After having made part of her journey only with her voice and piano, Faustine Seilman recently released her first album entitled “Silent Valley” on the Effervescence label. Carefully composed by the 10 hands of Vincent Dupas (My Name is Nobody/Fordamage), Rachel Langlais (ex-Klaktonclown), Pierre Marolleau (Fordamage) and Jonathan Seilman (This Melodramatic Sauna), this first opus, which travels across the boundaries of genres, gives birth to a music of a measured energy of restraint and explosions.
Coming home from the last year on the road where she crossed paths with some of the most emblematic figures of our time, including Thee Silver Mount Zion, Vic Chesnutt, and Nina Nastasia, Faustine Seilman is back to work with a quartet making a decidedly more electric set. A first tour with this new line-up is scheduled for October 9-19, 2008.
Faustine Seilman has played live with Swell (US), Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band (CAN), Vic Chesnutt & guests (US), Nina Nastasia (US), Alela Diane (US), Moriarty (FR), An Pierlé (BEL), Da Silva (FRA), Micky Green (AU), Syd Matters (FRA), Laetitia Sheriff (FRA), Pillars and Tongues (US), Dark dark Dark (US), Serafina Steer (UK), Nancy Elizabeth (UK), Jenny Hoyston (US), Kania Tieffer (BEL), Ramona Cordova (AU), Thee Stranded Horse (FRA), Belone Quartet (FRA), My Name is Nobody (FRA), This Melodramatic Sauna (FRA), The Patriotic Sunday (FRA), Percevalmusic (FRA), Papier Tigre (FRA), Fordamage (FRA), The Healthy Boy (FRA), Sincabeza (FRA), Brome (FRA), Moon Palace (FRA), Ronan Ronan (FRA), Vale Poher (FRA), Dada Swing (FRA), Resistenz (FRA), Ben Jarry (FRA), Electroplume (FRA), Trafic Sonore (FRA) ...
ALBUMS
FAUSTINE SEILMAN - SILENT VALLEY - FRVsens18 - 2007
12 Tracks CD
Recorded & Mixed by Miguel Constantino at Home,
Mastered by Bruno Green at Silent Masters,
Painting by Adélaïde Gaudéchoux.
“You can’t help but kneel down before the beauty of her piano playing, which owes as much to Satie as it does to Martin Duffy”
"On ne pourra que s'agenouiller devant la beauté de son jeu de piano qui doit autant à Satie qu'à Martin Duffy"
Magic RPM (Gérôme Guibert) - Décembre 2007
“First try, first master stroke.”
"Premier essai, premier coup de maîtresse"
Full Of Sound (Denis Zorgniotti) - Décembre 2007
“a kind of ideal soundtrack for drifting souls”
"...sorte de bande son idéale des âmes à la dérive"
benzinemag.net / ondefixe.net (Benoît Richard) - Décembre 2007
“Caution, the ride may leave indelible traces on sensitive souls.”
"Attention, le trajet risque de laisser des traces indélébiles sur les âmes sensibles"
www.foutraque.com (Pierre Andrieu) - Novembre 2007
"And Faustine Seilman to make a stunning entrance into the big leagues”
"(...) Et Faustine Seilman de faire une entrée fracassante dans la cour des grandes"
trentetroistours.com - Octobre 2007
“A deep and masterful voice a la Cat Power, a few notes on the piano, and the magic is born.”
"Une voix grave et maîtrisée à la Cat Power, quelques notes de piano et la magie agit"
Le Scéno (Angers) - Décembre 2007
“The winter can seep into us. We've just found the music to accompany it."
"L'hiver peut bien se pointer. On vient de trouver la musique qui l'accompagnera"
Wik (Nantes) - Octobre 2007
Vendredi 20 novembre @ Violon Dingue // 20h // 4euros Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie (de la musique avec des jouets anciens, Brest) + Sieur et Dame (Duo freaky folk lyrical espiègle et tourmenté, Nantes)
Dimanche 22 novembre @ Pol'n, rue des Olivettes // 19h // prix libre Marvins Revolt (Math pop à voix, Copenhague) + Grumpf Quartet (trio instru hardcore/noise, Bordeaux/Paris)
