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ARTIST
DOC SLEEP
TITLE
Birds (in my mind anyway)
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
TARTELET
CATALOG #
TARC 002LP
TARC 002LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/17/2023
Tartelet present the debut album from
Doc Sleep
-- ten tracks of exquisitely rendered melodies and rhythms shaped with grit and beauty in equal measure.
Birds (in my mind anyway)
is a widescreen vision of electronica as a medium to express your personal situation and respond to your environment -- a rave adjacent art form free from the perceived rules of the dancefloor. To date,
Melissa Maristuen
, known as Doc Sleep, has established herself in the context of the club -- first engaging with the culture in San Francisco before moving to Berlin. She helps run the Room 4 Resistance party, DJs on Refuge Worldwide, co-owns the Jacktone label and has released on Detour, Dark Entries, and her own label. But in making
Birds (in my mind anyway)
she set herself an ultimatum. "At the time of recording this album, my life, all my routines and priorities had to change -- music was no exception. I decided if I couldn't be happy making an album free of the dancefloor, I was finally going to be done with music. Instead, I found a musical voice free of tempo and textural restriction. Eventually, I had a sound, and once I had the sound, the album came pretty quickly. It was a very different process writing music for no one -- except myself." If the impression given is one of a consistent style across the album, think again. Doc Sleep moves freely between tempos and themes, even if there are some recurring qualities binding the music together. She weaves fluttering arps with poise, lending them an almost choral quality which gives the album a very human touch. But they're equally emotionally ambiguous or pockmarked with sonic interference -- reflections of the collisions and conflicts that typify the human experience. Every inch of the album is a personal touch -- the title was pulled from Doc Sleep's mother's response to hearing the album, while her friend
Kiernan Laveaux
offered a beautiful text which appears on the back. Those closest to her all fed into the artwork process, which captures the curious dichotomy between urban brutalism and botanical finery often found in the parks of Berlin -- a vital place of respite when she was making the album. Features
Glenn Astro
and
M Marie
. For fans of:
Ciel
,
rRoxymore
,
Skee Mask
, Glenn Astro. Edition of 300.
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