Tongue in

the Mind

The New York trio consists of multimedia artist, DJ, and writer Juliana Huxtable, multi-instrumentalist composer Joe Rinaldo Heffernan (aka Jealous Orgasm), and Dylan Shir, aka the renowned producer Via App. Starting life in New York City a decade ago as a free-flowing improvisational performance art project between Huxtable and Heffernan, the now trio's music is impossible to confine within strict genre boundaries, mutating pointillistically as it vibrates through rock, jazz, club and experimental forms. Their energy landed them on some of the world's most prestigious stages: they were commissioned by MoMA for Performa 15, played at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and closed out The Netherlands' Rewire Festival in 2018, all before releasing any music. 

Their first single “Pretty Canary” and self-titled debut EP were released by the acclaimed PAN imprint in 2023 and 2024 respectively, harnessing a little of contemporary New York City's chaos and contorted elegance. Future shock and modern malaise aren't filtered through the expected amalgamation of galvanized sonics and post-everything rhythmic signals, but spun into colorful silks that hang in opposition to expectation, reflecting post-punk and no wave, prog and DIY pop as Huxtable, Heffernan and Shir blot surreal vocals over lysergic instrumentation.

Sensual and perversely physical, it's music that genuinely rises to the promise of psychedelia by asking not what's real, but what's lavish.


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Artist(s) of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

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