FUCKING AND DREAMING

DEBUT ALBUM
RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 12, 2023

1. SISTERS/ GHOSTS
2. OPEN
3. LOSE IT ALL
4. KINGDOM
5. FIRST DAY
6. ADDICTS (FOR HANIEH)
7. GONE FOR A WHILE
8. LOVE BIRTHED BY DISSENT
9. DREAMS


WITH HER BOLDLY TRANSCENDENT DEBUT ALBUM FUCKING AND DREAMING, COLOGNE-BASED SONGWRITER, PRODUCER, PERFORMER AND INSTRUMENTALIST TRACE DEMANDS A DEVASTATING, RADICAL FORM OF INTIMACY. THE COMPLEX TRANS FEMME PERSPECTIVE AT THE ALBUM’S CORE MOVES THROUGH THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF LOVE AND SEX, GRIEF, RAGE, THE FUCKING OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES, WHILE FUCKING WITH GENDER IDENTITIES, KNOWN STRUCTURES, PAST LIVES, AND THE WORLD WE CO-EXIST IN.

FOLLOWING THE SEARING QUEER HEARTBREAK OF HER DEBUT EP YOU KNOCKED ON MY DOOR TO SEE THE STARS, TRACE UNFOLDS DIFFERENT REALITIES AND CONSORTS WITH GHOSTS OF THE FUTURE, THE PAST AND UNKNOWN EXISTENCES ON FUCKING AND DREAMING. COMPOSED PRIMARILY DURING THE LATE NIGHTS AND EARLY MORNINGS OF FRACTURED SLEEP STATES, THE NINE TRACKS OF FUCKING AND DREAMING ARE AN IMPROVISATIONAL ODYSSEY THAT TRANSMUTE THE BUILDING AND REBUILDING OF A TRANS FEMME EXPERIENCE.

THE OPENING TRACK, “SISTERS/GHOSTS,” INTRODUCES HER TRANS FEMME SONIC WORLD - REPLETE WITH THE THREAT OF TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE - AND CALLS UP THE GHOSTS OF TRANSCESTORS TO HOLD HANDS ACROSS REALITIES AND TIMELINES. ELSEWHERE, SHORT AND UTTERLY SWEET MOMENTS ARISE, SUCH AS “KINGDOM,” A MEDITATION THAT SERENADES TRANS SIBLINGS WHO HAVE DISAPPEARED IN THE CRACKS OF HISTORY. THE ALBUM’S UPLIFTING POP CONCLUSION, “THE DREAMS,” IS A DECLARATION OF LOVE TO CLOSE FRIENDS, QUEER TRANS FOLKS AND THE PEOPLE THEY LOVE, ON THE VERGE OF THE END OF THE WORLD.

HAVING PREVIOUSLY OBSCURED HER OWN IDENTITY AND FRACTURED HER SENSE OF SELF, TRACE NOW ENTERS A STATE OF BARENESS, EMBRACING THE GUITAR AND ELECTRONIC TOOLS SHE PREVIOUSLY CAST AS MASCULINE EXPRESSIONS, REFRAMING BOTH, LOVINGLY, AS ORGANIC EXTENSIONS OF HER TRANS FEMME BODILY EXPERIENCE. TRACE DISSOLVES INSIDE THE MUSIC, ENDING THE LYRICS THROUGH IMPROVISATIONAL PROCESSES THAT RESIDE WITHIN THE ARRANGEMENTS OF TRANSGRESSIVE POP, DISTORTED GUITARS, DEEP GUTTURAL VOCALS AND SHARDS OF ELECTRONIC GLITCHERY.

SUPPORTED BY INITIATIVE MUSIK GGMBH WITH PROJECT FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER FOR CULTURE AND MEDIA.