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BAND/ARTIST: Dominique Dalcan
- Title: Last Night a Woman Saved My Life
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Ostinato Ltd.
- Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Arabic
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 44 min
- Total Size: 290; 519 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Ten female voices, remarkable for their tone, their personality, their pen and wordsmithery. The strength they show to evolve in a patriarchal world, reluctant to let them have their voices. “I often work with women," says Dominique Dalcan,"they're a source of inspiration and lucidity. They unlock things in within me allowing to go forward. Linking and binding. The desire to be among others is what's lacking in today's society," he says.
Far from being Dominique Dalcan's first collaboration, he crossed paths with Japanese
composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, French singer Camille, international designer Matali Crasset, British remixers Autreche, Belgian golden globe award-winning film director Alain Berliner, and many more.
For over three decades, he has established himself as a free-spirited performer on the French music scene.
His blend of organic and the synthetic sounds carved him his place under the sun of French Touch’ golden age, under the name Snooze.
Then, tightening his focus on the “Temperance” project, he earned a Victoire in the electronic music category in 2018 (French Grammy).
Already wandering through the concept of territory, building a bridge between nature and technology, the album was about “the fear of stagnation and unwillingness to seek oneself further of musicians”, and the need to “keep some kind of candid soul while challenging your perceptions”. The result is a body of work as varied as its audience. Far from resting on his laurels, he then adds sound installations to his body of work.
In 2020, he presented the multi-dimensional creation "Last Night a Woman Saved My Life" at the Centquatre Paris art venue. Displaying Lebanese women recount their daily lives, their hopes and dreams, conversing with a patchwork of oriental sounds composed by Dominique Dalcan. He uses the lovely term "personal folklore". And rightly so: he was born in Beirut in 1967.
Since then, Dominique Dalcan has established himself as curious and nomadic artist, and this new album is a further demonstration of that. Here, the common thread is twofold. Beyond exploring his roots, this work questions the multiple possibilities of territories, including his own imaginary landscape.
“One always tries to know when one comes from, but when in exile, instability remains because home is nowhere to be found. And when returning to the native land, nothing is the same”.
These thought processes were late in coming, at least on a conscious level. He now pays tribute to these “so far away so close” culture and sounds from his childhood.
The result is autobiographical by nature, making women the central focus, in an attempt to look for his mother’s voice among all this. Dominique Dalcan has been adopted as a newborn. He is now creating a female soundscape of these lands.
Last Night a Woman Saved My Life: a title that resonates beyond wordplay and simple reference. Women are the future of men. Facing such a chaotic world, music escapes conflict, its gathering and bonding qualities fly high above human experience. Overcoming distances of all kind, these powerful female voices land perfectly on Dominique Dalcan’s music to create a unique space of shared experience and freedom.
The Algerian diva Souad Massi, the Syrian jazz girl Lynn Adib and Persian singers Parisa & Rezvan Zahedi, sometimes overcoming distances or technical difficulties by recording vocal notes on their phones, they manage to communicate their powerful inner visions.
Also collaborating on the record are Dina El Wedidi, a star in her motherland of Egypt,
as well as Tunisian citharist and vocalist Hend Zouari. Introducing as well the promising young Sudanese singer Sulafa Elyas, the brilliant Franco-Syrian flautist Naïssam Jalal, and one of Morocco's finest vocalists Meryem Aboulouafa. Not forgetting Dominique's compatriot Yara Lapidus and Bernadette Yammine, who cultivates Arabo-Andalusian music made in Lebanon.
Are we talking to a person here? A country? it’s not always clear, and that's a good thing. While the lyrics are metaphorically rich, the musical structure stretches from the organic nature of the vocals to the synthetic sounds.
From western minimalism to eastern lyricism. "Neither hi-fi nor lo-fi, just contemporary", sums up its author, aiming to challenge the traditional oriental music framework, making eleven tracks of pure solar pop music, using the hypnotic nature of instruments such as oud and qanun.
Originally a musical object, "Last Night a Woman Saved My Life" expands into a multi-media project (video installation, cultural mediation, etc).
“It's not political, or else that's all it is... that's not the debate to be had here” simply says Dominique Dalcan.
This record is a soft healing process made of makeshift frontiers, subliminal cultural heritage inviting intimacy with things bigger than us. It’s above all, a confluence of stellar and unique singers and musicians, all meeting in the instant of these songs.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Dominique Dalcan - Loin de ma terre (3:19)
1.02 - Dominique Dalcan - Un lien entre nous (4:21)
1.03 - Dominique Dalcan - Les trésors que j'ai en moi (3:35)
1.04 - Dominique Dalcan - Mon coeur est solitaire (4:03)
1.05 - Dominique Dalcan - Salam qui veut dire paix (3:36)
1.06 - Dominique Dalcan - L'oiseau dans la vallée (3:58)
1.07 - Dominique Dalcan - J'irai partout (5:16)
1.08 - Dominique Dalcan - Ce matin, quelques gouttes de pluie sont tombées (3:57)
1.09 - Dominique Dalcan - Je serai là pour toi (3:40)
1.10 - Dominique Dalcan - J'entends ta voix (4:52)
1.11 - Dominique Dalcan - Au creux de ta main (4:22)
Far from being Dominique Dalcan's first collaboration, he crossed paths with Japanese
composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, French singer Camille, international designer Matali Crasset, British remixers Autreche, Belgian golden globe award-winning film director Alain Berliner, and many more.
