out now: Dasha Rush – Sleepstep [Raster-Noton]

Artist:
Dasha Rush

Title:
Sleepstep – Sonar Poems For my Sleepless Friends

Label:
Raster-Noton

Cat#:
R-N 158

Release Date:
March 2015

Format:
CD, vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
Intro – Space Privet For Cosmonauts

02.
Dance With Edgar Poe

03.
Time Whispers And Albert

04.
Scratching Your Surface
(Revisited)

05.
Sleep Ballade

06.
Antares

07.
Abandoned Beauties And Beasts

08.
Lumiere Avant Midi

09.
Sail Away To Her

10.
Lucy In The Sky, Lost Diamonds

11.
Fog, Dogma And Bread

12.
A Minute After The War

13.
Life Time Poem

14.
100 Hearts

15.
Micro Universe

16.
Outer Space

Press Info:
“sleepstep” is the first collaboration between raster-noton and dasha rush. the record‘s subtitle “sonar poems for my sleepless friends” describes its underlying concept – “sleepstep” is a trip through electronically alienated micro-compositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere.

the stations of this journey are striving for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states – death, life, birth, grief, desire. the titles often appear to be raw sketches, fugitive, surreal short stories that rather want to break open than execute.

the musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. though electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. and though clichés are not dreaded, “sleepstep”, as a result, stays away from being cliché. the sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. a musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

dasha rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. here on “sleepstep”, she celebrates her alter ego. the cd version comes with a 32-pages booklet that also shows her photographic interest and includes the aforementioned poems written by her. the album‘s vinyl version will follow very soon.

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