dé-collage (French for “to take off” or “to become unglued”—from ground or water) is an improvising trio formed from long-built relationships converging in sudden, breathtaking musical lift-off. Inspired by the act of deconstructing a collage, the group creates layered soundscapes through a shifting process of bringing together and falling apart. Each member brings their own sacred internal landscape, drawing from ritual, grief, joy, and the places they come from—melding personal textures and traditions into a shared sonic language.

The trio first came together in October 2024 for an improvised performance at the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians Festival at Roulette in NYC. Since then, they’ve cultivated a sound rooted in patience, porousness, and somatic empathy. Water is a recurring theme—both literal and metaphorical—a force of balance, change, and transformation. Their improvisations are site-responsive, shaped as much by environment as by instrument: barns humming with ambient noise, rivers beneath the recordings, landscapes imprinting psychic residue like photographs in development.

With members scattered across the U.S., dé-collage is a constellation in motion—a sacred gathering, a therapy band, and an ongoing process of unlearning. Their debut recording, dcollage, is an offering to place, presence, and the radical act of becoming unglued.