CECILIA’s ‘CHOEUR’: A Transcendent Journey Through Love, Spirituality, and Electronic Mysticism
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CECILIA, a nomadic soul, weaves an existentialist epic through her latest album, “CHOEUR,” traversing different ages on a phantom thread of love, spirituality, desire, and rage. Inhabiting various bodies and characters, both fictional and real, CECILIA channels the poetry of different lives that could have been her own or might have only existed in dreams. Influences from the artists who inspired her appear as tiny fragments, direct quotes, dedications, and spectral presences throughout the album.
The creation of “CHOEUR” predominantly took place around January 2023, during a precarious period in CECILIA’s life. The album was composed in a spontaneous and ritualistic manner, a process somewhat unconventional in electronic music production. These ego-free solo jams, performed in heightened states of consciousness and without an audience, captured the raw wilderness of her emotions. This do-or-die energy funneled into extremely tight arrangements, birthing a collection of fierce and beautiful songs that twist traditional French and Italian songwriting into the inmost recesses of electronic mysticism.
CECILIA’s journey is reminiscent of the transformative paths of artists like Björk and Kate Bush, who similarly push the boundaries of genre and convention. Like these artists, CECILIA strives for the sublime, training her whole body for a paradoxical procedure of disconnection and reconnection. Her work on “CHOEUR” marks a crucial pin in Melissa Gagné’s system of 7-year creative cycles, debuting on Haunter Record and paving the way for a new artistic identity. This album is undeniably a labor of love, deeply rooted in CECILIA’s personal and artistic evolution.
“CHOEUR” is imbued with awe, chants, and ravishment, exploring themes of pain, vision, and the sublime. It prays to the elements—Earth, Water, Stars, Sea—and feels the presence of Spirits, Lightning, Thunder, Dawn, Dusk, Blood, and Flowers. The album invokes a return to grace, embracing the beauty and sadness of a broken heart, open and ecstatic. CECILIA contemplates the wonder of the stars and the questions they inspire, encapsulating these emotions in her music.
The tracks in “CHOEUR” encapsulate a dream-like state, living in a body created by love. The album speaks to the wanderer and the wonderer, evoking the ethereal quality of artists like Enya and the emotional depth of Portishead. CECILIA’s music is a journey through the landscape of her soul, where each song is a step towards understanding the beauty and sadness of existence.
In “CHOEUR,” CECILIA invites listeners into her dream—a space where traditional songwriting meets electronic mysticism, and where the rawness of her emotions is transformed into a sublime auditory experience. This album is a testament to her ability to transcend the ordinary, offering a deeply personal yet universally resonant journey through love, spirituality, and the human experience.
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