Born in 1980 (Paris-France), Delphine Dora is a french artist, who learned the piano (classical background) as a child for 9 years (from 6 years old to 15). She started to do music again at the age of 24, concentrating to record her own stuff, more spontaneously: free-form songs, in an imaginary and oniric langage, exploring the many possibilities of piano and voice expression.
A diva of piano improvisation and atypical personality, she unveils her hints of lunacy through often short but sometimes endless pieces, always crowded with ghostly characters, gestures filled with grace, and shizophrenic voices which cannot let anybody feel indifferent. Apart the piano (her main instrument of predilection), she also plays a whole array of instruments including harmonium, harpsichord, keyboards, organ, percussions, vibraphone, glockenspiel in different recordings...
Inpired by outsider art, performance, action painting, some female contemporary photography, some avant-garde research, improvisations, all differents kinds of music (classical piano, folk, pop, psychedelic, baroque, avant-garde, outsider, free jazz, world, and some contemporary music..), she distills sounds and graphic works that are closer to performance than composition, grasping tightly the fragility and the disquiet of the discovery of oneself, in its rawest expression.
After having published her first works in the “Musics in margins” series of Another record in 2005, this underground activist graces us her intimacy, with these collections of very short piano pieces ("floating existence" (2005-Another Record), "confusion of myself" (2005- Greed Recordings), "blablabla" (2006- Abaton Book Company)), put to tape using a fairly DIY technique with an old tape machine, hence the lovely background hiss, with voices using a language only she knows thus opening the gates of our imagination. In 2005, she released also a free experimental ep "for christmas" made of keyboards and vocal experimentations.
Having accompanied Dana Hilliot on his first two LPs, she released a collaborative album of improvisations and instant compositions "we're all of this" (2007-Greed Recordings) around her piano pieces and all sorts with her friends Valérie Leclercq aka Half Asleep (We are Unique Records) and Jullian Angel (Another Record). It's her most achieved and varied release to date. She released also the same year, an album of avant-garde-piano and improvised songs, in her collaborated project Dora'li "Saeglin" (2007-Young Girls Records) with her friend 'Li (Aurélie, the ex-singer of the "cult" french noise band Gina Artworth).
You can hear many of these recordings for free download, thanks to the Creative Commoun Licence on archive.org.
grand merci auditrice absolument séduite, par l'univers créé et par la voix merci aussi pour la richesse des liens sur le site http://www.delphinedora.com/
Merci d'avoir accepté. Ton univers semble si proche de celui de Half Asleep que je viens de découvrir avec enchantement. Il y a un petit côté mystique étonnant.
Thankyou so much! Wow, did you hear the Portugal Cd from last year with the silver hand made cover? I didn´t hear it yet..can´t wait. I´m recording again trying to finish some songs so forgive my delay in sending you those Cds.
Si sensible ta musique... Vraiment très très beau, ça me prend aux tripes moi et au coeur aussi... C'est tout petit, tout aigu, mais c'est ravageur, puissant et grave... Un beau paradoxe!!! Bravo!!
Bonjour Delphine, merci d'avoir accepté, pensant à francesca Woodman, j'ai écrit CONTACT-PAGE,on peut l'écouter sur la page fictionsintimes. Dommage que nous sommes si éloignés, j'aurais vraiment plaisir d'essayer quelque chose avec vous et votre harmonium, ça m'intéresse... Hervé.
hello sweetie! merci pour le rappel, qui tombe a pic puisqu'une nouvelle fournee devrait etre mise en ligne le 21 de ce mois ci; avant de s'en retourner hiberner pour un an, probablement :-) disons que l'encre s'evapore de la plume, un peu l'impression de radoter et resservir les memes mots/maux et force est de reconnaitre que je deviens moins aventureux et musicophage avec le temps 9entre les demenagements, le grand amour et le boulot a plein temps plus qu'a pleines tempes, ca devient aussi moins evident de concillier tout ca)... mais bon, vedremmo... j'etais agreablement surpris de voir une pubs pour ton cd dans le "wire" garde ta force et ta fragilite intactes, multibiz
