(Modern Classical, Minimalism) [CD] Delphine Dora - A Stream of Consciousness - 2012, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Delphine Dora - A Stream of Consciousness (Delphine Dora: born 15.02.1980 | Paris, Île-de-France, France) Жанр: Modern Classical | Minimalism Издатель: Siren Wire Recordings | SWE 015 | UK | 2012 Аудио: FLAC (*.flac) | lossless | tracks+.cue | CD Сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет Источник: what.CD 01. An Ode to Infinity (03:13) 02. Crowds vs Empty Spaces (03:15) 03. Idle Persistence (03:01) 04. Fragments of Dreams Are Only Echoes of Memories (05:00) 05. Mysterious Meanderings (03:35) 06. A Constellation of Stars (02:49) 07. Obsessions (03:34) 08. Psychic Mind (01:56) 09. Serious Conversations (02:15) 10. Freedom Is Not to Be Out of Restraints (04:35) 11. If We... (01:27) 12. I Wish I Could (04:27) 13. A Plain Feeling (03:28) 14. Conclusion (07:11) (00:49:52)   ...     log Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011 EAC extraction logfile from 7. 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She did many solo or collaboration recordings in the past and now, released on micro independent labels or available by free download by Archive.org or Free Music Archive, of weird, unclassifiable or intimate music more or less structured; a voice alternating and ranging of the spectrum from screams to whispers… If her musical curiosity without limits led her to collaborate with artists from different musical spheres : songwriting/folk music (Jullian Angel, Half Asleep) noise music/post-rock (Li), experimental-weird-folk (Salvatore Borelli), free jazz and improvised music (Paulo Chagas, Dupla Bruno), her music is still based around the piano, her instrument of choice. Her solo piano and collaborations projects, from piano vignettes in the classical form to avant-garde and free improvisations, using both outside and inside piano, show her unfinished taste for new territories... Recent projects include an adaptation of Walt Whitman "leaves of grass", a trio instrumental and improvised album (piano/double bass/clarinet), a conceptual and collaboration album based on the theme of alienation inspired by real or fictional characters (Molloy, Sarah Kane, Zelda Fitzgerald...). • • • "Instant Classic! I have no idea what language Dora is singing in – it might be french or it might be not a language but listen to the expression and you know exactly what she is saying. It’s like listening to 19th century-german lieder, except easier to enjoy. Not because the longest track is 2:55. Probably because she is writing for her own voice, and manipulates it effortlessly like a wizard – the best kind of vocalist. The piano is restrained – mostly playing a traditional harmonic rle to support the voice – allowing the voice a landscape in which to emote all over you. The songs are short, as they have captured a moment. (...)"(Julia Holter – L.A Magazine) • • • Delphine Dora is a versatile and iconoclast musician from France, improvising mostly with voice and piano. Apart the piano, her main instrument, she plays also harmonium, organ, harpsichord, keyboard, melodica and... violin. Since 2005, she has issued a large number of recordings in various musical styles: free folk, free improvisation, minimalism, post-classical, experimental vocalism... Recently, she released a concept album featuring songs inspired by fictional characters such as Beckett’s Molloy and Zelda Fitzgerald, a Sylvia Plath poems setting to songs (Conversation Among The Ruins), a piano solo record ("A Stream of Consciousness"), a set of jazz related improvisations recorded with double bassist Bruno Duplant and clarinetist Paulo Chagas (Onion Petals as Candle Light) and she co-directed a project of improvised songs performed by children (Les Loustics – Les Squelettes). Besides her solo work, she collaborated with musicians such as Half Asleep, Salvatore Borrelli, Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas, Aine O’Dwyer, Eloise Decazes (Arlt) and she has shared stage with with Lau Nau, James Blackshaw, Baby Dee, Liam Singer, Wounded Knee, Progressive Patriot... She's also the founder of Wild Silence since 2012 of WILD SILENCE label for her own releases and other artists of her choice (Richard Moult, Thollem Mc Donas, MonteIsola...). "As we listen on, one can almost hear echoes of old forgotten tunes. Yet, the music remains particularly elusive. This is also reflected in Delphine’s piano playing and singing which often oscillate between pure wordless vocalizations and a series of ambiguous mumbles that sound like they belong to an existing language. Below the surface, there are these ghostlike melodies which now seem to rejoice to have finally been given a voice... even if that cannot be really put into words...(...) People who are into the music of Josephine Foster, Islaja or Mary Margaret O'Hara should definitely check this one out. Simply beautiful..."(Foxy Digitalis) • • • "Solo pianists can come across as dry and removed or playful and ebullient. When a single instrument plays for the length of an album, it’s better to be the latter. This is what we've come to expect from Delphine Dora, who has compiled a diverse discography that includes discs of vocal work, improvisations, and collaborations. All too often we hear the piano used more for percussion than composition: single notes struck, extended, and manipulated like cotton candy. And so it's a true pleasure to hear someone who can really play, as evidenced immediately in "An Ode to Infinity", which includes more notes in 3:13 than most ambient albums include in their entire span. But to be fair, this is not ambient, this is modern composition, the heir apparent to the classical throne, the genre in which jazz and rock often come to let out some steam. "A Stream of Consciousness" is entirely instrumental and entirely solo. Over the course of 50 minutes and 14 tracks, Dora exercises her fingers to an amazing extent, with wave after wave of right-handed textures balanced by left-handed melodies. And yet, it’s not that simple. The left often delves into abstraction as well, wandering into vast fields of wheat-like notes, stretching to touch the tops of the stalks. These pieces are not the kind one hums or strums; instead, one allows the sounds to surround the ears like thousands of