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Dasha Rush debuts on Raster-Noton

March 24th, 2015  |  Published in News

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ARTIST(S): Dasha Rush
TITLE: Sleepstep – Sonar Poems for My Sleepless Friends
LABEL: Raster-Noton
CAT n°: r-n158
FORMAT: CD // Digital // 2×12” // 2×12” Special Edition
RELEASE DATE: CD // Digital: March 2nd 2015, Vinyl: May 11th 2015

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.

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The musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. 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, however 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.

CD // Digital tracklist

01 / Intro – Space Privat 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

Vinyl // Special Edition Vinyl tracklist

A1 / Dance With Edgar Poe
A2 / Scratching Your Surface (Revisited) A3 / Time Whispers And Albert
B1 / Sail Away To Her
B2 / Life Time Poem
B3 / Lucy In The Sky, Lost Diamonds B4 / Outer Space
C1 / Abandoned Beauties And Beasts C2 / Antares
D1 / 100 Hearts
D2 / Micro Universe

The special edition is limited to 100 copies and consists of 2 x 12″ 180 gram heavy vinyl, the CD and an artprint. It will be packed in a special handmade cardboard slipcase.

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