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Delphine Dora
12+ albums
free folkexperimentalAvant-Gardefolkimprovisation
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Delphine Dora (born in Paris in 1980) is a French musician, composer, improviser, pianist and multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist. She founded and runs Wild Silence record label. She has recorded as Eloïse Decazes & Delphine Dora. Having accompanied Dana Hilliot twice (" I was a rabbit and i won " (Another Record - 2004) and "Misfit" (Greed Recordings - 2006), Dora released a the albums "Floating Existence" in 2005 and "Blablabla" (Abaton Book Company) in 2006. She offers piano improvisation, developing an imaginary and dreamlike language. For her album "Blablabla", she collaborated with Valérie Leclercq (aka Half Asleep / We are Unique Records) and Jullian Angel (Another Record). During three days of improvisation, music was created that calls to mind Max Richter, Charalambides or Animal Collective. Composed and interpreted in a brilliant urgency, the 22 songs of " We're all of this " are as an ode to spontaneity. Around the piano and the interweaving playfulness of feminine and masculine voices, be they whispered, chanted, shouted, spoken or actually sung, one can also hear traditional instruments, music box, glockenspiel, DIY percussions and bluesy, dry guitars. Hymns to fragility (" For other places ", " Lovely places "), introspective slam with a charming outmoded flavour (" Free people ", " Puzzle inside "), postmodern cabaret (" Something about the world "), tribal unbridled atmospheres ("Balalaïka song ", "Big mess"), minimalism favourable to confidence (" But l
