FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS, the invocation of Marbas
A wrap up and stunning photos & video from Sydney's FRSS, our Melbourne show is coming on 20 December, and a new single has been launched!
A submergence and emergence from the void, and a rite of ordeal… Our casting and collaboration with Mistress Tokyo at The Soft Machine’s FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS in Sydney went deeper than we’ve ever been.
Held in an ordeal space for nearly the entire set, with all rational thought leaving as body and mind could only focus on drawing breath, enduring the ropes biting into flesh, turned into the hanged man and lost deep in the incantations of ecstatic agonies.
And with the ending of the ritual, the slow unbinding and return to earth, ground and the world. Dazed, satiated, and euphoric, awareness spreads out once more like the tides over sand, as a sweet moment of repose is granted amidst the sound and fury.
There’s a level of trust involved in giving over control, life and limb over to another in Shibari suspension bondage, and Mistress Tokyo is one undoubtedly worthy of that depth of trust. Thank you, from the depths of heart and soul for that submersion into the deep and return.
The next FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS will take place at Stay Gold in Melbourne on 20 December, with an absolutely massive lineup featuring Dane Blacklock & the Preacher’s Daughter in what will be their last show for an indefinite period, The Omega Point & The Safety Word, with performances from Infernal Desire Machine, Eros Dancers, Harli Adalia, Himboy Ropes and Red Rakia Dance. DJ’s will be taking us through the night till late with the talents of Koil Statik and Syme Tollens.
ZCluster will be teaming up with the sensually sadistic Himboy Ropes for this iteration, we await to see what shapes will take form in the night…
Witness other team ups between The Safety Word & Harli Adalia, and The Omega Point and Infernal Desire Machine. It’s going to be wild.
New Single - MARBAS
To answer truly of things hidden or secret, plague bearer and restorer... a transmutation of forms, to be unfettered - to live.
MARBAS - new single available now on Bandcamp and shortly on all digital streaming services.
Artwork:
Photos - BonnieQueans
Collage / Treatment - Sai Jaiden Lillith Art
zcluster.bandcamp.com
Until we come together in the void once more,
In chaos
ZCLUSTER