South African Musician
Adrian Hubertus Bartholomew Martens, known professionally as Dasychira ( ) is a South African-born musician and record producer based in New York. Dasychira released EPs "Immolated" (2017), "Haptics" (2018), debut album "xDream" (2019) on Blueberry Records and second album "Undead" (2024) on unseelie. They are a co-founder of art collective and music label unseelie.
Career.
Martens studied music at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.
In January 2017, they released the single "Vipera" featuring New York singer Embaci and announced their first release on FaltyDL's Blueberry Records called "Immolated". "Tiny Mix Tapes" gave the album 4/5 and said:
Relentlessly, productions veer into massified attempts at cinematically swallowing whole experiences of apocalypse, dysmorphia, and alienation into highly coded extensions of personal will. Dasychira’s music skirts through this milieu with a truly thoughtful impermanence
The following year, Dasychira released the EP "Haptics" on Blueberry Records, featuring collaborations with Haleek Maul, Malibu, and Embaci. Debut album "xDream" was released on Blueberry Records October 31, 2019. Their mixtape "Hollywood Forever" was published on unseelie in May 2021. Their song "Banyan Tree" was released on February 10, 2023 on unseelie, the first single from their 2024 album "Undead" on unseelie.
In addition to their solo work, they have production credits for Saul Williams, Haleek Maul, Embaci, Yikii and Daniela Lalita.
Personal life.
Dasychira was born Adrian Martens in Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently based in New York. They identify as non-binary and use they/them pronouns.
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