Cassette
Gravity Pleasure's inaugural release, Water Bodies, is a rippling compilation of FLINTA* artists and collaborators that invites listeners into an aqueous paraworld.
Across 21 tracks, Water Bodies spans a post-genre miasma of ethereal mermaid music, cathartic flows, and glistening sibilants ~ each one an exquisite message-in-a-bottle of deep diving emotionality. Pulling from a wide-range of musical perspectives ~ field recording, lovesick ballads, shimmering downtempo, post-party comedown, and percolating ambient ~ the compilation contains multitudes yet maintains deep sentimental coherence. Like a wave crashing in slow motion, it sonifies possible ways of being, insisting on the porous, the interdependent, and the deep and unruly. Water Bodies reminds us that home is a body made of water, to which we all belong.
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Home is a body made of water.
Remember.
Close eyes.
Listen to drips; hear voices.
What do they tell you?
Make your body a grotto.
What does it hold?
Spider’s tapestry: flycatcher.
Roadmap: net of sinews.
Lost in night forest: seek breadcrumbs.
Remember?
Body is lighthouse: shine through cloud canopy.
Body is fish: wet is all you know.
Sink deep, fly high,
stretch your arpeggio from young to old.
Remember.
-Lou Croff Blake
