Gravity Pleasure - Record Label & Events Series
co-run by Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White
Mission
In December 2024, amidst ongoing frustrations with music platforms that continue to marginalize or overlook non-cis-male artists, we (slyn & Slowfoam) decided to create a platform aligned with our values, rooted in care, intention, and solidarity with each other and our planet. Gravity Pleasure was born from this impulse: it’s a platform dedicated exclusively to FLINTA (female, lesbian, intersex, nonbinary, trans, agender) artists working across ambient, experimental, leftfield, no-genre music & sound. Grounded in an intersectional eco-feminist ethos, Gravity Pleasure exists to uplift marginalised voices and cultivate deeper listening and kinship with the more-than-human world through a hydrofeminist methodology. As queer, ecologically attuned artists navigating a time of climate crisis and disconnection, we believe that platforming FLINTA voices, fundraising for mutual aid, curating inclusive listening experiences, and supporting planetary well-being are interconnected and essential acts of care. We’re honored to announce our first compilation album, Water Bodies, as a collective offering that brings this ethos to life.
Water Bodies V/A
Gravity Pleasure's inaugural release, Water Bodies, is a rippling compilation of womxn, trans, and non-binary artists and collaborators that invites listeners into an aqueous paraworld of fluid resistance and sonic kinship. Across 21 tracks from the likes of Yetsuby, Flora Yin Wong, Felisha Ledesma, Ursula Sereghy, tibslc, and more, Water Bodies spans a post-genre miasma of ethereal mermaid music, cathartic flows, and glistening sibilants. Inspired by a poetic prompt from Lou Croff Blake, each track is an exquisite message in a bottle of deep diving emotionality. Pulling from a wide range of musical perspectives – field recording, lovesick ballads, shimmering downtempo, post-party comedown, and percolating ambient – the compilation contains multitudes yet maintains deep sentimental coherence. Like a wave crashing in slow motion, each artist sonifies possible ways of being, insisting on the porous, the interdependent, and the deep and unruly. Water Bodies reminds us that home is a body made of water, to which we all belong.
Promt
Home is a body made of water. Remember.
Close eyes.
Listen to drips; hear voices. What do they tell you?
Make your body a grotto. What does it hold?
Spider’s tapestry: flycatcher.
Roadmap: net of sinews.
Lost in night forest: seek breadcrumbs. Remember?
Body is lighthouse: shine through cloud canopy.
Body is fish: wet is all you know.
Sink deep, fly high, stretch your arpeggio from young to old. Remember.
-Lou Croff Blake
Events
The release will be followed by a series of events in Autumn 2025 in collaboration with forms of minutiae, a publishing platform for sonic ecologies, field recordings, and electroacoustic music. The events are ‘Earth-bonding nights’ are richly dimensional experiences that strengthen ties between our local community and environment by integrating performances with workshops, discussions, and collaborative speculation. Gravity Pleasure’s signature aesthetic touch: the performances live score satellite imagery of Earth’s surface. By distorting our perception of scale, speed, and mass, we remind ourselves that we are human bodies belonging to a planetary body, and each of us is part of a pluriversal whole.
Water Bodies V/A
Gravity Pleasure's inaugural release, Water Bodies, is a rippling compilation of womxn, trans, and non-binary artists and collaborators that invites listeners into an aqueous paraworld of fluid resistance and sonic kinship. Across 21 tracks from the likes of Yetsuby, Flora Yin Wong, Felisha Ledesma, Ursula Sereghy, tibslc, and more, Water Bodies spans a post-genre miasma of ethereal mermaid music, cathartic flows, and glistening sibilants. Inspired by a poetic prompt from Lou Croff Blake, each track is an exquisite message in a bottle of deep diving emotionality. Pulling from a wide range of musical perspectives – field recording, lovesick ballads, shimmering downtempo, post-party comedown, and percolating ambient – the compilation contains multitudes yet maintains deep sentimental coherence. Like a wave crashing in slow motion, each artist sonifies possible ways of being, insisting on the porous, the interdependent, and the deep and unruly. Water Bodies reminds us that home is a body made of water, to which we all belong.
Promt
Home is a body made of water. Remember.
Close eyes.
Listen to drips; hear voices. What do they tell you?
Make your body a grotto. What does it hold?
Spider’s tapestry: flycatcher.
Roadmap: net of sinews.
Lost in night forest: seek breadcrumbs. Remember?
Body is lighthouse: shine through cloud canopy.
Body is fish: wet is all you know.
Sink deep, fly high, stretch your arpeggio from young to old. Remember.
-Lou Croff Blake
Events
The release will be followed by a series of events in Autumn 2025 in collaboration with forms of minutiae, a publishing platform for sonic ecologies, field recordings, and electroacoustic music. The events are ‘Earth-bonding nights’ are richly dimensional experiences that strengthen ties between our local community and environment by integrating performances with workshops, discussions, and collaborative speculation. Gravity Pleasure’s signature aesthetic touch: the performances live score satellite imagery of Earth’s surface. By distorting our perception of scale, speed, and mass, we remind ourselves that we are human bodies belonging to a planetary body, and each of us is part of a pluriversal whole.
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