Alice - L'Oiseau Magnifique '2023

Tracks list

Les Disques Bongo Joe are pleased to announce the new album of Alice ! After a
first release on tape with Ripopée, the Geneva-based trio strikes back with
L'Oiseau Magnifique, a playful and poignant blend of intricate harmony and
storytelling lyricism. The project is awaited February 3rd, but you can already
download the full album. Follow the link bellow !

Armed with a thrift-store synth, bizarre wit and arresting vocals, the
intergenerational, all-female micro-choir Alice releases a mammoth 23 track
album. Alice’s music subverts French and Occitan folk music to create a
unique sound that combines art-pop, folk song vocals and synth experiments.

Formed in 2018, Alice is the brainchild of artists Lisa Harder, Yvonne Harder,
and Sarah André. The group draws on their experience of intuitive singing at
home and with friends and family, as well as Yvonne and Lisa’s history of
performance in choirs and Sarah’s storytelling career as an author of
graphic novels. With mother and daughter Yvonne and Lisa playing the keyboard in
unison and all three of them singing along with intuitively harmonised words,
Alice’s music produces a choral polyphony from just three voices, while
sharp lyrics reflect on universal emotions and the poignant moments of their
everyday lives alike.

Each track on the record is a document of a moment or experience in the past
year of Alice’s lives, traversing the humourous story of ending up at a
disappointing party on La Fête Nulle, to the foot-stomping hand claps of La
Décapotable, which drily comments on people who cruise the highway in a
convertible and try to pretend they are having fun, and the multiplying word
associations of Fil à Recoudre, which plays as a tribute to the unfailingly
optimistic people who will let you know there’s no such thing as bad
weather.

Exploring the new spaces that this shared creativity has unearthed, Alice
creates beguiling music from the humble origins of just voice and keys. In their
minimal combination, the trio produces everything from the neoclassical funereal
dirge of Petit et Gris, to the soaring melodic melancholia of Oiseaux
Magnifique, and the 20-second chanted crescendo of La Lune. Theirs is a singular
sound that momentary experiences and their stays with you – songs that
you of their crystalline vocal power and delves deep into the beauty of
underlying emotions. It is one that will want to play again and again.



1.01 - Alice - Que coule l’eau (2:07)
1.02 - Alice - Triste et tout seul (1:10)
1.03 - Alice - Un oiseau magnifique (2:48)
1.04 - Alice - Nous marchons (2:54)
1.05 - Alice - Pense à moi (2:33)
1.06 - Alice - Pas très sur (0:24)
1.07 - Alice - Tout ce boulot (0:28)
1.08 - Alice - Petit et gris (1:50)
1.09 - Alice - Jesus Christ (1:16)
1.10 - Alice - Le caillou (3:59)
1.11 - Alice - Petit elfe (0:47)
1.12 - Alice - Les oiseaux (1:45)
1.13 - Alice - Du fil à recoudre (2:18)
1.14 - Alice - Sur la lune (0:26)
1.15 - Alice - Deux mille trains (2:19)
1.16 - Alice - Le bébé (1:55)
1.17 - Alice - La décapotable (0:31)
1.18 - Alice - Les bonnes voitures (0:59)
1.19 - Alice - La santé (3:02)
1.20 - Alice - Le clown (2:21)
1.21 - Alice - La voiture (1:05)
1.22 - Alice - La Fête Nulle (3:12)
1.23 - Alice - Rire (0:39)

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