination

The Light Shines Through You

To Pray

Smoke

Exit Strategy

Limonata

In collaboration with the Surface Tension collective, Infinite Beat Ambient created an after hours audio, visual and olfactory experience. Live performances by Bleie, Brooke Keller (odi me, Gayphextwin) and Roche. 

This live ambient DJ set was inspired by my favorite San Francisco artist and Infinite Beat collaborator, Paul Clipson, which featured a  few selections of music that he shared with me and some music that I had the honor of sharing with him. It was meant to play like a film soundtrack.

This mix is dedicated to Paul Clipson, his family and our local film/arts/music community in San Francisco.

Additional thanks to Surface Tension and AON for mastering.

For Paul

Waiting For (Feat. Jamila Woods)

“Frida Kahlo,” the new single from Iska Dhaaf, is a nuanced piece of storytelling. The song's narrator, Nathan Quiroga, tenderly weaves his own disappointment and feelings of isolation with the famous struggles of two iconic painters (Kahlo & Van Gogh). A gorgeous piece of indie folk, each verse lyrically paints these artists inside of their own work. The song's expressively picked guitar and gentle piano glow beneath Benjamin Verdoes’s flowering vocal harmonies. Iska Dhaaf have taken a compelling and unique approach to songwriting that extends a hand of comfort to their fellow lonely souls.

Frida Kahlo

"Crying in Your Sleep," the newest release from Iska Dhaaf, tells a multilayered story that revolves around two separate dialogs: one from the waking world and one from the dimension of dreams. The production of the song has an ethereal delicacy that cycles around a driving bass line and clusters of electronic percussion. Beautiful pads and arpeggiations flutter and dance around the steady beat and heavenly keys. The main melody drifts in and out as a sweet lullaby as Benjamin Verdoes's gentle voice lilts and sways. Melancholy and sincere, "Crying in Your Sleep," flows through the currents of a lucid dream.

Crying In Your Sleep

"And this I dreamt, and this I dream,
And some time this I will dream again,
And all will be repeated, all be re-embodied,
You will dream everything I have seen in dream.

To one side from ourselves, to one side from the world
Wave follows wave to break on the shore,
On each wave is a star, a person, a bird,
Dreams, reality, death - on wave after wave.

No need for a date: I was, I am, and I will be,
Life is a wonder of wonders, and to wonder
I dedicate myself, on my knees, like an orphan,
Alone – among mirrors – fenced in by reflections:
Cities and seas, iridescent, intensified.
A mother in tears takes a child on her lap."

-Arseny Tarkovsky, "And this I dreamt, and this I dream." 1974.

A short mix created for Small Press Traffic, a Bay Area-based arts organization that supports local poets, archives small press histories, & cultivates conversations between people in the arts. The original broadcast on December 18th, 2020 was a collaboration with visual artist, Subset, to accompany live readings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith.

Topazu & Subset video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICyk9CdpTg

Small Press Traffic: 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCsmI4J5xYtbARdGnPrT5YnA

Subset:

http://vimeo.com/subset

S*an D. Henry-Smith:

https://seanhenrysmith.com/Portfolio

Noah Ross:

https://www.baestjournal.com/issue-5-list

A poet must stir the soul

These are my unfinished sketches that may or may not materialize. They are comprised of a mix of my field recordings and live instrumentation layered, altered and abstracted digitally.

Halucination

phantom touching