Over Mountains, by The Monkey In The Abstract Garden

Over Mountains

by The Monkey In The Abstract Garden

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1.	Hearing Guitar 02:34	buy track
2.	Over Mountains 03:18	buy track
3.	In My Garden 06:03	buy track
4.	Wooden House 07:42	buy track
5.	Littles Ones 03:22	buy track
6.	Sacred Dance 03:40	buy track
7.	Your Wisdom 01:43	buy track
8.	Climatique 04:26	buy track
9.	Unknown Father 06:25	buy track
10.	Joaquim 06:56	buy track
11.	Raindrops 02:05	buy track
12.	Nest 03:12	buy track
13.	Finding Home 06:13	buy track
14.	Territoire Refuge 05:39	buy track
15.	Biosphère 04:54	buy track
16.	Racines 04:05	buy track
17.	My Child 03:35	buy track
18.	Tiers Paysage 03:40	buy track
19.	Anent 06:23	buy track
20.	Invisible Densities 02:54	buy track
21.	Safe Place 04:40	buy track
22.	Orageux 05:44	buy track
23.	Dragonfly 02:43	buy track
24.	A Little Candle 01:56	buy track

about

Before the world comes to a standstill, a little family on top of a tower in a fairy tale castle starts packing. Quickly, we put into the bags, the songbook, the pastels, the drafts of music paper scribbled in all directions, some clothes, books, thoughts, poems, small pebbles picked up, snatches of Chambord... take away the little things of this so majestic place. Panic, tomorrow begins the ‘lockdown’ we must go back somewhere, choose a place where we can hear the birds singing while the world is suspended.

I wrote these songs while listening to the black swifts circling in the sky, chatting with the gardeners and making my voice reverberate among the ancient stones. The words flowed little by little with a few notes on a makeshift piano. A few tears also flowed, from the vulnerability of saying through music, of letting the door to the inner world and emotions open once again, but in such a different way.
To give my voice to the world and to let it fly away, like the migratory birds which unceasingly, over the years, come back to
the places of their anchorage.

To Didier and Aiko

credits

released September 2, 2022

Alexandra Grimal — voice, mini rhodes, small pebbles, reeds, pieces of wood, cymbals, pearls, Tibetan bowl, dried flowers, corn balls, wooden frog, egg

Benjamin Lévy - electronics

Didier et Aiko Aschour — percussions on "A Little Candle"

Recorded by Céline Grangey in the Centre des Arts Numériques in Enghien-les-Bains, February 9 to 11, 2021
Mixed and mastered by Céline Grangey in Pantin in 2021

Alexandra Grimal composed the music in residency in the castle of Chambord in 2020

All texts by Alexandra Grimal except 'Territoire refuge' extract from Manifeste du Tiers-paysage by Gilles Clément, éditions du Commun.

All compositions by Alexandra Grimal, except 'Over Mountains', Wooden House', 'Climatique', 'Nest', 'Territoire Refuge', 'Biosphère', 'Racines', 'Tiers Paysage', 'Invisible Densities', 'Orageux' by Alexandra Grimal and Benjamin Lévy

‘In My Garden’ is dedicated to my adoptive grandmother Gilberte
‘Unknown Father’ is in memory of Roland

Thanks to Didier Aschour, Geneviève Grimal Defradas, Céline Grangey, Yannick Mercoyrol, Mathilde Zambeaux, Fabrice Moonen, Alexandra Fleury, Dominique Roland, Florie Baelen et les équipes du Centre des Arts Numériques d’Enghien-les-Bains, Richard Comte, Martina Catella, Aurélie Martin et François Méline

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Nunc is an independent label dedicated to liberated, open music, centred around the experience of sound in the moment ; a free space for research and collaboration.
Nunc est un Label indépendant dédié aux Musiques Libres réunies autour de l’experience de l’instant et du son;
un espace ouvert de recherche et de partage. ... more

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