CD | Caressing the Clouds - Isa*Belle + Paradise Now | Transonic Label (Eu)
Since 2004, Isa*Belle (holistic masseuse, artist of the senses) has been working with sound creator Paradise Now (Philippe Franck’s solo and collaborative artistic project) to create sound installations and performances (presented in various art centers, galleries, festivals and international events) from an impermanent interlacing of singing bowls (Tibetan, Vietnamese, Indian, crystal…), gongs, bells and other vibrating objects/instruments.
In these improvisations which place the art of listening at the center of a sensitive exchange, they can also dialogue with live electronic, guitars or vocal treatments.
The selection of pieces – most of them previously unpublished – which constitute this predominantly meditative and organic album dates back to 2004 (first collaboration on the occasion of Isa*Belle’Sound Massages which have travelled all around the world since) to more recent creations for which the duo invited accomplices (from both the electronic and experimental/improvisation music European scenes) with whom they carried out various parallel projects.
Here the whole body becomes both receiver and producer of benevolent vibrations, transmitter of transonic flows and waves of light.
Isa*Belle (Fr/Be)
Isa*Belle develops her artistic approach for and through the well-being of the body – in its multiple dimensions – associated with personal and spiritual development.
Evolving between Belgium and France, she has been working since 2005 in collaboration with Paradise Now to produce several performances and sound installations supported by Transcultures / City Sonic and broadcast internationally.
She has also collaborated with several musicians (Maurice Charles JJ, Matthieu Safatly, Stephan Dunkelman …) and visual artists (Simone Simon, Joseph Dadoune, Régis Cotentin), created the duet Unda with Ariane Chesaux and joined, in 2015 Werner Moron and Philippe Franck in the audio-poetic combo “Les ours bipolaires”.
Philippe Franck (Be/Fr)
Under the name Paradise Now, Philippe Franck has been developing, since the early 1990s, a multifaceted artistic journey in a forward-looking and willingly collaborative approach. He has produced numerous choreographic music, exhibitions, performances interdisciplinary, videos (notably for Régis Cotentin, Hanzel & Gretzel and Thomas Israel), multimedia devices (with digital artists, Philippe Boisnard, Marc Veyrat, art2network).
In addition to its collaborations with the holistic performer Isa*Belle (several installations and body/sound performances since 2005), Paradise Now also works with musicians electronics Christophe Bailleau (the duo Pastoral), Gauthier Keyaerts (within Supernova), Stephan Dunkelman, Christian Leroy, Didié Nietzsche, the vocalist/performer Maja Jantar as well as several poets (including Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Werner Moron, Eric Therer, Catrine Godin, Habiba Sheikh…).
His recording productions can be found notably on the Transonic, Optical Sound and Sub Rosa labels.
Informations
- 08.2024
- Sounds > Isa Belle + Paradise Now
- With the collaboration of Gauthier Keyaerts (#2), A Limb (#5), Christophe Bailleau (#6), Alain Wergifosse (#7), Maja Jantar (#8), Stephan Dunkelman (#9), Maurice Charles JJ (#10), Christian Leroy (#12)
- Design > Minohrichar
- Photos > Paradise Now
- Mastering > Marc Doutrepont
- transonic-records.bandcamp.com/album/caressing-the-clouds
Production
- Transcultures, Transonic Label, Ad Libitum – en partenariat les Pépinières européennes de Création
- En partenariat avec East Atelier Gallery (Seoul)
- transcultures.be – transonic.be – pepinieres.eu
- Dedicated to the memory of Stephan Dunkelman (1956-2020), precious friend, partner, composer and stimulator.
- Special thanks to Rafael/Planned Accidents, Jee Eun, the Transcultures Europe staff and guest artists.
- CD Limited numbered edition of 120 copies with a feather, a postcard and QR code to download the album
