Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host christeeeene's experimental artistic practice so far. Not only those that use mixes within their visual practice, but those who use words to inform their mixing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all cherries.

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This mix for dublab gathers a selection of songs by Delphine Dora inspired by and woven around poetry.

Delphine Dora is a French musician. A pianist, improviser, and explorer of language, she has spent years crafting a constantly shifting body of work where voices, melodies, songs and sonic textures become fragments of embodied poetry. Moving fluidly between French, English, German, Russian, and glossolalia, her music is fragile, haunted, intuitive, and forever in transformation. At the crossroads of spectral avant folk, minimalism, free improvisation, and electroacoustic experimentation, she creates intimate landscapes in which every breath seems to carry the trace of a hidden poem. A singular presence within the European avant-folk scene, Delphine Dora cultivates an aesthetic of intimacy and impermanence.

Poetry, however, remains at the heart of her artistic world. Delphine Dora has devoted entire albums to musical conversations with the works of Sylvia Plath, Kathleen Raine, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marina Tsvetaeva and Walt Whitman, transforming their writings into floating songs, whispered presences, and almost ritualistic sound pieces. Her work also drifts through the worlds of Saint-John Perse, Georg Trakl, Baudelaire, and Novalis, or female spiritual poetry (in her forthcoming album « Voices of Light »).

Photograph of 'Le Lapin' rock in Ploumanach. Taken in Brittany, France. July 1936; Eileen Agar 1899-1991; Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar in 1989 and transferred from the photograph collection in 2012.’ © Tate