Paris Motel - In The Salpetriere
Tracklisting :
1. Entrez Dans La Salpetriere
2. Three Steps
3. My Demeter
4. After Wanda
5. Coignet’s Trial
6. City Of Ladies
7. Baby Diamond
8. Stockholm The Art Of Forgetting
9. Catherine By The Sea
10. Sortez De La Salpetriere
Despite the Gallic moniker Paris Motel is as English as tuppence and is actually a vehicle for London based Amy May - sometime viola player in various orchestras and quartets as well as with artists as diverse as Circulus and Suggs and arranger and orchestrator for the likes of Jeff Beck and Sean Rowley’s Guilty Pleasures live shows.
Her debut album, on which she plays virtually all the instruments, is a haunting collection of tales interwoven with magical and mysterious ladies, from pirates and poets to French erotic novelists and medieval witches. The Salpetriere, once an asylum for the mad and the destitute women of Paris, is here used as a handy metaphor to house and collect these weird and wonderful characters.
It may be a strange concept but it’s one that has recently been lapped up by appreciative audiences at Glastonbury, Latitude and SXSW, and musically sits somewhere between the pastoral folk of the Fairports and Robert Kirby’s orchestration for Nick Drake.
Source : Loose Music
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