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Standout début album of dream-like electronics and avant garde collage that properly introduces Rome-based Montreal artist CECILIA after guesting on Rabit’s Les Fleurs Du Mal album last year. Devastatingly restrained yet ravishing songs in haunting English, French and Italian vocals, huge recommendation if you're into Yves Tumor, Rabit, Teresa Winter, Portishead, Leila.  Cecilia wrote and produced Adoration, with accompaniment by mutual spirits such as her friend Jasmine Pisapia and the poet activist Griséldis Réal, who help to render a stark yet subtly gilded cross-section of her psyche, which places the listener as dark interpreter to a series of tumultuous inner dialogues - “One is summoned to whisper truth, beauty, tragedy to demon ears.”  Incubated for one and half years between Montreal, Toronto and New York, Adoration reads like intimately diaristic pages recalling an amorphous lucid dream. In that phantasmagoric headspace she meditates on loss and romanticism, using a shifting backdrop of highly visual stimuli to frame her thoughts and bring them to life with an uncannily immersive effect perhaps not felt so strongly since Félicia Atkinson’s Hand In Hand LP.  Electronic bass and percussion are shadowed with traces of synth and guitar improvisations, but the one consistent element is the female voice. Sometime detached, glossolalic, and at others uncannily familiar, plaintive, the voice’s presence is integral to the album's quietly absorbing atmosphere, and even if the listener can’t understand their direct meaning, they connote so much more through abstracted inference and ambiguity.  Following her early forays...

MP3 $9.90

05/04/2018 5060165484041 

HALC018 


FLAC $11.99

05/04/2018 5060165484041 

HALC018