The Real Thing

by Blood Moon Project

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Written as a game of consequences, “The Real Thing” started life with Heloise and some modular synths, finding a sound like a distant motorbike or foghorn, and shimmering bells.

As is their practice, each member of Blood Moon Project then took one element to build the foundations of the track, with Tanya writing in a bassline, and Lu on a TR-8 beat. In the midst of pandemic isolation, lyrically, and musically, the song became a deep and heavy rhythm and bass-driven yearning for physical contact and real human connection - to be in sweaty rooms, heaving with friends and strangers, elevated in time and space - a yearning for The Real Thing!

Blood Moon Project have reunited with previous collaborators DBLG on the music video for “The Real Thing”. The award-winning digital agency decided to mirror the Blood Moon Project writing process but with visuals, each of their artists taking a different section and working independently from one another, without hearing or seeing any of the other segments. It’s astonishing how much each of the works speak to the music, and to one another, to create an intuitive and fluid whole.

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The Real Thing

I want to move to you
i’m restless
my tendrils uncurling
they long to talk with you
more fluid than words
to say what i need is your touch
but i’m suspended
My body untethered to the floor
No words can touch this

And I can’t shake this dream away
Your shimmering light casts a spell over me
My body close to yours
No simulation!
What I need is your touch, and the heaving room
Around me
The real thing

The real thing
Ehhhh x 4

And here we’re floating in a red - a red mist
We’re hovering a few inches off the ground
dipped in n dipped in morning sweat
Slow mo limbs
do the talking through liquid

Breath comes quick comes hard to catch
Mouth full and wide
Eyes shooting bright beams across around the room
Bouncing off of all the beautiful bodies
Lines of contact kris crossing
Charged and humming through and out and back
And move and move and move
To speak to speak to speak
No words could touch this

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released May 18, 2022
Written/recorded/produced: Blood Moon Project
Mixed by: Sam Beste
Mastering by: Luis Bonilla

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Blood Moon Project London, UK

Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, Tanya Auclair and Luisa Gerstein are all singers, musicians, composers, and producers based in London. They come together in Deep Throat Choir and The Quorum, all-female ensembles exploring the voice through polyphonic singing traditions and Deep Listening practices. Blood Moon Project is a new experimental project as a trio. ... more

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