Lexithimie – Stroll into the Shade for a Moment

‘I began composing this album with the idea to define an area in shadow; I imagined this shaded place to be surrounded by light’…

Because my music has quite an architectural process, I need to be thinking about a peculiar space, moment, or land which inspires me.

The title, “Stroll into the Shade for a Moment”, is extracted from the book “Heart of Darkness” by the English author Joseph Conrad and is a perfect phrase for creating  this environment as an image, the precise image I needed in my mind for creating these sound-works.

The opening track contains a field recording from a walk along a school next to a park in close proximity to where I live in Hackney.  It was a sunny, winter day where the children were coming in masses out of the school to go home.
The recording sounds remind us of an urban environment close to nature; people sharing a moment of happiness and freedom before returning to their home.  From there, the tone changes to describe the color of the room where we feel secure, at ease; having time for yourself out of the sun and under a blanket.

While composing, I was also writing the title of each track as a poem to correspond with these imaginary shades.
They were given an order; a reason for each piece to have a place of significance on this album.

“Stroll into the shade for a moment in despite of horizon,
A silent chamber below waiting somewhere another minute for a never ending.”

Alexis
East London

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Packaged in a 4 panel glossy full-color sleeve and limited to 100 copies.
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All tracks have been written and recorded by Alexis Béchu with the processing of piano, cello, chord organ, digital-recorder, and sine waves.

Photograph by Justin Cooper.

Design by Johnny Utterback.

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