Biography
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with NY-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma for Comme un seul narcisse (SP070), their first collaborative effort recorded between NYC and the Alps. It is an epistolar conversation of post-modern times between Cantu-Ledesma and Atkinson, who – strangely enough – only met "in real" once in San Francisco back in 2009. But the record is also a detour. While Cantu-Ledesma released the haunting A Year With 13 Moons (Mexican Summer, 2015) and Atkinson her most intimate effort to date with A Readymade Ceremony (Shelter Press, 2015), their combined music sounds like everything but their recent records, filling the gaps between their solo outputs.
From the subways of NYC to the crooked trails of the Alps, the two musicians have exchanged fragments of sounds, melodies, composing and building together a new landscape, neither bucolic or urban, a bit aside from nomenclatures or postcard-type aprehension of a site-specific recording. Here there's no specific site but a construction build from eterogenous elements brought together, in a virtual ecosystem.
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The title of the record and the tracks are inherited from Susan Sontag's On Photography quoting Baudelaire: the flaneur sees himself in the documents and medias he uses and intergrates to his own perception, the act of recording becomes again an act of feeling.
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