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you're not mad, you're just lonely

by delphine dora & half asleep

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in search of pure language 02:57
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from the chapters to the windows 02:22
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and suddenly i remembered my name 04:40
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a song for my loved one 02:35
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now everything is quiet 04:10
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you don't like to be touched, i'll remember that 03:16
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the rupture begins 02:10
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Schreber's waltz 06:05
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body and soul can never be married 03:44
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a sweet lament 02:40
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zelda 04:47
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G. (god asks us) 03:46
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i can't do anything 03:39
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about

You’re not mad, you’re just lonely is a full-length recording from the duo Delphine Dora & Half Asleep. Together, the French and Belgian musicians crafted an album of startling pop songs, with classical, experimental and contemporary influences, taking an obvious pleasure in their collaboration while seeking to push forward the boundaries of their respective universes. For this new project, they spent a week together in Southern France, 5 days of which they dedicated to the composition and recording of the album’s 13 songs. During the session, they invoked the literary spectres of playwright Sarah Kane, writer Janet Frame, famous wife and letter-writer Zelda Fitzgerald, or of Beckett’s fictional character Molloy, making central to their musical peregrinations the theme of mental alienation, a topic they each in their non-music-related lives devoted several years of research to. The result is a spontaneous and somewhat heterogeneous collection of songs centred on piano and vocals that will take the listener to a variety of enchanted, amusing or terrifying places.

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>>> OBSCURE MAG :
« Ces deux musiciennes étaient définitivement faites pour se rencontrer tant leurs univers intimes partagent d’indéniables points communs. Leurs recherches d’harmonies vocales étranges sur un fond musical, minimaliste et sensible ne demandaient qu’à dialoguer, et le résultat est à la hauteur des attentes »

>>> A DECOUVRIR ABSOLUMENT :
"You’re not mad, You’re Just Lonely est avant tout un disque décadent au sens premier du terme, le déclin de la main mise du concept et de la production au profit de la réalisation instinctive, presque animale. En cinq jours les treize morceaux étaient en boite (une hérésie d’employer ce mot pour quelque chose d’aussi libre) et pouvaient rencontrer le monde, ne plus être seuls. Le disque semble nous arriver tout droit d’un manoir, peuplé de fantômes qui peuplent surtout nos têtes. Il pourrait se situer entre le néo réalisme et le cinéma tout en retenu sadique de Alejandro Amenábar pour « Les Autres ». (A Découvrir Absolument)

>>> LIABILITY WEBZINE :
« You’re Not Mad, You’re Just Lonely a beau un caractère cloisonnant il est aussi une porte ouverte sur ce qui nous fait peur. Sorte de beauté primale, ce disque détruit les frontières de la normalité, poussant jusqu’à un territoire trouble mais terriblement envoûtant. Enregistré en peu de temps (cinq jours) You’re Not Mad, Your’e Just Lonely est un joyaux épuré qu’il ne faut pas laisser s’enfuir. »

>>> POP REVUE EXPRESS : « En ce début d’année 2012, sortait un étrange disque né d’une collaboration entre Delphine Dora et le groupe belge Half Asleep, le tout pour le label We Are Unique Records.Une rencontre artistique entre deux univers bien marqués, entre deux styles musicaux originaux et très libres qui laissent beaucoup de place à l’improvisation, aux sonorités et aux bruits ambiants. Résultent de cette rencontre 13 titres étranges, que l’on croirait enregistrés dans un manoir avec comme seuls spectateurs des fantômes (ceux, peut-être, de la dramaturge Sarah Kane ou de l’autobiographe Janet Frame) venus en curieux écouter cette musique faites de piano, de voix, de cris, des craquements, de sonortiés d’instruments divers et harmonieusement assemblés. Ecrit, improvisé et enregistré en 5 jours « You’re not mad, you’re just lonely » est un disque brut et mélancolique, doux et rugueux, saisissant et troublant. Une vraie curiosité pour auditeurs curieux. »

credits

released January 26, 2012

This album was composed/improvised and recorded in Saint-Flour (France) during a five-days session in the summer of 2010.

All songs by valérie leclercq & delphine dora, except track 1 by Dana Hilliot

1. In search of pure language - Extracts from « Contagion » (Brian Evenson); Dana hilliot : music, piano, sounds, electronics (special thanks to Capu !)
2. From the chapters to the window - Half Asleep : words (inspired by janet frame's life and work), piano, vocals; Delphine Dora : vocals
3. And suddenly i remembered my name - extracts from « molloy » (samuel beckett); Half Asleep : guitar, vocals ; Delphine Dora : vocals
4. A song for my loved one - extracts from « 4.48 psychosis » (sarah kane); Delphine Dora : piano, vocals ; half asleep : backing vocals
5. Now everything is quiet - Half Asleep : words, piano, vocals; Delphine Dora : vocals
6. You don’t like to be touched, i’ll remember that - Half Asleep : words, piano, organ, vocals; Delphine Dora: vocals; Jullian Angel : vocals
7. The rupture begins - extracts from « 4.48 psychosis » (Sarah Kane); Half Asleep : vocals, noises; Delphine Dora : vocals, organ, noises
8. Schreber's Waltz - extracts from « memoirs from my nervous illness » (Daniel Paul Schreber); Half Asleep : piano (1st part), vocals; Delphine Dora : piano (1st & 2nd part), vocals; Thomas Boudineau : trombone, vocals ; add. vocals by Lunt & Dana Hilliot
9. Body and soul can never be married - extracts taken « 4.48 psychosis », (Sarah Kane); Half Asleep : vocals, flute; Delphine Dora : vocals
10. A sweet lament - Half Asleep : words, vocals, clarinet; Delphine Dora : vocals, piano
11. Zelda - Half Asleep : words (inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald's life and letters), vocals, organ; Delphine Dora : piano
12. G. (god asks us) - extracts from g.'s letters; Half Asleep : vocals, organ; Delphine Dora : piano, backing vocals
13. I can’t do anything (they’re everywhere) - extracts from the movie “Sybil” (Daniel Petrie); Half Asleep : piano, vocals, noises; Delphine Dora : piano, vocals, noises

All book extracts selected by Delphine Dora

Mix : Dana Hilliot
Mastering : Lunt
Artwork by Claire Dori

We Are Unique Records, 2012.

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Half asleep is the solo project of Belgian musician and singer-songwriter Valérie Leclercq

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