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Artist Kay Belardinelli's blog.

Living Room Floor

Aug 24, 2024

My last Mariassunta album took months to record. In a windowless room, alone with a narcissist.

We had a ritual in which my music was slowly sanitized and my sense of reality distorted.

The artist sitting on the floor holding a guitar in one hand and reaching towards something in the foreground with the other.
Guitar pedals, a laptop, and an open journal spread out over a carpet

I recorded my next album on the living room floor, the vocals in the bedroom.

It took a couple hours. I’ll keep the imperfections because I love them.

Sample of a new song, recorded at home.

Old Ways

Aug 10, 2024

Mar track, work in progress.

“DONE WITH THE FAKES”

This footage is from a livestream of “a Prairie Rattlesnake rookery (MegaDen) at an undisclosed location in Colorado. At this rookery, hundreds of snakes overwinter, shed their skins, and bask in the sun. Dozens of pregnant snakes spend the summer here preparing to give birth and care for their babies.” In this edited recording, a snake sheds her skin while a companion assists.

Serpent Goddesses and Dead Saints (Summer Reading)

Jul 24, 2024

A stack of library books on a wooden shelf, with titles like 'Goddess' and 'Cult of the Dead'.
A snake in a tree and a woman gaze intimately at each other, the latter holding an apple in her palm.
Closeup of 'Eve' by Lucas Cranach the Elder

I’m the Snake

Jul 15, 2024

Mar track, work in progress, set to a scene from Vagabond (1985, dir. Agnès Varda).

Snake Worship

Jul 10, 2024

A brown snake in a simple pose curled around the head
Brachyorrhos amaemus
A person with a snake coiled around their face and head
Port-au-Prince, 2004
Snake woven tightly into itself
Coluber Alleghaniensis
A woman with a blissful expression and long flowing hair embracing someone at her chest, her limbs curled like a snake
Top portion of Water Snakes I by Gustav Klimt
A person in a red head covering gazes into the camera behind a small snake curled on their face
A healing snake.
A man with long hair spills out from the mouth of a large snake, with a woman in elaborate dress looks on holding a staff and a bird
Athena watches a man reborn from the mouth of a serpent. She wears snakes on her back and the head of Medusa on her chest.
A tangle of snake bodies in a bed of dry leaves, multiple heads visible
Group of snakes mating
A woman stretches her body out with a relaxed expression, the lower half of her body mutating into snakes and the face of a tortured man
”Serpentine Super Woman“
A snake artfully coiled looking off to the left
Coronella rhomba-maculata

Thieves

Jul 1, 2024

Falling into the Ocean, in rain.

Thank the thieves who set you free.

7 Seconds, Champion, 108

Jun 30, 2024, From the Archives

Punks piled into the crowd at a show, most of them grinning, one of them looks a little smooshed and distressed.
The crowd for 7 Seconds and Champion.

7 Seconds and Champion at ICC Church in Allston (Boston), March 2005. Plus one photo from a 108 show, maybe Boston, but probably 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, also circa 2006.

A microphone is held in a crowd of dudes, their limbs going in every direction.
Champion (I think), and the crowd.
A guitarist jumping in the air.
Champion.
A small group screams together into a microphone.
108.
The front-person leans in to scream with the audience.
7 Seconds.
A sweaty man with a shaved head and a streak of black paint on his cheek looks intensely to the side.
Champion.
A band performs while someone is crouched low with an SLR camera.
Me photographing the crowd during Champion's set.
Two guitarists jump in the air while a small person off to the side photographs.
Me photographing 7 Seconds.