The Eye Against the Ashen Sky

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1.	Eye in the Sky 05:13	buy track
2.	Desiring Machines 04:58	buy track
3.	Lenny 03:09	buy track
4.	Child of Rage 04:54	buy track

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Neumann wrote The Eye Against The Ashen Sky last year in London parallel to completing her master's degree in philosophy, in which she intensively studied the French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre's, theory of the gaze. Inspired by her research, as well as Nabokov's novel "The Eye" and various works of utopian science-fiction, the EP documents a world of paranoia, where the gaze of an overwhelming otherness is ever-present.

"On the one hand, being perceived is in itself a life-affirming thing, because the recognition by an Other confirms that I exist. On the other hand it is life-denying or threatening, due to the fact that in the perception of the other I always become an object - a static thing in the world, which is the opposite of what I am. The record is largely about this dichotomy. It is a gaze back at the gaze – hence the title The Eye Against the Ashen Sky"

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released November 3, 2023

Written: Sarah Neumann
Produced: Jung Kim, Sarah Neumann
Mix: Stephen Sedgwick
Master: Felix Davis, Mike Hillier
Guitar and Synth: Jung Kim
Drums and Percussion: Louis Giannamore, James Larter

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Atka London, UK

Atka is alternative, electronic songwriter Sarah Neumann. Raised in East-Germany, she is now based in London.

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