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Pharmakon’s New Album, ‘Contact,’ Explores the Four Stages of Trance

The record also marks the tenth anniversary of Margaret Chardiet’s project.
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New York artist Margaret Chardiet is marking the tenth anniversary of her Pharmakon project with a new album, Contact. The LP, her third following 2014's Bestial Burden, is due out March 31 via Sacred Bones Records.

Whereas Bestial Burden was about the disconnect between the mind and the body, Chardiet said in a press release that on Contact she shifted her focus to "the moments when our mind can come outside of and transcend our bodies." To achieve this, she studied trance states and applied them to her live shows. When it came to translating those live experiences to the album, she structured the tracks on each side of Contact after the four stages of trance: preparation, onset, climax, and resolution.

Listen to one of its tracks, "Transmission," below, and preorder the album here. Pharmakon is scheduled to perform at 2017 festivals including Berlin's CTM, the Netherlands' Rewire, and Moogfest in North Carolina.

New York artist Margaret Chardiet is marking the tenth anniversary of her Pharmakon project with a new album, Contact. The LP, her third following 2014's Bestial Burden, is due out March 31 via Sacred Bones Records.

Whereas Bestial Burden was about the disconnect between the mind and the body, Chardiet said in a press release that on Contact she shifted her focus to "the moments when our mind can come outside of and transcend our bodies." To achieve this, she studied trance states and applied them to her live shows. When it came to translating those live experiences to the album, she structured the tracks on each side of Contact after the four stages of trance: preparation, onset, climax, and resolution.

Listen to one of its tracks, "Transmission," below, and preorder the album here. Pharmakon is scheduled to perform at 2017 festivals including Berlin's CTM, the Netherlands' Rewire, and Moogfest in North Carolina.