- Digital
Marie Delprat
Dust in my veins
-OUS
- Cat No: OUS061A
- Release: 2026-06-12
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Lately I have been inspired by Baroque music, especially in how it relates to pop. Baroque arias were the pop songs of their time, direct, emotional, and made to move people. — Marie Delprat
Dust in my veins is the first single of Marie Delprat's debut on -ous. With What remains after desire, -ous introduces French musician and performer Marie Delprat to the label. The three track EP reflects on what remains once intensity fades, the calm after the longing, the quiet spaces where fragility and tenderness transform into strength. Moving between intimacy and abstraction, and blending layered synthetic voices, bass synthesizers, minimal rhythms and textural sounds, Marie Delprat creates songs that move between pop structures and more exploratory sound worlds. The friction between intimacy and artificiality stands at the core of her quest to shape emotional and narrative spaces. Both Baroque music and Pop share a tension between emotion and form, between repetition and ornamentation. This EP grows from that dialogue, translating the emotional clarity of early music into a contemporary electronic language where softness holds its own intensity.
The songs are built around literary fragments and poetic reflections on the work of writers who open perspectives on fatigue, intimacy, and exposure. Each track begins from an image, question, or philosophical idea found in the work of the respective author. For Haboob, Marie was inspired by Ariana Reines’ use of the desert and dust storm as metaphors for exposure, transformation, and survival. The track reflects that elemental force, where danger and possibility meet. Vulnerability is a political stance: survival through attunement to silence and fragility. Dust in my veins responds to philosopher Éric Fiat’s reflections on fatigue as a consequence of caring, creating, and living fully. This piece translates the tension between exhaustion and vitality, exploring how weariness carries a quiet strength and an ethics of care through imagery of dust, electricity and vast starry heavens. Kae Tempest’s poetry repeatedly explores identity as something fluid and constantly changing. Yous echoes their question ‘How many yous have you been?’, and explores transformation and selfhood, by treating vulnerability not as weakness but as a path to communion.
French musician and performer Marie Delprat explores the interaction between digital and analog media, often by combining electronic music with influences from early music. She is a classically trained musician, having studied the recorder and early music at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and the HKB Berne. After years of working within ‘structured musical systems’, Marie’s practice shifted towards improvisation, composition and performance. Central to her work is the exploration of a staged persona as a hybrid and symbolic figure that allows her to address questions of identity, gender, alterity, and belonging, while navigating an aesthetic space between contemporary electronic music and early music traditions.
Marie Delprat’s solo debut Life is Sick was released in 2023 on Unvague. Her projects also include collaborations, such as the audiovisual performance I dreamt of Fire (2026) with Tom Lane, and the duo Marytronics with Masha Ten, which released the EP Dull Star Doll in 2025. In her creation Ethereal Realms – all fiction is metaphor (2024), she investigated a symbolic creature inspired by The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), a feminist science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Marie Delprat was selected for the SHAPE+ platform in 2025, and she is currently part of the Pro Helvetia Fast Forward program.
Dust in my veins is the first single of Marie Delprat's debut on -ous. With What remains after desire, -ous introduces French musician and performer Marie Delprat to the label. The three track EP reflects on what remains once intensity fades, the calm after the longing, the quiet spaces where fragility and tenderness transform into strength. Moving between intimacy and abstraction, and blending layered synthetic voices, bass synthesizers, minimal rhythms and textural sounds, Marie Delprat creates songs that move between pop structures and more exploratory sound worlds. The friction between intimacy and artificiality stands at the core of her quest to shape emotional and narrative spaces. Both Baroque music and Pop share a tension between emotion and form, between repetition and ornamentation. This EP grows from that dialogue, translating the emotional clarity of early music into a contemporary electronic language where softness holds its own intensity.
The songs are built around literary fragments and poetic reflections on the work of writers who open perspectives on fatigue, intimacy, and exposure. Each track begins from an image, question, or philosophical idea found in the work of the respective author. For Haboob, Marie was inspired by Ariana Reines’ use of the desert and dust storm as metaphors for exposure, transformation, and survival. The track reflects that elemental force, where danger and possibility meet. Vulnerability is a political stance: survival through attunement to silence and fragility. Dust in my veins responds to philosopher Éric Fiat’s reflections on fatigue as a consequence of caring, creating, and living fully. This piece translates the tension between exhaustion and vitality, exploring how weariness carries a quiet strength and an ethics of care through imagery of dust, electricity and vast starry heavens. Kae Tempest’s poetry repeatedly explores identity as something fluid and constantly changing. Yous echoes their question ‘How many yous have you been?’, and explores transformation and selfhood, by treating vulnerability not as weakness but as a path to communion.
French musician and performer Marie Delprat explores the interaction between digital and analog media, often by combining electronic music with influences from early music. She is a classically trained musician, having studied the recorder and early music at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and the HKB Berne. After years of working within ‘structured musical systems’, Marie’s practice shifted towards improvisation, composition and performance. Central to her work is the exploration of a staged persona as a hybrid and symbolic figure that allows her to address questions of identity, gender, alterity, and belonging, while navigating an aesthetic space between contemporary electronic music and early music traditions.
Marie Delprat’s solo debut Life is Sick was released in 2023 on Unvague. Her projects also include collaborations, such as the audiovisual performance I dreamt of Fire (2026) with Tom Lane, and the duo Marytronics with Masha Ten, which released the EP Dull Star Doll in 2025. In her creation Ethereal Realms – all fiction is metaphor (2024), she investigated a symbolic creature inspired by The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), a feminist science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Marie Delprat was selected for the SHAPE+ platform in 2025, and she is currently part of the Pro Helvetia Fast Forward program.
