LOVE
BY JE SUIS LE PETIT CHEVALIER
from the L.P " L'ENFANT SAUVAGE"
NOW on AGUIRRE
www.aguirrecords.com
"Felicia Atkinson has cropped up on a number of releases for Home Normal, Hibernate and others throughout 2011, but saved her most involving work for this Aguirre side as Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier. The French/Belgian artist places herself in the midst of the forestdrone set - think Grouper, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Ekin Fil - with 'L'Enfant Sauvage', summoning two improvised sides of bleak ambience, veiled vocalising and creepy drones inspired by "her travels and her night visions."
If we're going to try and distinguish the two sides, the first feels more arcane and unheimlich, almost reminding of parts from Julia Holter's 'Tragedy' but with a trippier attention to spatial detail; stray Techno rhythms clank in the distance and the encroaching drone layers accumulate with the quality of sheet ice forming on a lake until a full scale blizzard remorselessly takes hold. By contrast the other side is a bleak aftermath, snow-laden surfaces dampening her plangent, swirling drones which still somehow find the energy from weak mid-winter light to grow into a Barn Owl-esque synth and guitar shimmer. "
boomkat
from
L'Enfant Sauvage,
released November 1, 2011
aguirre, felicia atkinson, je suis le petit chevalier