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Jessica Constable and Philippe Gelda have been composing and improvising together since 1991.
Their suites for voice and piano ( or other keyboards) have been performed in venues ranging from jazz clubs to a shepherds cabin. The suites are usually composed with a specific venue in mind.
Philippe Gelda prepares upright piano using everyday objects like beer mats and clothes pegs. These bring out unusual percussive and harmonic qualities which make reference to contempory electronic music or echo the atmospherics of old and battered pianos. Philippe also uses organ and other keyboards.
Jessica Constable sings written texts or stream-of -consciousness lyrics that she uses to explore resonance and texture. She sometimes uses electronic filters, echos and modulation.
Their songs, improvisations and lyrics are usually simple and usually concise. They are edited down until all that's left are The Best and Favourite Bits. They use a lot of repetition, melodies of few notes and few harmonic changes.
Jessica Consatbele and Philippe Gelda -the Vine and Vein Collection
(Hand/Eye) with artwork by Benoit Bonnemaison-Fitte release May 1st 2008
Jessica Constable and Philippe Gelda's Friend Space (Top 11)
Jessica Constable and Philippe Gelda has 181 friends.
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c'est encore bruno de a man & a guitar (dernier commentaire sur votre page)... autre nom autre projet... posez une oreille ou deux sur ma page et dites moi sincèrement ce que vous en pensez... merci beaucoup bruno
hello jessica and philippe! thanks for your request.
ce fut un plaisir de rencontrer jessica avec le trio Eskelin pres de lyon.
Au plaisir de vous revoir.
RYR
Hi! Thanks for finding me. I love your music and the picture of the prepared upright piano in the background is very cool! Just wondering how do you prepare the piano? Cheers :)
just lovely....i'm very much enjoying this, listening to Cold Thing 2 at this moment. you've managed to put haunting and comforting together on this one, no easy feat. thank you again for sharing....
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Love you guys as it overflows