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You're not mad, you're just lonely

by Half Asleep & Delphine Dora

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Let the silence enter in is the role of the object Speaking of cycling, what a relief Unfortunately, this is not what it is, but of her that gave me the day by the ass And suddenly, I remembered my name, Molloy, My name Molloy It's the name of Her mom Molloy, I say, my name is Molloy And your mother? What's Her Name? We realize of course, this is not the self that is dead, all other So we get up, and we went to her mother who feels alive We'll have now to come out from this sort of gap It was so long that I lived far from the words You see, i was enough to see my city Since this is my city, not to be able, you understand You understand that all I needed to see my town for example cause this is my city The sensation of my body was enveloped in anonymity often difficult to penetrate, We just see what I see, I know what the words know and dead things and it makes a pretty small sum With a beginning, a middle and an end, as in well-built sentences We invent nothing, we believe to invent, to escape, It is only stammer his lesson, snatches of a chore learned and forgotten, life without tears, as we weep And the thing ruined, I do not know what it was, nor, consequently, if not less than the ruins unshakeable confusion of things eternal In any case, a link without mystery, magic
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A song for my loved one, touching her absence The flux of her heart, the splash of her smile In ten years time she’ll still be dead When i’m living with it, dealing with it, When a few days pass when i don’t even Think of it, she’ll still be dead When i’m an old lady living in the street forgetting my name She’ll still be dead, she’ll still be dead Fucking over and i must stand alone My love, my love, why have you forsaken me? She is the couching place where i never shall lie And there’s no meaning to life in the light of my loss Built to be lonely To love the absent Find me Find me Free me From this Corrosive doubt Futile despair Horror in repose The vital need for which I would die breakdown
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One day, they started to whisper back at me One day, they started to whisper things back at me I couldn’t believe the ground, its sweet lament dissolving I couldn’t believe the Tong that once spoke so eloquently The great turmoil of voices weakening rapidly The great hymn of the living fading into murmurs hush hush hush I kept my composure Hush hush hush A nod or a whisper The only remaining kind of Answer We once possessed the Verb, and how possessed we were! Filled with chords of joy that had us dance anywhere How we clamoured for more! in the most dissonant way How we resonated! Feverish at the gates But hush hush hush Let’s keep our composure Hush hush hush A nod or a whisper The only remaining kind of Answer Now everything is quiet and I thought I was the speechless one The only one whose voice never more raised in command Marked by the sciences of men – loud as children In a festival of growls, the most involuntary pocket of resistance Now everything is quiet and we moan our unfamiliar sentence With words drained of sound, only hard shells spoken If this is the final shutdown, dear friends, at least we’re alike now In sickness and in health, all equal in silence
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Zelda 04:46
Dear love, I seem to harp on one string Since that afternoon when they came With the order to lock things in Like myself and other things A sentinel would have rang the bell, Asked for a quick repentance But you just leaned to my ear and said: Don’t oppose resistance Oh I didn’t Oh I did Oh I didn’t Oh I did resist Come to visit Be a witness of my decaying Oh do come! I insist And see the state I’m in I’ve failed our symmetry And you’ve failed me Now if half a human being Ruins of a once cherished body Were to crumble at your feet Would you give ‘em instantly Your hand, your blood, liquored and guilty? Dear love, I remember When we danced in the luminous breeze (light morning) Fragrances from last summer Then to your growing apathy, Without a fight you surrendered By oversight, abandoned me To a thousand voices that wavered Oh I couldn’t Oh I’ve tried Oh I couldn’t Oh I’ve tried to resist Come to visit Be a witness of my decomposing Oh do come! I insist And see the state I’m in I’ve failed our symmetry and you’ve failed me
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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 the piano and vocal, and 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

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
Composed/improvised and recorded in 5 days in july 2010 by Half Asleep & Delphine Dora
Mix : Dana Hilliot
Mastering : Lunt
Artwork : Claire Dori

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Delphine Dora est une musicienne, compositrice, improvisatrice de France. Sa musique iconoclaste peut se lire comme un travail de cartographie personnel, basée sur une approche intuitive de la composition et nourrie de nombreuses approches. Elle développe depuis une dizaine d’années un univers musical intimiste et pluriel, en perpétuel métamorphose situé au croisement de différents genres musicaux ... more

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