Experimental songwriter Stefana Fratila has just announced her upcoming new record. I want to leave this Earth behind drops April 21 via Halocline Trance.
With each of the eight tracks named after a planet in our solar system, the album acts as the sonic extension of her research for Sononaut. This research resulted in eight VST plug-ins that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets for digital audio workspaces (DAWs).
"The album is conceptual, in that it centres on outer space exploration and my understanding of 'Crip futurity,'" Fratila said in a press release. "My vision is for the album to engage listeners in an exercise of imagining the sounds of interplanetary atmospheres — conditions which are inherently unlivable, unbreathable, converting all human body-minds into disabled-bodied-ness."
She continued:
Since I identify as Crip, or disabled, this idea deeply resonates with me. I am the first artist (a disabled producer/musician, no less) to have worked with NASA researchers on a sonic imagining of the solar system's atmospheres that incorporates real scientific data. If we are all 'disabled' in (or by) outer space, my music is concerned with propelling all listeners into space, leaving Earth behind them, through my music.
Alongside the album announcement, Fratila has also shared its ambient lead single "Earth." Listen to it below, where you can find the album's tracklisting.
I want to leave this Earth behind:
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
With each of the eight tracks named after a planet in our solar system, the album acts as the sonic extension of her research for Sononaut. This research resulted in eight VST plug-ins that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets for digital audio workspaces (DAWs).
"The album is conceptual, in that it centres on outer space exploration and my understanding of 'Crip futurity,'" Fratila said in a press release. "My vision is for the album to engage listeners in an exercise of imagining the sounds of interplanetary atmospheres — conditions which are inherently unlivable, unbreathable, converting all human body-minds into disabled-bodied-ness."
She continued:
Since I identify as Crip, or disabled, this idea deeply resonates with me. I am the first artist (a disabled producer/musician, no less) to have worked with NASA researchers on a sonic imagining of the solar system's atmospheres that incorporates real scientific data. If we are all 'disabled' in (or by) outer space, my music is concerned with propelling all listeners into space, leaving Earth behind them, through my music.
Alongside the album announcement, Fratila has also shared its ambient lead single "Earth." Listen to it below, where you can find the album's tracklisting.
I want to leave this Earth behind:
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
