Spirito Celeste by Drasii

Drasii is the duo of Chris Kalis and Lisa Armstrong. Since emerging as an offshoot of Chandeliers, a legend of Chicago's late-aughts loft party scene, the pair's sound emissions have gotten trancier, deeper, slinkier. Their new LP, Spirito Celeste (FPE Records, October 4), introduces bliss directly to the brain, flirting with the warm pads of the future and the gnarly blur of the past. Infused with the industrial sounds of the city, it evokes the visceral, spiritual, and communal strains of Chicago House and Detroit Techno, a sort of eternal pulse reaching through generations of party people.

Collecting perfected versions of their four early-20s singles, and adding gorgeous new material including the late-night banger "Outer Limits", Spirito Celeste documents a revelation. Orb-like and occasionally Chris & Cosey-adjacent (or at least some kinda Warp-ed), it's a dream, tinged with grief or about love (and loss) across space/time, and a fascination with cults, the supernatural, UFOs, unknown spaces, and the otherworldly.

DM for address & enter through the back, up the fire escape 2 the dance party, gathering for Midwestern ceremonies, chasing sounds all night. Frigid cold winters and swampy summers spent sweating in hot warehouses to the pulse of drum machines… once again we find each other, outside of time, at last, watching forever… Enough. The grooves are now locked in, and you can be there too.

Spirito Celeste will be available in digital and cassette format from FPE Records October 4, 2024.

Lisa Armstrong + Chris Kalis

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