microphones in the trees: je suis le petit chevalier
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Friday, March 08, 2013

je suis le petit chevalier


"Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s Dark Morse is an exclusive lost tape inspired by the short story The Angel Esmeralda written by Don Delillo. Following two LPs and bunch of tapes dropped last year, this new output is her most whispering beat orientated material to date. Dark Morse is a tabu hidden at the end of a lost road in the suburbs, a pile of crawling concrete, burried under sub basses, broken rhythms, drunken lullubies for blind dogs. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier whispers here holy encounters with dark shades moving at dawn, hoarse prayers, slum saints and never growing ghosts children." shelter press 

» Sister Jan said, I don’t know.
Of course you know. You know. You saw her.
I don’t know what I saw.
You know. Of course you know. You saw her. »


me gusta pensar que finalmente Félicia hizo realidad mi deseo de componer un disco siguiendo la estela de 'dora' ('the river' ~ space slave editions), una de las canciones más desnudas e hipnóticas del año pasado. mis favoritas, todas, pero sobre todo 'drying in abou dhabi', 'the war' y 'the names' y en especial 'broken drum', sencillamente  preciosa. 'dark morse' es el reverso de 'summer eyes', puro minimalismo y oscuridad, una sinfonía de latidos, percusiones, algún platillo jazz, algún repiqueteo de campana, susurros entre sensuales y tenebrosos y ecos lejanísimos de Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Sylvia Monnier y berberian sound studio. uno de esos discos que te hacen pensar que cierta música electrónica es posiblemente la más capacitada para generar un espacio, para construir una atmósfera, para dibujar una arquitectura acústica. concebida como banda sonora de 'el ángel esmeralda', un libro de mini relatos de Don Delillo, es puro lirismo minimalista. leía hace poco en un artículo sobre un hotel construido en pleno desierto que flotaba como un barco, que los arquitectos habían utilizado la idea tradicional china del 'Zhen', que es, en palabras simples, el arte de la repetición de los mismos elementos. no sé si fluye tanta energía positiva pero para mí 'dark morse' es eso, la repetición obsesiva de un mismo latido variando el ritmo. siempre igual, pero siempre diferente. o, lo que es lo mismo, Félicia acercándose a la esencia de la esencia y siguiendo los mágicos pasos, aunque de manera muy muy oblicua y eliminando cualquier rastro de percusión o voces, de Günter Schlienz. como él, profundiza en la emoción que palpita en los sonidos electrónicos. cuanto más oscura, más luminosa.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

félicia atkinson


"Summer Eyes is a bit lighter than Felicia’s most recent output. the first track starts out with a very recognizable keyboard melody, but slowly turns into a powerful yet friendly sounding drone, with all the elements from the very start still recognizable in there. the second song is an instrumental ~to her standards~ popsong. these two tracks proved nearly impossible to split over two sides of a ten inch. adding more tracks could have damaged the coherence of the ep. so we went for a onesdied 12”.


the artwork, with pictures of an installation made by Félicia during an artist residency in Finland, is printed in gold by the masters at Druckwerkstatt." morc tapes

dos canciones son suficientes para que 'summer eyes' sea mi disco bucólico favorito de Félicia Atkinson ('dora' es un mundo aparte). reconozco que, al ser tantos los discos que publica, muchas veces la doy por sentada y me olvido de que está ahí. hasta que saca algo nuevo y vuelvo a caer rendida. 'a sweet thing' es una miniatura opuesta a la pompa, dura un suspiro pero no puede ser más bonita, tiene una sensibilidad y una dulzura fuera de lo común, un cuento de verano afín a Sunhiilow y 'callings from nowhere' de Gryke Pyje. teclados que revolotean como motas de polvo imitando el sonido de un campanario, la sensación de estar en un bosque, cuando el verano toca a su fin y da la bienvenida al otoño, rodeada de ciervos y búhos parlanchines. y los rayos de sol colándose entre los árboles. 'summer eyes' es un poco más larga e incluso más bonita. el comienzo con esos teclados cien por cien acuáticos y más orgánicos y luminosos de lo habitual en ella me desarman. a partir del minuto 5:20 las notas se deslizan con tacto y extrema delicadeza, me recuerda a la música oriental y a aquellas flautillas que parecían águilas de 'reflections of bliss lake' de Olympus Mons. Félicia siempre lo pone fácil pero esta vez más, graba discos recomendables a ciegas, simplemente deliciosos. seguro que morc tiene toda la razón cuando dice que añadir más canciones dañaría la coherencia de este mini elepé tan mini pero no puedo evitar pensar que diez más serían un regalo. es tan sencillo y perfecto que puede sonar más de cien veces seguidas sin que te des cuenta. me gustaría que a partir de ahora todos los discos de Félicia sonaran así, alternando de vez en cuando con el minimalismo e hipnotismo sin fin de 'a river'... si pudiera ser.

