Chloé (Thévenin) - Endless Revisions Live LP [Lumière Noire Records]

Format: LP in printed sleeve.
CAT: LN020

Musicians have a tendency not to stand still. They have a need to be on the move, to get lost (perhaps to find themselves better), to step out of their comfort zones and push their work into new forms, to turn a mirror to their output and look at themselves. These are, among others, the reasons that motivated the first live recording of tracks from Endless Revisions, Chloé’s first LP in six years, an album that saw the musician reach a higher rung in her creative prowess. A multi-faceted Pandora's box of mysterious drifts, the album is anchored by solid tracks like The Dawn and Recall.

An artist who deliberately plays with labels, embracing contemporary and novel forms, boldly throwing herself into experimentation (as evidenced by her collaboration with percussionist Vassiléna Sérafimova), Chloé wanted to take the album’s tracks and transform them in front of an audience by feeding them with new textures and inspirations.

Performed for a year at events such as Nuits Sonores, Sónar, Mutek (in Montreal and Mexico), The Peacock Society, and festivals such as Marsatac, Musilac and Colors of Ostrava, the live performance of Endless Revisions has evolved with each show. It was out of the question to let these new versions, reproduced, re-created and re-structured along with the evolution of the show’s very architecture, disappear without a trace. Chloé's prolific label Lumière Noire, on the trail of its first anniversary, had to produce a recording that would bear witness to the work that these ephemeral creations represent.