The Waves, by Flo and the Murmurs

The Waves

by Flo and the Murmurs

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1.	The Sea Has Wrinkles 01:32	buy track
2.	Come 04:32	buy track
3.	I Am a Stalk 04:29	buy track
4.	All My Ships Are White 06:37	buy track
5.	I See, I Hear 03:10	buy track
6.	The Sun Rose 03:12	buy track
7.	Water 02:49	buy track
8.	Our Secret Territory 03:12	buy track
9.	I Am the Seasons 03:00	buy track
10.	We Are Creators 04:08	buy track
11.	The Sun Had Risen 01:08	buy track
12.	Beauty Set Flowing 02:15	buy track
13.	The Wave Rises 05:01	buy track

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THE WAVES

A small word brimming with a universe of images and sensations. Rugged rocks, the majestic drop of a cliff, undulating lines, numbing whistling wind, salty lips and sticky skin, the existential pull of the vast powerful expanse, a swelling engulfing blue.

I open Virginia Woolf’s novel: “There are then warm hollows grooved in the heart of the uproar; alcoves of silence where we can shelter under the wing of beauty from truth which I desire.” The words unfold like a long evocative poem, a mesmerizing tapestry of interwoven threads, snapshots of life assembled into a kaleidoscope of grainy memories.

I dive into the prose. Its sensory quality crashes over me like a wave and seeps beneath my skin. My own memories acquire a new sheen through the lens of this powerful impressionistic poetry. I let the words flow through my body and translate them into songs. While the novel echoes the transient nature of time and the looming shadow of mortality, I experience it as an ode to life with all its vagaries.

These songs are my way of expressing gratitude for existence.
“And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me.”

Marie-Florence Burki, Neuchâtel, 2023

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released January 19, 2024

All compositions by Marie-Florence Burki

MARIE-FLORENCE BURKI Voice
SOFIA DE FALCO Violin
PAULA HSU Viola
BERNADETTE KÖBELE Cello
SNEJANA PRODANOVA Doublebass
ELODIE THÉRY Cello (1,6,11)

Lyrics are excerpts from “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf
Translation by Marguerite Yourcenar

Recorded at La Buissonne Studios on June 1, 2, 3, 2023
by Gérard de Haro assisted by Matteo Fontaine.
Mixed by Gérard de Haro at La Buissonne Studios, June 2023. Mastering at La Buissonne Mastering Studio by Nicolas Baillard. Artistic direction and production by Gérard de Haro & RJAL
and Marie-Florence Burki for La Buissonne. Booklet photos by Mathilda Olmi.
Makeup by Yannick Zürcher.
Cover drawing by Marie-Florence Burki.
Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford, 1902. Graphics by Philippe Ghielmetti & Roman Gigou.

The Label thanks:
Marc Thouvenot, Philippe Ghielmetti, Sylvie de Haro and RJAL, Juliette Poitrenaud, Roman Gigou and Manfred Eicher.
Also the Label thanks the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf for the permission to use extracts from The Waves.

Copyright © Marguerite Yourcenar – all rights reserved. P C 2023 STUDIOS / LABEL LA BUISSONNE
0033 (0)4 90 61 34 60 www.labuissonne.com

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