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Délicates, a collection by Charmey

A fox on a rooftop, on an abandoned army facility, just in front of my house. The fox is lazy, he looks happy, heated by the rays of this autumnal sun. This picture inspired me, it was so quiet, so full of wholeness, it was a moment full of delicacy and silence. These pieces were recorded at home, in my studio, on a beautiful felted swiss upright from the 40’s. An upright that sounds like a grand, but with more intimacy and discretion. Tracks were mastered by Balazs Altsach, who is engineer at The Church, London.

Le pays du matin (The country of the morning):

A walk in a forest, with birds twitting, a short walk through the silence of the leaves. This is my attempt to make a reel “two handed piece”, kind of like Chopin first etude.

Mon telephone (My phone):

The phones are our memories today, they contains fragments of video and audio, they contains our lives nowadays, this is a sketch, a fragment from my phone, from my life. Mon telephone begins by a modulation, by a little surprise, like a candy, that is sweet and sour after the first bite. This is my most parisian piece I think, probably caught in my memory from my time in France…Like in a movie from la Nouvelle Vague.

La pensée des autres (Other people thought): What do they think, what do I think of them, who is me, who is them… A kind of prayer on the way to understand the world. It was inspired by my studies in harmony, when I began to master the chorals of the great Johann Sebastian.

Je ne t’aimerai plus demain (I will not love you tomorrow): The most tragical song of this LP, about the end of something beautiful, because everything will always have an end.

La fenetre d’enfance (Childhood window): a reminiscence of a nursery rhyme, mixed with a continuous slight dissonance, something buried in the past, disappearing in ambient pads…

Je marche seul (I walk alone): To be alone today is the greatest luxury of our days, be the master of my own time and place, there is nothing alike this felling. Great fan of Brian Eno, this is my most ambient piece, basically a G major chord, in upper and downer arpeggios.

(Charmey)