ATLANTIS ALBUM

DEBORAH LENNIE : VOICE - COMPOSITION FRANCOIS CHESNEL: PIANO - COMPOSITION PATRICE GRENTE : DOUBLEBASS - ELECTRONICS - COMPOSITION https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgluD7T2TOWEIecUm-R6wtA https://atlantis321.bandcamp.com/ In December 2022, Atlantis will record their first album at the renowned studio La Buissonne, near Avignon in the south of France. This is one of the most highly respected recording studios in France, specialising in accoustic music. The album is mainly comprised of Deborah Lennie's compositions based on original texts and english poetry (W.H Auden, Emily Dickinson, E.E Cummings among others) There will also be a few freely rearranged jazz standards. Atlantis was born 2 years ago but the three musicians have been playing together for about 15 years, in various groups with very different styles, from experimental improvisation to jazz, folk and pop, their influences are wide ranging. They will be inviting their long time companion Etienne Ziemniak on drums for a few songs. ALICE after a poem of W.H. Auden Alice is gone and I'm alone Nobody understands Nobody understands How lovely were her fire alarms How fair her german bands Nobody understands Nobody understands Oh how I cried when alice died The day we were to have wed We never had our roasted duck And now she's a, she's a loaf bread Alice is gone Alice is gone At nights I weep I cannot sleep Moonlight to me recalls I never saw her waterfront Nor she my waterfalls Alice is gone Alice is gone And nobody understands nobody understands Down down down she fell Down down down she fell into the bottom of the well Well well well My Alice is gone and I'm, I'm all alone, Nobody understands How lovely were her fire alarms How fair her german bands Alice is gone Alice is gone WHO ARE WE? Here are our CVs to give you a bit of an idea. But better still, have a listen, links below. DEBORAH LENNIE Deborah Lennie was born in New Zealand and grew up in Ausralia. After studying voice and piano at the Conservatorium of Music High School Sydney, she obtained a bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. She then Studied theatre at The Actors' Centre and in 1996 moved permanently to France. She has since worked extensively throughout Europe and the world as a musician and performance artist. In 2011 she founded the performance company FOR WANT OF A BETTER for which she is artistic director today. Their work has toured in France, Norway, Macedonia, Russia and the Ukraine. She has worked in different artsitic fields : as composer, musician and actress for the choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Annie Hanauer; in sound poetry with Sonia Chiambretto, Luc Bénazet and Benoît Casas ; with musicians Patrice Grente, François Chesnel, Jean-Baptiste Julien, Naoto Yamagashi ... with visual artists Christophe Bisson, Fred Hocké, As of 2020 she is associated artist for the Theatre du Champ Exquis, Nationally Conventioned Theatre for the Arts and Youth. https://deborahlennie.bandcamp.com/ https://www.forwantofabetter.com/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BKK8O1hM8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7bZv6N4y6I FRANÇOIS CHESNEL Improvisor and composer, the pianist François Chesnel is recognised for his sensitivity, his precision and his openess. He teaches jazz and improvised music at the Conservatorium of Music, Caen, Normandy (concours de Professeur d'Enseignement Artistique). Over the years he has performed with musicians such as Barry Guy, Andy Sheppard, Louis Sclavis, Yoann Loustalot, Deborah Lennie, Olivier Py, Patrice Grente, Antoine Paganotti, Serge Lazarévitch, Régis Huby, Tore Johansen, Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Christophe Monniot, ... He has worked in jazz, improvised music, and folk, and his projects reflect this diversity : popular and oral traditions with “Sleeper Train / Old and New Songs” et “Folksongs Suite”; american folk with “Verona” and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel, Korean music with “Baeshi Bang”, and as leader of the “Kurt Weill Project” for 10 years. His latest recordings have recieved high critical acclaim : - Chocs Jazz Magazine for “Sleeper Train”, “Old and New Songs” et “Pièces en forme de Flocons” - Jazz Magazine revelation pour “Kurt Weill Project : le Voyant” and “Verona : Cherbourg Peninsula” - "François Chesnel has a deep sense of melodic design, harmonic space and dramatic relief" (F. Bergerot, Jazz Magazine). - " François Chesnel is an open musician, with a very fine touch. " (T. Giard, culturejazz.net), https://francoischesnel.com PATRICE GRENTE Patrice Grente is a doublebassist who has worked in jazz and improvised music for several years. In his personal research, he explores sound as an entity and works with field-recording, electronics, concrete music and sound installations alongside his work as a double bassist. He has worked with visual arts, dance, theatre, sound-poetry, film and performance with artists such as Paul Dunmall, Phil Niblock, Pan Huysen, Jerome Noetinger, Luc Benazet, Deborah Lennie, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Cécile Cappozzo, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Benoit Casas, Franck Enouf, Pierre Millet, Sonia Chiambretto, Fred Hocké, Pascal Le Gall, Guillaume Gargaud, Rémi Dumoulin, Guillaume Bellanger... He is a member and programmer in the musicians' collective Tympan ; is co-founder of the festival "Interstices", Caen, Normandy. In 2010 he co-founded the independant record label Fiasco Records with Etienne Ziemniak. https://petitlabel.com/patrice-grente-etienne-bonhomme http://nunc-nunc.com/carnalisme-de-profundis/ http://www.ayler.com/cecile-cappozzo-quintet-hymne-dautomne.html https://fiasco-records.bandcamp.com/ https://festival-interstice.net/