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Germaine Dunes

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Germaine Dunes has always written songs for herself. She studied archaeology, discovering, among other artifacts, a Brahmi inscription on an amethyst at Tissamaharama in Southern Sri-Lanka. She changed course to work in space station development at ESA, and then at CERN, collecting neutrons from distant galaxies inside of an ice cave on top of the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland for astronaut life support system research, as well as studying the effects of climate change on underwater acoustics. After a failed attempt to become a science fiction writer, largely due to her own impatience, Germaine moved from her home in Amsterdam to Los Angeles, and spent the pandemic writing and recording her first album, Midnight Game. This was a process of discovery, catalyzed by the joy and the alienation of immigration in love, by adventure, by science and fiction.

Engineering and producing herself, the record was made at home, as well as in a cabin at Sonic Ranch studio on a 2300 acre pecan orchard in the west Texas desert. Collaborators include Carly Bond (Meernaa), Adam Brisbin (Sam Evian, Valerie June), Mat Davidson (Twain, The Low Anthem), Austin Vaughan (Cass McCombs, Luke Temple), Adam Moss (The Brother Brother's, Anais Mitchell), Erin Durant, Dylan Meek (Post Malone, Miguel, Quavo), and Buck Meek (Big Thief).

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