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CECILIA - Adoration

    • Label /
      Halcyon Veil
      HALC018
    • Released /
      May 2018
    • Style /
      Experimental
    • Comments /
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    • Rating /
      3.5/5
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    CECILIA - Adoration CECILIA - Adoration

    Uneasy listening from the experimental electronic artist Mélissa Gagné.

    CECILIA - Adoration CECILIA encourages an introspective, hallucinatory type of listening. The music of the multidisciplinary artist, real name Mélissa Gagné, is a fragmentary collage of avant-garde cinema, haunted electronics and recited vocals. An online mix she made last year as BABI AUDI is a good example of this sound, where melting percussion and hushed incantations combined with samples of the filmmaker Agnès Varda and the actress Ingrid Bergman.

    Adoration, Gagné's debut album as CECILIA, was inspired by the writer and activist Audre Lorde. In an essay titled The Uses Of The Erotic: The Erotic As Power, Lorde redefined the erotic, so often limited to the pornographic or sexual, as a source of women's personal and political power and a celebration of unexpressed feelings. In Adoration, the "erotic" unfolds through the various voices, track names ("House Of Flesh," "Gros Animal") and the album's title, which, as Gagné explains, "could be pure and innocent," but "could also be fanatic, destructive and blind."

    A collection of female voices forms the album's backbone. Though you'll hear French, English and Italian being spoken, the emotions always come through clearly. A broken-down relationship unravels itself on "Pagliaccio," a track featuring Jasmine Pisapia, a friend of Gagné's, who repeats, "Sei un pagliaccio," ("You are a clown"). "House Of Flesh" is full of irrational chaos and confessional whispers. "I wish I could hold you tight," goes the vocal, "while I spit in your eyes."

    Adoration offers an introspective and disorienting way of listening, and can leave you feeling as if you've accidentally walked into a haunted house. The plucked string melodies in "Descente Ferme" could easily belong to a budget horror film. Yet these sounds sit comfortably inside the album's paranoid electronics. Over time, an unnerving effect builds up that mimics a faltering, but very human, mode of attention: agitated waves of alertness followed by indifferent awareness. It's not an easy listen, but you'll get a lot out of Adoration by spending time with it, preferably alone in a dark room.
    • Published /
      Sun / 8 Jul 2018
    • Words /
      Jo Kali
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    • Tracklist /
      01. Grisélidis
      02. Gros Animal
      03. Pagliaccio
      04. House Of Flesh
      05. Récital (Where Your Money Ends)
      06. Heel Spur
      07. Descente Ferme
      08. Teen Poise
      09. Liber
      10. Martali
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