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Dans Les Fleurs de Velours Noir

by En Velours Noir

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  • A prestigious very limited Collectors' Edition in black velvet packaging which offers all what's included in the above mentioned two editions and -moreover- a lot of extra stuff: 1 x poster
    1 x sticker
    3 x post-cards dedicated to A.Piazzolla, W.S.Borroughs and Jean Sablon
    1 x a fourth post-card which includes a shot from a rare A.Crowley's manuscript about "The Green Goddess".

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    Digibox edition, ltd. to 177 copies.

    This more limited edition offers the possibility to get the original cover designed in 1997 as well (the jewel-box edition cover is still included), and it's presented with an elegant black hard-case (14 x 12.5 x 1.8 cm).

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Music by Luigi Maria Mennella. Lyrics by Luigi Maria Mennella and Jacques Prévert.
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"Dans Les Fleurs de Velours Noir" (Mvsa Ermeticka / KHU003)

This long time unpublished piano work never spread in the past whether due to commercial reasons ( those compositions are probably the most severe and refined
created till today by the Author, and matched with lyrics devout to the darkest symbolism ever ); or due to the
bad quality of the first analogic support is now ready to be presented to the listeners in a renewed form.
Totally re-recorded. Once again partially done live (referring to the grand piano), to maintain intact the spontaneity of the Spleen which often pervades him when he freely plays this instrument (for more than 30 years); but on the other hand with an huge sound-work
and post-production, starting from the great duality/dynamics of the sounds, passing over the tested obscure frequencies-processing and some interesting concrète spatial research, up to a totally hand-made sound-effects creation (f.i., let’s think about “La Gelosia”
78rpm vocal simulation!). A pernickety job chiselled with love for culture and hate towards the modern facilities
in music (midi, sequencing, preset filters, etc).
And it’s just the inmost essence of Spleen the main theme of this work, the lives spent under its Aegis, the frail “fleurs de velours noir” never gathered because of the distrust people harbour towards all what is dark and avoids the sun of E<S>soterism.
Close to some Luigi’s poems, he also availed himself with the lyrical contribution of C.Baudelaire, P.Verlaine,
G. Leopardi and A. Crowley.
Moreover, musically enriched with new Chamber / Classical and Free Jazz arrangements, dark ambient contaminations, poetry reading/spoken word and finally
the charming female vocal contribute of Maethelyiah (Artist well-known for her musical projects Blooding Mask and today Ajanuary field)
...the final result which will probably make dumbfounded the usual listeners of EVN music, but which will surely moves this project to the attention of the most sophisticated ones: pure Avant-garde Decadent Musick from the blackest meanders of the synapses.

Seal of this opus is a rich 16 pages booklet which explains with very personal Author's remarks and selected images
the inmost essence of this research album.

credits

released February 1, 2006

All music and lyrics by Luigi Maria Mennella except where otherwise specified.

Musicians on this album:
Luigi M.Mennella (music & male vocals)
Maethelyiah (female vocals)

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in order to give you a small added value (for the collector market, not for the content) all the CDs taken directly from me are autographed.
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Luigi Maria Mennella Italy

Luigi Maria Mennella is a poly-instrumentalist / singer active since the late 80's. He has a very heterogeneous and open- minded training / production and overall artistic activities.
He's the mind and unique performer behind the musical projects F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay, En Velours Noir and Furvus.
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