September 22 2024
Part break-up album. Part reclamation of the grieving and grieved self. This is PARTYGIRL’s first fully self-produced album. The tracks were created and produced in the order they appear on the album. Tracking the very live and raw processing of a relationship ending. The process was deeply inspired by automatic surrealism with a couple of songs being fully improvised.
Exploring the liminal nature of Afrikaans and bidialectalism came naturally as part of that process.
The title “bokkie” is a colloquial Afrikaans term. Directly translated to small goat or buck/deer but is often used as a pet name for a girlfriend or wife. Something about its meanings, the nostalgic and uncomfortable feeling it elicits, and the feral way in which it was produced, indicated early on that this album would be about unearthing something. Not something pretty or easy but something learned in survival a long time ago.
For the release of the album I decided to host a private listening party in an unknown location. I released the album as a 45minute continuous video fully produced and created by me.
The album itself it only available on Bandcamp with a limited release booklet being available at the listening party.
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