Friday, September 28, 2012

up is a nice place to be


01. the drive ~ jed kurzel
02. xochitl ~ dvvllxns (jon porras)
03. carried by sea ~ pentros
04. revella ~ spires that in the sunset rise
05. future nostalgia ~ former selves
06. painted figures ~ je suis le petit chevalier
07. one for lee ~ valerio cosi
08. a boat ~ x.y.r.
09. jane ~ sam rosenthal
10. baia ~ dick schory's new percussion ensemble
11. barney's world ~ unidiscus (norm chambers)
12. water music bourrée (handel) ~ wendy carlos
13. wässer ~ inoyama land
14arabesque no.1 ~ isao tomita
15. natalie barney's salon ~ julian lynch
16. her smell theme ~ vincent gallo
17. tree 7. kanuka ~ birdcatcher
18. violas ~ berlenga
19. ecstasy waterfall ~ dreamers cloth
20. untitled ~ europa rural
21. 65,000 colourz ~ mt. tjhris 
22. what'llya do what'llya say ~ michael hurley
23. easy rider ~ chris sikelianos
24. no lord is free ~ hiss golden messenger
25. fallin' in love ~ american spring



01. bed time ~ young man
      boy (frenchkiss, 2009)
02. néctar ~ miaux
      étude des têtus (taped sounds, 2012)
03. the last living legend ~ orphan fairytale
      comets comes alive (blackest rainbow, 2012)
04. from a harmonic algorithm ~ laurie spiegel
      unseen worlds (scarlet~infinite series, 1991)
05. kuoleman tappajan kuolema ~ lau nau
      valohiukkanen (fonal, 2012)
06. from sterling to snow ~ ricardo donoso
      assimilating the shadow (digitalis, 2012)
07. beached ~ lee noble
      persona (bridgetown, 2011)
08. celestial gaze ~ raajmahal
      unreleased track (kelippah, 2012)
09. untitled a4 ~ euglossine
      floridian abstract (housecraft, 2012)
10. jungle apparition ~ komodo haunts
      atoll phantasm, split with hobo cubes (hooker vision, 2012)
11. amnesia and comets ~ aloonaluna
      va ~ goldrush II, companion tape (goldrush, 2012)
12. you are the sun ~ inez lightfoot
      three weaving at the well (biological radio, 2012)
13. spacepony ~ bil vermette
      archives I (field studies, 2012)
14. aquasun no.5 ~ paul lemel & eric marving
      aquasun (sylvester music company, 1974)
15. together again ~ gary sloan and clone
      harmonitalk (finders keepers, 1980~2012)
16. front porch rumbling ~ gonzález & steenkiste
      stuffed with the down of the eider (eiderdown, 2012)
17. untitled V ~ poor farm
      drifts along weakley hollow (poor farm editions press, 2012)
18. the hunters ~ john marshall
      unknown, maybe from the documentary 'the hunters'
19. for you ~ jeffrey cain
      for you (raccoon, 1970)
20. faretheewell (fred's tune) ~ fred neil
      fred neil (cap., 1966)
21. main theme ~ bernard herrmann
      taxi driver o.s.t (arista, 1976)
22. chimera ~ pierrot lunaire
      exercise in futility (semata, 2012)
23. morning ~ langsyne
      langsyne (garden of delights, reissue 2012)
24. merry go round ~ j.d. emmanuel
      sound paintings (rain forest music, 1980)
25. tangi tahiti ~ webley edwards
      hawaii calls: exotic instruments vol IV (cap., 1961)
26. constantly collapsing paradise ~ zonotope
      cruising through the hypersphere of resonance (2010)
27. my birthday on iscandar ~ 400 lonely things
      iscandarian sunset~split with transmuteo (rotifer, 2012)
28. cnidarian sunset ~ transmuteo
      iscandarian sunset~split with 400 lonely things (rotifer, 2012)
29. paradise found ~ martin denny
      quiet village (liberty, 1959)
30. lady (fallin' in love) ~ d. wilson
      unreleased album landlocked (cap., 1972)


