Sleepstep - sonar poems for my sleepless friends - Dasha Rush

Dasha Rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. Sleepstep is a first collaboration with Raster-Noton. The album's subtitle “sonar poems for my sleepless friends” describes its underlying concept; Sleepstep is a trip through electronic 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. Tough electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. And though clichés are not dreaded, Sleepstep, as a result, stays away from being cliché. The sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. A musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept album – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

Tracklist

  -A /Dance With Edgar Poe/Scratching Your Surface (revisited)/Time Whispers And Albert/
  -B /Sail Away To Her/Life Time Poem/Lucy In The Sky, Lost Diamonds/Outer Space/
  -C /Abandoned Beauties And Beasts/Antares/
  -D /100 Hearts/Micro Universe/