HERBERT, by princess dasha

HERBERT

by princess dasha

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Cassette + Digital Album
Sampled from tape --> released on tape. As a political statement, princess dasha has violently defaced each cassette with nail polish and sharpie marker. A beautiful art and sound object. Embrace obsolescence! Find the future in the garbage of the past!

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	1.	A1 10:32
	2.	A2 01:16
	3.	A3 09:10
	4.	A4 03:50
	5.	B5 03:52
	6.	B6 11:56
	7.	B7 07:19
	8.	B8 01:40

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HERBERT is a companion album to a dance piece I worked on with Alexandra Elliott from 2019-2023, called CONDUCT. Alex was interested in the choreographic language of conducting, and her research quickly led her to Herbert von Karajan. CONDUCT’s sound design was created by sampling old cassette recordings conducted by Karajan, and then improvising using a combination of Euclidean sequencers and digital effects. HERBERT is a raw, cinematic, archival sliver of the material we generated.

Herbert von Karajan was a conductor. He was a member of the Nazi party, but said during his denazification trial he only joined to help his career. Goebbels called him blessed by god. After WW2 he received forty Grammy nominations. He was a husband, and he owned a custom Porsche.

I’ve always thought of Alex’s piece as essentially an exploration of the inner life of power. But if it is a portrait of facism’s bugs bunny fantasies and delusions, it is also the knife in the portrait, the cup that will collect whatever bleeds out, and the camera crew who films the whole thing. I hope that’s what the music is like too.

Sometimes beauty isn’t enough. During the Cold War, the CIA loved secretly funding exhibitions of abstract art because changing how the work was framed made it easy to turn into propaganda. Our conduct will be remembered. Sometimes you have to pick a side. So let me be perfectly clear. You will find me among the degenerates. This album is a warning and a dreaming, for myself and others. Think what we could do with all the police cruisers. I am a wife, and I like fast cars.

princess dasha
feb 20, 2023

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released April 5, 2023

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princess dasha Winnipeg, Manitoba

transsexual menace, makes what she wants.

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