mouvement du sentiment [music]
This is my debut album.
Self-released on January 22, 2017 under the pseudonym gelivan.
The material has been created in 2013-2016.
“La musique – c’est la représentation sonore, simultanée, du sentiment de mouvement et du mouvement du sentiment.”
– Roman avec cocaïne, M. Aguéev
After years of struggling with distorted believes about myself that were subtly and surely conditioning my mind, I finally got the courage to concentrate on unleashing my creativity and not give a fuck about many things. Like a shift of focus on what really matters to me.
This album to me marks the start of a new chapter in my life, influenced by big changes such as leaving the material comfort of the place I grew up to live as a nomad, discovering my homeland with no plans at my own pace, separation from family to embrace the unknown and just go with the flow.
One day at school when I was 17, the teacher asked us to imagine ourselves at 25 or something. She didn’t really left us the time to think about it by ourselves. I just said pretty much what all the others said : a wife, a job, a 5k salary. I’m turning 29 – no children but two wonderful nieces, no wife but beautiful muses, no house but a few good friends all over the world, no salary but time.
The stories behind the music
If you'd like to know about the life that happened to bring birth to this music, you can read it all on a nice PDF file (95MB).
- English version of The stories of mouvement du sentiment
- French version of Les histoires des mouvements du sentiment
Credits & booklet text
All tracks mastered by Josh Levontine in Bristol.
caro smoke jarrett (slow down)
It's a collage of two scenes from two different movies.
The dialogue with the first piano is from Smoke (1995).
The other piano is playing as a soundtrack in Nanni Moretti's Caro Diario (Dear Diary, 1993). It's actually a piece of Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert from 1975.
bristol chords
Théophile Blanchon from Switzerland plays the trumpet. I recorded him in 2015. I asked him to play over the draft version of this track and also some other tracks from other artists.
Vocals are from a Richard Linklater's interview from the 90s and Alan Watts.
askiya
I've sampled Tiggs Da Author's Gone (vocals), though the upright bass from that song is a Apple Loop.
Italian vocals are from an interview of Adriano Celentano.
matino-belmont
It's a 4-hand piano improvisation from me and my friend Emmanuel. Italian vocals from a recording I did of my uncle and aunts.
walk around (think and write)
Vocals are from Julie Delpy as Céline Before Sunset (2004).
the holy moment
Vocals are from Caveh Zahedi in Waking Life (2001).
Some other samples in there.
yaya
Recording of my niece back in 2011 when she was 2.
Male vocal is Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk.
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