fotos: lauren wisnewski & casey bunæn
 

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

je suis le petit chevalier


"like a silver stripe on an endless horizon Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s music’s signifying relief. within her minimal dark musings Felicia Atkinsons’ buried some light. It’s not bursting out, but you can catch a glimpse of it if you wait patient enough. so take your time, head towards the horizon and you’ll be rewarded!" sicsic tapes


con un título que dispara la imaginación, 'a guide to the sun' da forma y color a, con permiso de 'tropical malady', mi disco favorito de félicia hasta la fecha, palabras mayores teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de música que ha publicado como félicia atkinson o como je suis le petit chevalier. será por el título, por la portada (un círculo naranja sobre un fondo blanco) pero los efectos, las reverberaciones, las mil y una capas, las estructuras delicadas, los drones atmosféricos y absorbentes, en especial los de painted figures, una montaña rusa con todos esos cambios, me hacen pensar en dos figuras avanzando a través del desierto en el planeta marte, bajo un sol ardiente y cegador que se oculta poco a poco en el horizonte.



sold out ~ bandcamp ~ download

Thursday, February 09, 2012

félicia atkinson


"a wunderkammer limited cassette published by Le Bon Accueil Gallery, Rennes  by Félicia Atkinson. 50 copies.  handmade, pro-dubbed and signed in a wooden box."


en un altar

Thursday, November 03, 2011

following the sun

va ~ following the sun (november 2011)

01. kentucky moonshiner ~ bill staines
02. cantina crawl ~ toby burke
03. baby where you are ~ ted lucas
04. lady with the braid ~ dory previn
05. lady blue ~ trevor swadling
06. the road is hard ~ graham davies
07. south someday ~ edgar wappenhalter
08. sunny california theme ~ michael james tapscott
09. how to collect branches ~ je suis le petit chevalier
10. prizewinning ~ julianna barwick
11. alpine valley shelter point ~ food pyramid
12. sea bed meditation ~ jürgen müller
13. crickets sing for ana maría ~ walter wanderly
14. siberian girls ~ monster rally
15. long time before this ~ jim guthrie, sarah harmer & bry webb
16. voice of god ~ castlemusic & wyrd visions
17. hey moon ~ john maus
18. violet ~ moonshine moonshine
19. stagnant water ~ shipwrecks
20. gardenfull ~ theo angell
21. under the sun ~ mia doi todd
22. wendy bird ~ haley bonar
23. fly eye ~ wizard oz
24. sa sa samoa ~ korallreven with julianna barwick
25. nature is a song ~ sister irene o'connor
26. guaglione ~ marino marini

otro año más, happy birthday maicropóns!

Friday, October 21, 2011

riviere amur


"riviere amur is inez lightfoot + je suis le petit chevalier = jackie mc dowell + félicia atkinson = two wandering foxes running wild together towards invisible lands"

"Bois Flotté is like discovering something unfamiliar through the familiar. An alternate perspective on reality. Side A begins with the familiar sound of the ocean, as meditative chants and slow tonal changes emerge from beneath. Crashing waves decrease in force as if Rivière Amur could calm the most violent of seas. Bells chime in the background, like a hypnotist signaling you in and out of consciousness. Don’t fight it. Forget everything you know and accept this new reality. Approach the world with a naïve eye, as if just born. All knowledge is now a priori. Disassociate objects around you from the names given to them. Focus on the aesthetics: shapes, color, and movement. What do you see? What do you hear? Whispered voices and chirping birds in the background have become nebulous and have fused with the droning soundscape. Familiar sounds have transformed into something new. Something radiant. Don’t fight it. You’re now ready for Side B." half hour handshake

qué ilusión formar parte de un disco tan bonito ^^

Thursday, August 18, 2011

je suis le petit chevalier

"This prolific triple-threat talent (artist, writer and musician) from Belgium has graciously allowed No Kings to handle 42 minutes of her chance operation / intuitive sound collage work, after a myriad of releases on such underground institutions as Digitalis, Stunned, and Kaugummi. “Discovering Mathematics II” is warm, spacious, and immersive, and is treated with the same emphasis on process, openness and relationships between elements as her visual art..." no kings

