Ascension by Venice Affair

Label: Raw Culture

Format: 180 limited 7’’

Catalogue number:  RWCLTR028

Release date: 31st March 2025

Venice Affair seeks only to give humans a look into their own lives, history, suffering, and peace, all while providing a backbeat sprinkled with sexuality, romanticism, and especially entertainment. The concept of “Ascension” is much larger than a description of upward motion; it is the human description of our evolution from four to two, from caves to high rises, from child to elder, and from stardust to flesh. This collection of songs has been in the works since 2021 and meticulously arranged to provide the best possible lens into Venice Affair’s concept of human existence. 

The track “Alive” seeks to display the contrast between the wholesomeness of romantic affection and the emotional torture of such affection falling through due to externalities. 

“Dead of Night” is an observation of emotions one may feel when the subject of their love is away without care, leaving in their path longing and unspecified vitriol. 

“The Web” is a natural progression of these emotions in the verses, a culmination of feelings that leads one to leave. Leaving a once bountiful love is compared through the analogy of nomadic people leaving a region which was once home, now depleted of resources, rain, and vegetation.

Credits:

All songs are written and produced by Venice Affair from 2021-2024.

All tracks have been mixed/mastered/engineered by “Lucky” Lawrence Leonard III.

Guitar, synth, bass, vocals, and drum machines are performed by Venice Affair.

Sau u on “The Web” is performed by Alex “Royat” Marshall.

Contribution to production on “The Web” is from Colin Gotschall. 

This work is dedicated to the human condition and millennia of suffering of our species’ development.

Special thanks to Lucky Lew and Mark Hatchfield.

Artwork by Paulo Jeca Schulz.

RWCLTR028. Raw Culture, Rome, 2025.