Alien Tung, by Sci Fi Sol

Alien Tung

by Sci Fi Sol

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1.	Aversion II 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Want me to twist myself Into suffocation Want me to confine My desire Make my body better Make my body better For you All for you Tell me What did I give away What did I lose What did I give away In the process In the trade off For survival Boring plain white predictable Rebel against a cookie-cutter Aversion to tradition Or what gets lost She’s anti-everything You can call her Super Witch Turning the tables, a radical Living up to her name To prove a point she says Cos after it all The world is of her body, baby We’re in her hands Aversion, Aversion I can see their Aversion
2.	Bite the Hand That Feeds 04:27	lyrics	buy track
By violence he held her hand Some things I just can’t understand Bite the hand that feeds you Bite the hand that feeds Do I have your permission? Bite the hand that feeds you Bite the hand that feeds
3.	Just a Game 06:06	lyrics	buy track
Just a game I try to hold on Keep going around Keep going around Just a game Is this just a game?
4.	Dreamzone 05:01	lyrics	buy track
Do you have to wait Do you have to hide These dreams inside I wanna disappear with you Disappear with you Another time Another place Another memory The shape of you To fall in love While still awake What is this life About anyway Behind closed eyes You’re mine You’re mine You’re mine Behind closed eyes You’re mine
5.	Baby, I'm an Animal 05:38	lyrics	buy track
When the dark side Of the moon Turns away Baby I’m an animal Too strange to love To be forgotten soon When the moon Turns to dark When the dark side Of the moon Turns away Watched my death In slow motion Lived in a poison mind I was waiting for flowers To bloom Waiting for flowers To bloom Baby, I’m an animal Too strange to love To be forgotten soon When the moon Turns to dark When the dark side Of the moon Turns away
6.	techno, electronica, female electronic composer, darkwave, industrial, female vocal electronica - NIN 05:14	lyrics	buy track
Tried to kill me I just wouldn’t die This place can’t contain me It’s sure gonna try I don’t need this I can see the truth Let it fall away Away from you They said Silence your wisdom, girl Must feel like dying They said Just be a good girl You’ll get along fine You’ll get along fine But the look in your eye Cuts so deep Yeah the look in your eye Cuts so deep The look in your eye Cuts so deep
7.	The Veil Slipped Off 05:29	lyrics	buy track
They couldn’t stand Her beauty Tore them up Inside They wanna banish Her to flames Before she shot them down With purity The veil slipped off The wind was wild Skin hungry for their eyes They wanna banish Her to flames Before she shot them down With purity Power in vain Sent them to their Eternal Graves The veil slipped off The wind was wild (Tore them up Tore them up inside) The veil slipped off The wind was wild Skin hungry for their eyes
8.	Hypnosis Black Ocean 06:39	lyrics	buy track
Long form hypnosis See with me Be with me Fall deeper Further back deeper Into time Where the stars twinkle In the night sky Slowly humming Into the window of time Where you wanna be Fall into the third eye On three Drifting drifting drifting As I count back from five Breathe blue Aquamarine splendor Deeper into time The night sky In your mind, the sound The endless light The ideal idea resides in Your subconscious programming A cryptograph you want to remember One, induction complete Begin

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“Do you have to hide / these dreams inside? / I wanna disappear with you,” intones Christina Broussard (aka SciFiSol) on one of Alien Tung‘s spacier tracks, the aptly-named “Dreamzone.” The heavy effects on her whispered vocals combine with distant, echoing percussion and atmospheric synths to provide a perfect soundtrack for disappearances. The album inhabits its own “Dreamzone” of sorts: one where pulsing techno gives way to ambient interludes; where thumping bass underpins lyrics that espouse a fierce, subversive feminism.

Nowhere is this last point more evident than on the album’s opener “Aversion II” which we’re excited to premiere here on Igloo. Over a dark synth-pop groove, Broussard sings “Rebel against a cookie-cutter / Aversion to tradition / Or what gets lost / She’s anti-everything”. A gritty, distorted synth line kicks in with that last lyric, propelling the track through its back half.

Next up is “Bite The Hand That Feeds,” anchored around a driving four-on-the-floor kick and repeated lyrical invocations of the title and the ominous, enticing question: “Do I have your permission?” Broussard uses her own voice here almost as sample-based techno artists would use a found snippet of a forgotten song. Via email, she explains: “I do tend to start with lyrics that I have translated from my poetry. And then I adjust them to fit the architecture of the song itself as it develops and unfolds, perhaps repeating sections here and there for more emphasis…. I am trying to move the written word off the page and breathe alternate life into it with the medium of sound.“

“Just a Game” and “NIN” exemplify the hardware-centric approach SciFiSol has evolved on this album. Live performances over the last several years, both solo and as one half of the more dance-oriented Camino Acid duo, refined a taste for experimentation and a meditative flow-state of music making. In both tracks, there’s a core of evolving synth textures and beats rooted in techno. And over the top flows Broussard’s voice, swirled through effects and moving from a whisper to a howl. Tweaking those effects during recording brought some of the happy accidents from a live show to the album. This process, she says, “allows for interesting textures and effected word play to unfold where it may not have if I were just working on the computer. I think this is because I am in a different headspace when not looking at a computer screen.”

“I do tend to start with lyrics that I have translated from my poetry. And then I adjust them to fit the architecture of the song itself as it develops and unfolds, perhaps repeating sections here and there for more emphasis…. I am trying to move the written word off the page and breathe alternate life into it with the medium of sound.” ~Christina Broussard

Conceptually, there’s a through-line connecting the tracks on Alien Tung that reveals itself over repeated listens. Broussard writes, “The theme of the songs revolve around the importance of developing a new language in which to communicate with each other, if we are to survive in the Universe.” The “alien tongue” of the title, then, represents the difficulty of communicating with the Other, anyone outside ourselves, even those closest to us. When these breakdowns happen, we operate from, as she puts it, “the principles of fear and lack rather than insight and gratitude.” Negative consequences manifest, from disconnection to ennui to hatred.

“Veil Slipped Off” makes these consequences explicit: “They couldn’t stand / her beauty / Tore them up inside / They wanna banish her to flames.” Harsh static beats and a wild, bleeped arpeggiation give way to softer chords halfway through, perhaps giving a measure of hope in opposition to the nihilistic opening: “The veil slipped off / The wind was wild / Skin hungry for their eyes.” The next track, “Baby I’m An Animal,” continues the theme with a more carnal, sensuous bent: a slinky techno thump anchors Broussard’s breathy warning: “Too strange to love / to be forgotten soon.“

The album’s final track “Hypnosis Black Ocean,” as the name suggests, is more of a guided meditation than a song per se. Dark ambient sound design and a suggestion to “Fall into the third eye / on three” entice the listener into a liminal space between sleep and waking, where the possibilities hinted at through the album—the positive, progressive future in opposition to the alien Other, and perhaps the “Dreamzone” itself—becomes accessible. ~igloomag

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released October 31, 2020

Written and Produced by: Christina Broussard
Mastered by: Jeremy Goldstein

A Cooperation of Detroit Underground and Christoph Grünberger´s new book "Analog Algorithm – Source-Related Grid Systems". Selected Graphics are used as Cover-Designs of this exclusive edition of DU™Tapes. www.analog-algorithm.com

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Adorned with a collage of soundscapes that tell a story of mystery and dreams, the music of Sci Fi Sol Music (Christina Broussard) is a eclectic form of electronica that fuses a love of the obscure with the desire to create innovative and experimental music--a style fueled by complex rhythms and textures while floating on deep ambient overtones. ... more

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