TRACE

TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com TRACE Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:15:05 +0000 https://traceisdreaming.com en Album Artwork https://traceisdreaming.com/Album-Artwork Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:45:16 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/Album-Artwork ‘T4TEARS’ OUT NOW [BANDCAMP] [STREAM] ‘T4THIRTEEN’ MUSIC VIDEO [WATCH VIDEO] Mobile Menu https://traceisdreaming.com/Mobile-Menu Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:45:20 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/Mobile-Menu ★HOME ★ABOUT RELEASES★YKOMDTSTS ★FUCKING AND DREAMING ★T4TEARS ★VIDEO ★DATES YKOMDTSTS https://traceisdreaming.com/YKOMDTSTS Fri, 19 May 2023 08:44:41 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/YKOMDTSTS YOU KNOCKED ON MY DOOR TO SEE THE STARSDEBUT EPRELEASED MARCH 17, 2023SAFE SPACE RECORDS COLOGNE 1. LOVE ME TIGHTER2. REVERSE KISS3. THIS IS ALL THE LOVE YOU KNOCKED ON MY DOOR TO SEE THE STARS IS AN INTIMATE AND VISCERAL EP BORN OUT OF HEALING AND IMPATIENCE, WHERE TRACE IS RADICALLY COMMITTED TO BUILDING HER TRANSGRESSIVE POP UNIVERSE. EVERY SONG IS A VICIOUS TRIP FULL OF UNEXPECTED TWISTS AND TURNS, EXPLODING GENRES, SHOOTING HOOKS, AND MELODIES GRACEFULLY HELD TOGETHER BY HER GLISTENING PRODUCTION AND BEAUTIFUL VOCALS AND WORDS. IN THREE FASTPACED SONGS, TRACE TELLS A COMPLEX QUEER LOVE STORY IN FAST-FORWARDS, REWINDS, PRAYERS, AND DREAMS. FOLLOW HER TO THE END OF THAT LOVE STORY, TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF BODILY AND MENTAL INTEGRITY INSIDE LOVE, INTIMACY, AND ATTACHMENT. THE AUDIENCE CAN FEEL TRACE AND HER TRANS* BODY AND SOUL CONSTANTLY BEING UNDONE AND YET EMERGING AGAIN AND AGAIN IN ANOTHER SWEEPING MUSICAL MOMENT THAT SEEMS TO KEEP HER AFLOAT. ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY: TRACEVOCALS & INSTRUMENTS: TRACEADDITIONAL VOCALS: بنیامینPRODUCTION: TRACEMIXING/MASTERING: TRACECOVER ARTWORK: THOMAS LAMBERTZART DIRECTION: THOMAS LAMBERTZMAKE-UP SHOOTING: KIMMY &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="https://tracepolly.bandcamp.com/album/you-knocked-on-my-door-to-see-the-stars"&amp;amp;amp;gt;YOU KNOCKED ON MY DOOR TO SEE THE STARS by TRACE&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; FUCKING AND DREAMING https://traceisdreaming.com/FUCKING-AND-DREAMING Mon, 12 Jun 2023 05:10:52 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/FUCKING-AND-DREAMING FUCKING AND DREAMINGDEBUT ALBUMRELEASE 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. <img width="1863" height="626" width_o="1863" height_o="626" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db2b622da89ccd1bd9c1ada7490c923f0e1bfbe822720c534452d45c331eb081/IMU_Logo_CMYK_weiss_Schutzraum.png" data-mid="204738053" border="0" data-scale="23" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db2b622da89ccd1bd9c1ada7490c923f0e1bfbe822720c534452d45c331eb081/IMU_Logo_CMYK_weiss_Schutzraum.png" /> <a href="https://traceisdreaming.bandcamp.com/album/fucking-and-dreaming">FUCKING AND DREAMING by TRACE</a> T4TEARS https://traceisdreaming.com/T4TEARS Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:15:05 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/T4TEARS T4TEARSSophomore Album RELEASE DATE January 24, 2025 1.  t4thirteen feat. Faun Vium 2.  From Hell feat. Andras_2020 3.  moon feat. Hanieh Bozorgnia 4.  Six Feet Under feat. Laura Totenhagen 5.  my hubris feat. Cat Jugravu 6.  Unfuck my soul 7.  Last of me feat. بنیامین 8.  everything i want to say is here feat. Jenny Browne 9.  