A NIGHT RIDE …
1. Lhasa de Sala – De Cara a la Pared
Nocturne thinking, soulful singing, this song takes me to another dimension.
2. Tom Waits – Hoist that Rag
The music of Tom Waits opens a whole inner theater, where I love wandering.
3. Serge Gainsbourg – Ballade de Melody Nelson
Serge knows it all, there’s always a song to be the soundtrack of your feelings.
4. Isaac Delusion – Pandora’s Box
A key to mental imaginary rides.
5. Shigeru Umebayashi – « 2046 », by Wong Kar wai original soundtrack (rumba / main theme)
Like a hypnosis, where all sounds become colors and turn feelings into images.
6. David Bowie – Im deranged
Outside is my favorite David Bowie album, full of mystery. A mirror to look inside yourself.
7. Radiohead – Nude
Music as a motionless travel, where all’s in your mind.
8. Son lux – Easy
Music is space and time. Here I feel time can be stopped, extended, measured. It’s in our hands.
9. Godspeed you black emperor – Sleep
Inner symphonie, one of the greatest band ever.
10.Jeff Alexander – Come wander with me (from « the brown bunny » soundtrack)
It’s so subtile you can’t make a move, I feel like Alice following the fawn.
Her new single ‘Look at Me I’m a Horse’ is out now
And she is playing London’s Red Gallery in Shoreditch on 17 March
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/french-touch-exhibition-launch-party-with-jack-de-marseilles-ben-osborne-and-cleo-t-tickets-27688039672
Cleo T. – And Then I Saw A Million Skies Ahead (Motor Entertainment)
Feathery, yet contoured vocals in delicate, even fragile chamber pop sketches with a hint of the Nouvelle Vague: “Songs Of Gold & Shadow”, the debut from Parisian musician Cleo T. released in 2013, was as exciting as smart, a record that saw the crackling glamour of yore and a clever, modern production go hand in hand.
And yet this was but a prelude: “And Then I Saw A Million Skies Ahead” is more than music. Much more.
In this multidisciplinary, synesthetic work of art, eleven breathtakingly diverse compositions form the soundtrack for an interactive, integrative experience in which song, dance, painting, analogue instrumentation and digital video art seductively find one another. Art for all one’s senses.
Music
The heart. World music in its finest sense. Musicians from eleven countries meet, as do gospel and Balkan beats, Neo Soul and chanson, tender electronica and French Pop, velvety crooning and fresh funk. For all this, Cleo T., who now lives in Prenzlauer Berg as well as in Paris, has won over another spectacular producer: Following up on John Parish’s work on “Songs Of Gold & Shadow” is Roman Wunderkind Ed Cianfanelli alias Rodion. Like Cleo T., the Bach lover and dance DJ is a Berlin resident by choice and the perfect partner in merging historical musical traditions and the city’s young sound: tabla and oud (by Palestinian musician Adnan Joubran), charango and cello, violin and tango guitar (by Argentinian Tomás Gubitsch), all under the spell of minimal beats.
Poetry and Painting
The Research. Art as a door to our inner temple. For “And Then I Saw A Million Skies Ahead”, Cleo T. found inspiration in poetry and classical painting, between space and time, along the invisible, intangible, yet perceptible ideal and art historical lines from Greek philosopher Plotin to Russian avantgardist Kasimir Sewerinowitsch Malewitsch to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to the great Italian mind Pier Paolo Pasolini, all of whose works informed the concept and find themselves played on in it.
Digital Arts
The vision. The metaphysics of light. Working together with artist Maflohé Passedouet, founder of the Mobilis_Immobilis company, an optical interpretation of Cleo T.’s ideas was created, always in flux, music and movement reflected in light effects and hence made visible and tangible in an interactive choreography reminiscent of bioluminescent phenomena like aurora borealis. Color rush and shadow dance – an invitation to create one’s own light and spread it to make the world a bit brighter.
Performance
The experience. A never-ending work in progress. In an intentional break with a central tradition of the stage, the audience finds itself at the heart of the work of art, a part of the pluri-sensorial experience while projections are being created in real time. Making use of infrared cameras, analyzers, and MAX/MSP software, the performance, mixing electronic and acoustic instruments, singing with spoken words and theater, is transformed from a presentation to an interactive process, with the audience transcending the sensual experience through the lense that is itself. On to a millionfold firmament.
The show, created every time anew in situ, is meant to build bridges between the art world’s conceptual approach and the emotional immediacy of Pop. It will be individually adapted to be performed at selected galeries, museums and other art institutions as well as nightclubs and other more traditional venues.
