duendita Detail New Project ‘a strong desire to survive’

New York’s eldite will unveil a new project, ‘a strong desire to survive’, on April 4th via 10k.

The ten-track collection follows last year’s ‘the mind is a miracle’, and was born from duendita’s transformative experience during their first extended trip to Berlin where they first met longtime collaborators Noah Becker and Anton Remy.

“We would jam all the time at Baketown, our recording studio and art space in Schoenberg. It was an era where I’d write on their beats or at the piano, and I couldn’t stop writing about the pain,”they share,“all these bangers came out about how badly I wanted to live and overcome it all.”

Alongside the project reveal, duendita shares a lilting piano ballad ‘baby teeth’; the coda is a reverberant harmony of nine vocalists, all recorded in duendita’s bedroom. Of the new song, duendita says:“‘baby teeth’ celebrates the joy of healing from the darkest experiences. It’s a piano vocal banger about feeling safe and strong.”

The wider project’s visual direction is equally as poignant as the auditory journey. duendita enlisted friend and artist Kiyomi Taylor to create the cover art, which features an image of a deep-sea creature who has adapted to survive in the most grotesque way.

“She’s grown long nails, gills, scales, and killer teeth, just to survive. At first glance, the man in the image looks like her next meal, but in reality, she wishes she could hold someone without scratching or hurting them,”duendita explains.“This image mirrors the themes of the project – survival, transformation, and the struggle to love and be loved.”

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Photo Credit: Alberto Vargas