Letter to Trace (13) 10. Ice Melts feat. Hanitra Wagner FOLLOWING HER DEBUT ALBUM FUCKING AND DREAMING, COLOGNE-BASED SONGWRITER, PRODUCER, PERFORMER AND MULTI INSTRUMENTALIST TRACE PRESENTS ALBUM T4TEARS, HER MOST DARING AND HONEST WORK TO DATE. T4TEARS EXPLORES THE ARTIST’S JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND IDENTITY, BOLDLY SHARING EXPERIENCES OF GRIEF AND HEALING. HERE, TRACE DRAWS FROM THE DYNAMIC ELECTRONIC PALETTE OF FUCKING AND DREAMING, THIS TIME PAINTING WITH DIFFERENT COLORS, TAKING HER TEXTURED RHYTHMS INTO A DEEPER AND MORE VULNERABLE PLACE. ASSEMBLING A GROUP OF FELLOW QUEER ARTISTS AND KINDRED SPIRITS AS COLLABORATORS, T4TEARS ALSO ACTS AS A MEDITATION ON THE POWER OF THE COLLECTIVE. TRACE DESCRIBES HER PROJECT AS A DOORWAY TO RECONNECT WITH HER YOUNGER TRANS SELF, INCORPORATING THE MUSICAL ELEMENTS THAT DEFINED HER TEENAGE YEARS: ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND DIARY ENTRIES THAT PLAY OUT INTO RAW LYRICS. IN “MY HUBRIS”, FEATURING BERLIN-BASED ROMANIAN PERFORMER CAT JUGRAVU, TRACE ADMITS: “I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT LOVE IS FOR THE OTHER AND NOT FOR MYSELF.” LATER, IN THE TRIUMPHANT POP PUNK SONG “LETTERS TO TRACE (13)” SHE SINGS: “I WANT TO LOVE YOU BETTER, NOW I’M HOLDING LETTERS IN MY HAND.” STYLISTICALLY, THE RECORD ADDRESSES THE GAPS AND INCONSISTENCIES OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES THROUGH INTENTIONAL GLITCHES AND BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL ON THE ALBUM OPENER “T4THIRTEEN”, REFLECTING THE COMPLEXITY OF MAKING SENSE OF PERSONAL TRAUMA. INCORPORATING MEMBERS OF HER CHOSEN FAMILY AS COLLABORATORS ON THE RECORD, T4TEARS SHINES A LIGHT ON THE NECESSITY OF INTERDEPENDENCE AND COLLECTIVITY WITHIN QUEER COMMUNITIES. TRACE SAYS: “IT’S DEFINITELY A STATEMENT TO THE POWER OF TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITIES AND HOW THEY CAN SAVE US BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE MY CHOSEN FAMILY REALLY HAS DONE THAT FOR ME. I DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE SURVIVED THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF TRANSITION AND DAILY TRANSPHOBIA IF I DIDN’T HAVE THEM AROUND ME.” ACCOMPANIED BY THE BACKDROP OF CALMING BIRD SOUNDS IN “LAST OF ME”, بنیامین SINGS: “CRAWLING THROUGH THE ASHES OF WHAT’S BEEN HERE BEFORE, MOTHERLESS CHILD, YOU’RE REACHING OUT YOUR HAND, BUT THE WORLD SEEMS TO IGNORE.” THE FINAL TRACK OF T4TEARS, TITLED “ICE MELTS”, IS A POIGNANT REFLECTION ON EMBRACING VULNERABILITY. HANITRA WAGNER'S VOCALS CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF HOW SADNESS CAN TRANSFORM INTO SOMETHING REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL. AS THE SAXOPHONE'S SOUND LIFTS HIGHER AND HIGHER, IT INVITES US TO CONTEMPLATE THE STRENGTH OF OUR INNER CHILD, IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO EMBRACE HER. SUPPORTED BY BEIRAT POPKULTUR KULTURAMT, CITY OF COLOGNE. SUPPORTED BY INITIATIVE MUSIK GGMBH WITH PROJECT FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER FOR CULTURE AND MEDIA. <img width="698" height="206" width_o="698" height_o="206" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf19c791aea8bbf7caf3362d744dc2ca81b523bed028f3ad387474e16d8c94d6/SK_VM_Logo_Kulturamt_RGB_NEG.png" data-mid="227207608" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/698/i/cf19c791aea8bbf7caf3362d744dc2ca81b523bed028f3ad387474e16d8c94d6/SK_VM_Logo_Kulturamt_RGB_NEG.png" />  <img width="2188" height="1000" width_o="2188" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8757e2f7d1a95547b27a4e5463b949dd47738f8b74efa728ae7b9f2213a6211d/IMU_Logo_RGB_weiss_Schutzraum.png" data-mid="227207740" border="0" data-scale="17" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8757e2f7d1a95547b27a4e5463b949dd47738f8b74efa728ae7b9f2213a6211d/IMU_Logo_RGB_weiss_Schutzraum.png" /> &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="https://traceisdreaming.bandcamp.com/album/t4tears"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;t4tears by TRACE&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Dates https://traceisdreaming.com/Dates Sun, 28 May 2023 17:08:52 +0000 TRACE https://traceisdreaming.com/Dates UPCOMING2024/03/01  DYKE NIGHTS, RAUM CAFÉ, WITTEN