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Drip Drip Drip is the debut collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Bartłomiej Kuźniak and transfeminine artist Adrienne Teicher. The work resides in a landscape of psychedelic post-techno, interwoven with whispered, sung and shouted meditations on what it means to have a body, and the strange ghosts that linger behind experiences of love and desire.

“Both & Neither” is a fever dream, in which the swarm of forces that animate the “I” of self-identify manifest as deities in the rattle of Adrienne’s voice. The composition’s strong rhythmic foundations intersect with an undercurrent of extended harmonies brought to life by Kuzniak’s saxophone and an array of atonal synthesizers.

“Ocean” submerges the listener in a world of fluid, undulating textures and subtle, pulsating rhythms. Ostensibly a love song, the text refuses reassuring cliches, seeing love – like the ocean – as a space which resists human territorialisations.

The sombre, haunting melodies of “My Body Is Not My Own” unearth the paradoxes at the root of bodily autonomy and the tension between self and society that rupture the ostensible freedom to “be who you want to be” in fading liberal capitalist democracies of the West.

Finally, the cascading, hyper-caffeinated polyrhythms of ‘Hope’ transmit a sense of everyday life accelerated beyond human limits, of bodies burning too brightly and then burning out. Yet beneath this choppy surface, there is a glimmer of joy and serenity. Is it our salvation? Or simply the illusion which keeps us in the game?

The mesmerising video for the track was created by the visual artist Mariusz Knysak. For this project he designed and built a fully analogue reactor that uses light and sound exchanging their energy through water. The entire installation was created solely by recycling used electronic devices, which is the Knysak’s hallmark.

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