Various Artists - Water Bodies - Tape

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

Release date: 27. June 2025

Curated by Ashlynn White & Madelyn Byrd
Poetic prompt by Lou Croff Blake
Mastered by Estle
Artwork by Dre Roelandt
Layout by Madelyn Byrd
Distributed by Rubadub
Published by Gravity Pleasure ❊ GP01 ❊ 2025
gravitypleasure.bandcamp.com

'We are all fish' was commissioned for Momentum + Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Nordic Culture Point and Momentum. Shortened for cassette, full version on digital only.

Special thank you to our community near and far, human & non-human, for the mutual care & support ❤︎

All proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Earth
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