fireflies, all blinking at their own frequencies. As befits its title, "A Stream of Consciousness" is an impressionistic work, blurred and blue as the cover image implies. The titles may attempt to attach meaning to the sounds, but they tend to restrict one’s interpretation. Better to use the album as an opportunity for reflection, allowing the notes to direct the thoughts while their echoes provide a cushion. If "I Wish I Could" and "If We..." cause one to feel pangs of regret, so be it; but apart from nomenclature, they are just as likely to inspire holiness or contemplative calm. The tracks grow slightly longer as the album unfolds, as if Dora wants to draw us deeper. Smartly placed at the album’s center, "Obsessions" slows the pace to a swoon. "Freedom Is Not to Be Out of Restraints" flirts with the avant-garde, as sprightly atonal flourishes intimate a barely-controlled madness. Not that Dora is mad; quite the contrary. Instead, the artist is capable of playing different characters, an attribute that serves her well. The hesitations of the aforementioned "I Wish I Could" bear this out, reflecting a simultaneous desire to move forward and to draw back. The seven-minute "Conclusion" stands in start contrast to the rapid pace of the opener; in this piece, even the lonely wooden rustles of the hammers and pedals operate as notes. After reaching for the stars, the song shifts to its second phase, a more earthbound section that seems to leave its aspirations behind until the brightness of its final thirty seconds: a sweet coda to an enchanting album".Richard Allen, A Closer Listen, July 2012 • • • "One's first exposure to "A Stream of Consciousness" might prompt one to think that all of Delphine Dora's recordings have been solo piano collections, but such an assumption would be far wrong. The France-based, classically trained pianist and sometime vocalist has issued a large number of recordings of a broad stylistic character since 2005, some of them collaborations (with Salvatore Borrelli aka Harps of Fuschia Kalmia and Valrie Leclercq aka Half Asleep). Recent projects include an album of piano-and-vocal songs based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (Multitudes), a concept album with Half Asleep featuring songs inspired by fictional characters such as Beckett's Molloy and Zelda Fitzgerald ("You're Not Mad, You're Just Lonely"), and a set of jazz-related improvisations recorded with double-bassist Bruno Duplant and clarinetist Paulo Chagas (Onion Petals As Candle Light). Available in a limited run of fifty, hand-numbered copies, the fifty-minute "A Stream of Consciousness" is very much a homemade recording, though evidence of such is only audible in the creaks and ambient noise that occasionally appear before or after the playing of the pieces themselves. The fourteen settings often feature sparkling cascades and clusters of sound that are so dense, they suggest Dora's used multi-tracking to create the impression of two pianists playing together, though that well may be an illusion perpetrated by her playing style. Typically harmonious in character and impressionistic in design, the pieces encompass many moods, from ruminative ("An Ode to Infinity", "I Wish I Could") and insistent ("Idle Persistence") to fragile ("Fragments of Dreams Are Only Echoes of Memories") and stately ("Obsessions")and in the case of "Conclusion", a plethora of moods in a single setting. An experimental and improvisatory feel characterizes the somewhat bluesy splashes that make up "Freedom Is Not to Be Out of Constraints", but, despite the album title, the material generally creates at least the impression of being formally structured rather than purely the product of stream-of-consciousness playing. Listeners with an appetite for elegant solo piano playing should obviously find Dora's recording much to their liking".textura.org, September 2012 • • • "I'm not quite sure what the aggregate audience for music which falls into the "modern" classical and minimalist genres, but I assume this would include mainly more contemplative types or those in search of a respite from our increasingly Iphone/multimedia/socially mediated world. This new full length album on the relatively new offshoot of the Siren Wire Label entitled "A Stream of Consciousness" allows us to peer into a window of a peculiar subset of outsider classical; an appropriately quiet label releasing limited edition works on the CDr format. While the minimalist tag may bring to mind most often the works of Phillip Glass, this new work by Delphine Dora is certainly no exercise in repetitive simplicity. Instead, the minimal quality is delivered by the strict limitation in the way of use of staccato piano notes, and then again of the note sets themselves. Rather than cyclical melodies per se, instead the melodic content is conveyed in a style more akin to a pointillist portrait. Much of the album indulges luxuriantly in its similarities to a summer rainstorm: the wax and wane of sound density, the tightening and relaxing of note frequency, the plaintive quality of the beauty in simplicity. A few tracks (most notably on "Obsessions") do however charge ahead with traditional melodic structure. I have heretofore been unfamiliar with Dora's work, but I find this piece may yield further secrets in comparison to the preceding albums. This may be a daunting task being that she tends to flit from one obscure label to the next, and also her personal website has not been updated since 2006. Regardless, a definite talent and unique take on a very old (perhaps even... tired) instrument is a refreshing change of pace from uncompromising noise works, the endless mire of mediocre synthesizer drone albums and, overblown technicality (this washed the nasty residue of the newest The Faceless album out of my ears)."Scott W, Musique Machine, August 2012 "Featuring a set of 14 piano based compositions. Beautiful and bewitching, delicate and exploratory, an absolute treat." Composed and recorded by Delphine Dora for piano solo only in July, November and December 2011. Masterised by Dana Hilliot. Originally released on Siren Wire Editions. Limited hand-numbered edition of 50 in a full colour, hand made card sleeve. Released 02 July 2012. tags: acoustic / avant-garde / experimental / minimalism / modern composition / neo classical / piano / solo.