Theoretical text/concept by Stefan Tiron: "This album might be the start of an answer to an enigma raised by Andrew Ross in an interview made around 1996. In it, he observed on the discovery of supposedly fossil Mars bacteria on meteorite ALH8400, and what Ross saw as a very peculiar identification (of the "we're not alone" type) with some very ancient and dissimilar, truly microscopic life forms. How is it that humans that have made everything possible to demarcate themselves from all other mammals, and especially their closest hairy cousins, the apes, have managed to find such a close adherence to the invisible world of bacteria that are existing for us on a truly absconded and alien plane? One possible answer could be found in this album and its visual extensions. It closely relates to epidermal questions, the surface of epidermis used as a shifting borderline to demarcate ourselves but also an extensive landscape of invisible and unfathomable exchanges, violent scarifications, salty or milky leaks, caressing touches, microbial adherence and post parturition colonisation; a filtering surface that helps avoid most chemical showers. An alarmingly absorbing surface that is also in need of scratching. rubbing, moisturizing, oiling and waxing to keep up its tenderness, elasticity and permeability. It's true that in matters of human exceptionalism, of bitterly guarding privileges, barriers and claiming uniqueness though intra- or inter- species discrimination, skin has been u