For over three decades, he has established himself as a free-spirited performer on the French music scene.
His blend of organic and the synthetic sounds carved him his place under the sun of French Touch’ golden age, under the name Snooze.
Then, tightening his focus on the “Temperance” project, he earned a Victoire in the electronic music category in 2018 (French Grammy).
Already wandering through the concept of territory, building a bridge between nature and technology, the album was about “the fear of stagnation and unwillingness to seek oneself further of musicians”, and the need to “keep some kind of candid soul while challenging your perceptions”. The result is a body of work as varied as its audience. Far from resting on his laurels, he then adds sound installations to his body of work.
In 2020, he presented the multi-dimensional creation "Last Night a Woman Saved My Life" at the Centquatre Paris art venue. Displaying Lebanese women recount their daily lives, their hopes and dreams, conversing with a patchwork of oriental sounds composed by Dominique Dalcan. He uses the lovely term "personal folklore". And rightly so: he was born in Beirut in 1967.
Since then, Dominique Dalcan has established himself as curious and nomadic artist, and this new album is a further demonstration of that. Here, the common thread is twofold. Beyond exploring his roots, this work questions the multiple possibilities of territories, including his own imaginary landscape.
“One always tries to know when one comes from, but when in exile, instability remains because home is nowhere to be found. And when returning to the native land, nothing is the same”.
These thought processes were late in coming, at least on a conscious level. He now pays tribute to these “so far away so close” culture and sounds from his childhood.
The result is autobiographical by nature, making women the central focus, in an attempt to look for his mother’s voice among all this. Dominique Dalcan has been adopted as a newborn. He is now creating a female soundscape of these lands.
Last Night a Woman Saved My Life: a title that resonates beyond wordplay and simple reference. Women are the future of men. Facing such a chaotic world, music escapes conflict, its gathering and bonding qualities fly high above human experience. Overcoming distances of all kind, these powerful female voices land perfectly on Dominique Dalcan’s music to create a unique space of shared experience and freedom.
The Algerian diva Souad Massi, the Syrian jazz girl Lynn Adib and Persian singers Parisa & Rezvan Zahedi, sometimes overcoming distances or technical difficulties by recording vocal notes on their phones, they manage to communicate their powerful inner visions.
Also collaborating on the record are Dina El Wedidi, a star in her motherland of Egypt,
as well as Tunisian citharist and vocalist Hend Zouari. Introducing as well the promising young Sudanese singer Sulafa Elyas, the brilliant Franco-Syrian flautist Naïssam Jalal, and one of Morocco's finest vocalists Meryem Aboulouafa. Not forgetting Dominique's compatriot Yara Lapidus and Bernadette Yammine, who cultivates Arabo-Andalusian music made in Lebanon.
Are we talking to a person here? A country? it’s not always clear, and that's a good thing. While the lyrics are metaphorically rich, the musical structure stretches from the organic nature of the vocals to the synthetic sounds.
From western minimalism to eastern lyricism. "Neither hi-fi nor lo-fi, just contemporary", sums up its author, aiming to challenge the traditional oriental music framework, making eleven tracks of pure solar pop music, using the hypnotic nature of instruments such as oud and qanun.
Originally a musical object, "Last Night a Woman Saved My Life" expands into a multi-media project (video installation, cultural mediation, etc).
“It's not political, or else that's all it is... that's not the debate to be had here” simply says Dominique Dalcan.
This record is a soft healing process made of makeshift frontiers, subliminal cultural heritage inviting intimacy with things bigger than us. It’s above all, a confluence of stellar and unique singers and musicians, all meeting in the instant of these songs.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Dominique Dalcan - Loin de ma terre (3:19)
1.02 - Dominique Dalcan - Un lien entre nous (4:21)
1.03 - Dominique Dalcan - Les trésors que j'ai en moi (3:35)
1.04 - Dominique Dalcan - Mon coeur est solitaire (4:03)
1.05 - Dominique Dalcan - Salam qui veut dire paix (3:36)
1.06 - Dominique Dalcan - L'oiseau dans la vallée (3:58)
1.07 - Dominique Dalcan - J'irai partout (5:16)
1.08 - Dominique Dalcan - Ce matin, quelques gouttes de pluie sont tombées (3:57)
1.09 - Dominique Dalcan - Je serai là pour toi (3:40)
1.10 - Dominique Dalcan - J'entends ta voix (4:52)
1.11 - Dominique Dalcan - Au creux de ta main (4:22)
Year 2023 | Pop | World | Arabic / موسيقى عربية | Electronic | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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