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.

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.