Melaine Dalibert – Infinite Ascent

David Sylvian provided artwork for this recording by pianist Melaine Dalibert on Yuko Zama’s elsewhere label, as well as naming the album itself.

from the elsewhere website:

‘This is French composer/pianist Melaine Dalibert’s fifth solo album since 2015, all featuring his own compositions. This time, the album consists of melodically structured song pieces, an area that Dalibert has been exploring in the last couple of years as a new compositional approach outside his signature algorithmic method of composition. This series of eight short pieces appeal in a new way from his previous music, and shows his maturity as a composer. Dalibert wrote all eight pieces in 2019 and recorded them in December 2019 on a Steinway at the chapel of the Rennes Conservatory where he teaches.

“I wouldn’t have thought it two years ago, but I started to step aside from my algorithmic systems to write very intuitive music, kind of pop-songs. It is surely a transient phase, but it seems to me to be necessary so as not to lock myself into certain procedures. It’s very important for me to feel free to write outside of any academy or tradition.” – Melaine Dalibert
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‘Litanie’, one of the most evocative pieces on this album, was world premiered by Serbian-American Paris-based pianist Ivan Ilić in October 2019 at Bargemusic in NYC.
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The album title ‘Infinite Ascent’ was conceived by David Sylvian who also contributed his artwork for the album cover, in addition to the two album covers of Dalibert’s previous solo CDs ‘Musique pour le lever du jour’ and ‘Cheminant’ on Elsewhere Music, for which he dedicated two other artworks.

“On listening to the album for first time I felt what I’d describe, for want of better terminology, a ‘cosmic expansiveness’. Vibrational waves traversing the universe, a lone satellite, released from earth’s gravitational pull, spinning infinitely into the bright darkness. I ascribed to it a somewhat solitary migration. Not despite, but because of this, I found it a profoundly moving listening experience.” – David Sylvian‘

TRACK INFO

1. Introduction (2:35)
2. Flux / Reflux (5:45)
3. Grasses in Wind (1:39)
4. Lullaby (4:08)
5. Litanie (4:48)
6. Horizon (5:50)
7. Piano Loop (3:25)
8. Song (5:02)

(release date: November 11, 2020)

CREDITS

​all compositions and piano by Melaine Dalibert

recorded by Melaine Dalibert at the chapel of the Rennes Conservatory, in France on December 11, 2019
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mixed and mastered by Taku Unami
artwork by David Sylvian
design by Yuko Zama
produced by Yuko Zama

p+c 2020 elsewhere music