Iconoclast French composer and multi-instrumentalist Delphine Dora is set to release her new album ‘l’ineluctable pulsation du temps’ on 13th March via Marionette.
Actively releasing music since the 00s, her remarkable solo and collaborative projects loosely connect the dots scattered across modern classical, folk, ambient, and poetic writing – always seeking new ambitions in terms of her sound.
A suite of keyboard instrumentals that evoke futurism and the transcendental, Dora left behind the chaos of city life for the quiet solitude of a small village in the French countryside, finding herself fully immersed in the present moment and committed to her multi-disciplinary creative practices, savouring the experiences of deep listening in nature and her environment. Drawing from an academic background in Outsider Art and Art Brut, she yearns to express intimate inner dialogues, revealing the beauty of vulnerability through transportive musical passages to the mystical and sublime.
Besides her solo work, she has collaborated with musicians such as Half Asleep, Salvatore Borrelli, Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas, Eloise Decazes (Arlt) and has performed with Lau Nau, James Blackshaw, Baby Dee, Liam Singer, Sophie Cooper, Aine O’Dwyer. She’s also the founder of Wild Silence label.
Delphine Dora ‘l’ineluctable pulsation du temps’
Tracklist:
1. Ubiquité
2. Les heures flottantes
3. La valse du progrès
4. L’accélération inéluctable
5. Les jours liquides
6. Flux
7. Désynchronisation
8. Manquer le temps
9. Immuable changement
10. L’inéluctable pulsation du temps
‘L’inéluctable pulsation du temps’ was composed at a time when Delphine’s life was becoming increasingly busy, marked by relentless touring and concerts unfolding in rapid succession across different places. Written in parallel with L’Inattingible, her most ambitious album, it stands as its instrumental counterpart. The recordings reflect a period of exploration and assimilation of the Nord Electro, an instrument that opened up vast sonic possibilities, particularly for the development of rich polyphonies inspired by repetitive music. The track titles draw inspiration from an essay by Hartmut Rosa on the notions of acceleration and alienation – a reflection that resonates strongly with the pre-covid era right before the quarantine. The album reveals Delphine’s most colourful and rhythmic side, an aural mille-feuille, in total contrast with her previous melancholic vocal works.
On ‘l’inéluctable pulsation du temps,’ Dora sustains atmospheric drone miniatures that form the foundation for flowing, cyclical arpeggios, spiralling into a liminal dream space where the repetitive phrasing of melodies rewards introspective listening. The compositions move through (dis)enchanted landscapes, taking unexpected turns into more haunted terrain, their contours further blurred by Dora’s intuitive articulation and sense of refinement. By mirroring both the acceleration of time and the experience of alienation, Delphine conjures up timeless sonic meditations, rendering the inevitable pulsation of time as something at once mesmerizing and unsettling.
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