Elvy Jean
Music for obscure sorrows
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Ozurie (feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have)
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Silience (the brilliant artistry hidden all around you)
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Sonder (the awareness that everyone has a story)
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Vemödalen (the fear that originality is no longer possible)
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Chthosis (the awareness of how little we really know)
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Ambedo (a momentary trance of emotional clarity)
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Nodus Tollens (the sense that your life doesn’t fit into a story)
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Yu yi (the longing to feel things intensely again)
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Maru mori (the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things)
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Anemoia (nostalgia for a time you never experienced)
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Alazia (the fear that you’re no longer able to change)
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Opia (the ambiguous intensity of eye contact)
Titles after the book "dictionnary of obscure sorrows" by John Koenig. Piano solo
The complete sheet music is available on demand (included : IOWA, Poor Mitia)
Bring me back home (2024)
Originally there was an album called "Defiance" with only very lo-fi guitar/voice recordings.
Some songs deserved a better outlet, so there came this little homemade album.
Elvy Jean : everything
Sergei Volkov : cover painting
Lyrics for "After all these years" by Doug Alford
Ad astra (per alas porci) (2023)
Rework on old songs to fix them in the better way possible.
"Pigasus" is a pun used by John Steinbeck writing alongside the latin motto : "to the stars on the wings of a pig"
"Don't shake me, I'm full of tears" comes from the last words Henri Calet wrote before he died :
"It's on my heart's skin that you'll find wrinkles. Is it already time to leave each other? Don't shake me, I'm full of tears"
Elvy Jean : everything
Racquel Morgan : cover painting
Iowa (2023)
In 2018, Elvy Jean met Arnaud Ghilain, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer, with whom he collaborated for more professional recordings of his guitar/piano/voice material. Arnaud added bass (or double bass) and some synths. These episodic recordings led in 2022 to enough songs to make up an album. Arnaud shared the mixing process with a close friend from Quebec, Dominique Massicotte. The Australian Cefe Flynn mastered the album.
Other participants chimed in, such as the actress Christelle Cornil on backing vocals and Hendrik van Wagensveld on the piano for the title « Solitude ».
Elvy Jean : songwriting, voice, piano, guitar, harmonium
Arnaud Ghilain : recording, mixing, bass,
double bass, synths, arrangements, cover painting
Dominique Massicotte : mixing
Cefe Flynn : mastering
Christelle Cornil : backing vocals
Hendrik van Wagensveld : piano on « Solitude »