"Je Suis le Petit Chevalier a.k.a. Félicia Atkinson is in your dreams. Her latest output lies peaceably at rest, with long willowy swathes of synth feedback, barely discernable utterances, saturated synth strings, pan-fried electric guitar treatments, diaphonous kitchen sink clatter--all flooding the long hall of consciousness with a tank of vicks vabor rub and a barrel of absinthe. Be at peace and try not to move too much and you may just start to float up into the ether yourself." impose magazine

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

félicia atkinson

"Félicia Atkinson was stirred to create The Driver after embarking upon a four month trip to the US last Summer. Journeying by car but unable to drive herself, she was thus free to fully appreciate the scenery and became particularly enamoured with the romantic Cascadian landscape of the Pacific Northwest which has proven so inspirational to artists and musicians for generations...

...The Driver is steeped in the atmosphere of the American road trip and can be considered as another faithful entry in a long line of musicians paying homage to the road. Optimistic and sunny in a manner which makes it more reminiscent of Jack Kerouac than Cormac McCarthy, this work is a faultless representation of the romance of travel and will surely stir a longing for adventure in anyone who listens." Adam Williams, Fluid Radio

gus van sant estaría feliz

foto: ryan mcginley

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

inez lightfoot / je suis le petit chevalier

"...from the hush of a winter’s midnight, Inez Lightfoot opens this hour-long ceremony evoking animal powers and seasonal forces of nature. Presiding with the intimacy and strength of a curandera, Inez synchronizes the flow of analog electricity with raw expressions of blood & breath. Captivating as the light of a full moon, this is beautiful hyp-gnosis at an earthen altar. Felicia Atkinson echoes these sentiments with her own brand of mysterious music generation. Performing as Je Suis le Petit Chevalier, Felicia unites the energy of synthesizer with her voice into a brew of humid atmospherics. Every sung line and keyboard pulse is like a pebble dropped onto the still surface of a pond, leaving behind distinct after-impressions yet always giving way to the next entrancing note..." stunned

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

félicia atkinson

"felicia atkinson is a mysterious spirit who resides in brussels by way of paris, and conjures up a world of folk-sound from the depths of despair itself. or is it from the birth of essence itself? wonder and meditation warm your sense of self being." unread records

infant vampire y this impermanent gold, como christina carter, bruce langhorne y the dead texan en uno

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

je suis le petit chevalier

"...if you want to help Japan: I've put all my songs from Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier to download for any price you want: 100 % of the money will go to international red cross!
Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier is collecting psych gems for your shrunken ears. Based in the north of Europe, the lonely knight uses woods, electrics, naked elbows and fire." félicia atkinson

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

je suis le petit chevalier / orphan

"Je suis le petit chevalier is a new psych sound-land-scapes projects by one of our fav kaugummi artist Félicia Atkinson. Orphan is the solo project of Sabarah Polin, from Toronto, Canada.
The A side of the tape is Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier: a long piece made of meditative repetitive guitars and lurking electronic sounds. The B side of the tape is made by Orphan, with two sade tracks : the first one is a storm, the other one is a lull. Two steps of a cataclysm." kaugummi

foto: amanda johnson

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

je suis le petit chevalier

"Je suis le petit chevalier is another project of Felicia Atkinson. Félicia Atkinson is a sound and visual artist, she lives in Brussels, Belgium. Daughters sounds like drifting bodies on fire and ice...soundscapes, vocal sounds."

Sunday, September 26, 2010

je suis le petit chevalier

"From France, living in Belgium, Tropical Malady was recorded during a residency in the United States. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier brings out sounds from Portland Oregon and (oddly enough) Upstate New York. Tropical Malady is a haunting auditorial interpretation of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady; a sound experiment, a ghostly ambience with chant like vocals and echos. Mysterious drone soundscapes and tones set against a television frequency, the motion of the ocean the ebb and flow of emotions" i had an accident

primero charalambides y two-lane blacktop, y ahora félicia atkinson y tropical malady