Ottoman Violine, by A Gethsémani

Ottoman Violine

by A Gethsémani

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1.	Primavera Cha Cha 05:41	buy track
2.	Alizés ou les mélancolies 03:01	buy track
3.	Bolero qui rit Bolero qui pleure 08:30	buy track
4.	Dernière nuit en Europe 02:47	buy track
5.	Ottoman violine 03:08	buy track
6.	Mosaïque (feat. Sebastian Gandera) 06:26	buy track
7.	Art d'heures 03:20	buy track
8.	Le train siffle et repart... 06:07	buy track

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The title of the last cassette of A Gethsemani, released in 1990, was inspired by a verse by Guillaume Apollinaire: "The lady had a purple ottoman dress" (1909, Alcools). Half of it was recorded in France and finished in Mauritius, where in September 1989 I started the first year of my military service in cooperation.
Ottoman Violine is in the lineage of Poussière d'Eau: the instrumentarium remains the same, and the Mirage sampler is used more; Isabelle Morival, who followed me to Mauritius, is still singing; Sebastian Gandera plays on a track (B2), recorded in Châlons en Champagne.
The texts are borrowed from Charles Baudelaire and Pierre Reverdy.
If there is still no Mauritian influence, it is however there that I met Denis Charrier (another development worker), who composed the cover design, and who will later do that of Pieter Both.
The original tapes, limited to 200 copies, was distributed by FRONT de l'EST and AYAA Disque, who presented the tape in her catalogue as follows: "Sympathetic from the start, the approach of this duo adept at superimposing suave melodies and electronic extravagances becomes fascinating with Ottoman Violine".
Bernard Odot, May 2020

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released July 6, 1990

Instruments (DX7, Mirage, harmonium, drum machine, clarinet, percussions) & Voice: Bernard Odot
Voice: Isabelle Morival
Solo keyboard on Mosaïque: Sebastian Gandera
Mixed By – Bernard Odot
Graphic design of the cover: Denis Charrier

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A Gethsémani Paris, France

In 1986, I started to record alone, with a four-track cassette of melodic pieces with dark atmospheres.
The first thing I had to do was to choose a name, so my curiosity for religion and my aesthetic tastes led me to Gethsemane, a biblical name evoking both the threat and the appeasement that the night brings. ... more

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