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       CIVIC GRACE      

I'm Ashley, an Australian music producer based in Berlin. Under the alias Civic Grace, I work with sound as a way of translating personal nostalgia into something collective. I’m drawn to the bending of genres, layering hypnotic classical loops, textured soundscapes and electronic grooves, to shape immersive sonic stories - whether for theatre, installations, live performance, film, or simply home listening.

Since 2019, I’ve released six solo albums.

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FANE - CIVIC GRACE & BLESSED ARE THE HEARTS THAT BEND
NOWNESS - TRANSITIONS
VOTARY TEMPLE - GUSTAVO GOMES
A SPLENDOR ONLY PARTIALLY IMAGINED - CIVIC GRACE
IN AN ARCADIAN FUTURE - Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
LBM - PABLO SAN SALVADOR
KRAFTWERK BERLIN  - BRIGHT MOMENTS EXHIBITION
VOTARY : AUGMENTED REALITY - GUSTAVO GOMES
WHY CHANGE? - MICHE/MERLE/KLEE
SOMA ART SPACE BERLIN - ANOTHER
REBEACCA - GUSTAVO GOMES
OPENING KUNSTFEST WEIMAR - MIRJAM GURTNER AND FORWARD DANCE COMPANY
VOTARY : ICON - GUSTAVO GOMES
DUSK Installation Trailer
LUSTER - CIVIC GRACE
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as it happens

 

released March 23, 2020

Produced by Civic Grace
Mix & Mastering Steph Lefrancois
Cover artwork Ashley Alexandra Wright

 

"This debut album by civic grace is defined by the momentum of impermanence, and the collage of life as observed by a thinking, living and breathing artist: moments of introspective inhales oscillate with cathartic exhalation; the ruminations of Maya Angelou and Patti Smith punctuated by the channeled abandon of deep driving beats. Distilled piano reminiscent of the new classical masters are the quietly guiding force in tracks like a splendour only partially imagined, tinged with a haunting ethereality. With the album culminating in the bare intimacy of where you are now (in the artist’s words: ‘me playing the piano and humming along on one lonely winter night in Berlin’). The artist  CIVIC GRACE is in a transient and meditative state of mind, and just as Smith declares in the most absolute disappearance - ‘I’m definitely into the future’ - so are we, drawn into Grace’s beautiful stream and flowing into what is now, and yet to be."

            - Juliet Burnett

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EMISSARIES OF DELUSIONAL OPTIMISM

released October 21, 2020

RESET RECORDS

Produced by C I V I C G R A C E.
Mix & Mastering Ulysse Zangs
Cover artwork Massimiliano Rossetto

"A sedulous and arresting meditation." 

                  - Ran Barnea, Resident Advisor. 

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ALMOST PARADISE

released October 18, 2024

Produced by Civic Grace

Mix and Mastering Antoine Mermet DUR ET DOUX

Cover artwork by Ashley Alexandra Wright

ALMOST PARADISE by Civic Grace pushes the edges of multiple worlds, where deep, driving beats dissolve into moments of cinematic stillness. Across seven tracks, the album refuses linearity, twisting through genres to sketch out a narrative that’s been gradually unraveling over time. Immersive textures of field recordings and synths pulse in tandem, blending the past and present. In this almost-paradise, an echo from forgotten places flickers, always near but never quite within reach

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A Blush Of Romance.

released June 11, 2020

Produced by Civic Grace

Mix and Mastering Ashley Alexandra Wright

Cover artwork by Ashley Alexandra Wright


 
 

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Arrow of Time 

released October 14, 2022

YVN RECORDS​

Produced by Civic Grace 
Mastering by Mattias Fridell

feat. Sara Wihelmsson
Album cover by Matthias Stegmueller

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FAHLSTRÖM

released July 14, 2024

​Produced by Civic Grace 

Mix and Mastering Ashley Alexandra Wright

Cover artwork by Ashley Alexandra Wright

"Thank you CIVIC GRACE for this great soundtrack. Uplifting and calming at the same time — like coffee and cigarettes … somewhere between Clint Mansell and Andy Stott. I just want to listen to it again and again."  ★★★★★

                - Harald Geistler

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