In a world saturated with fleeting sounds, French artist Tatiana Paris offers a moment of beautiful, melancholic pause with her reinterpretation of Colin Vearncombe’s 1986 classic, “Wonderful Life.”

Filmed live at the Olivier Debré Contemporary Art Center (CCCOD), this performance is an excavation. Paris strips the song down to its skeletal form, weaving a new sound from the frayed threads of nostalgia.

With a guitar that sounds like a forgotten, well-loved cassette tape, she conjures a fuzzy, almost frozen soundscape, a world where melody and rhythm are surrendered to a more visceral core. Her vocals, a mix of quiet strength, find a perfect echo in the serene yet powerful art of Claire Chesnier’s exhibition. It’s a performance that feels less like a whispered secret, … very intimate and haunting experience captured in a single video.

This sublime performance serves as a prelude to something even bigger: Tatiana Paris’s upcoming album, ‘t h a l l e,’ set to drop on November 14 via Carton Records. The album’s title, a reference to the rootless, leaf-less forms of lichens and algae, hints at its core philosophy…exploration of randomness and correlation.

Paris describes ‘t h a l l e’ as an attempt to find harmony in chaos, a collection of “small autonomous entities” where the familiar structures of songs are re-imagined. She masterfully navigates a sound that drifts between “noisy chanson and spectral minimalism,” painting a picture of a fictional meeting between avant-garde guitar legends Fred Frith, Ellen Arkbro, and Jules Reidy.

‘t h a l l e’ is available for preorder now.

Headline photo: Jeff Humbert

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