The French micro label Jelodanti Records, run by the visual artists Clara Djian and Nicolas Leto, specializes in limited edition handmade vinyl reissues. As reported here previously, past projects have included releases by groups like Ulan Bator, Goz of Kermeur, and Rose Mercie, as well as a Helvete Underground Records tribute compilation. This month Jelodanti returns with an artful 12″ re-imagining of Dagger Moth‘s track “Ovaries” by the French “musical travel agent” Philippe Petit.
The track originally appeared on Dagger Moth’s 2016 solo LP Silk Around The Marrow. The work of Italian musician Sara Ardizzoni, the sparse and haunting song was a minimalist arrangement of phasing guitar, difficult to place electronics, as well as her dusky vocals.
Philippe Petit’s rework of the delicate cut features saxophone from Arnaud Fournier, with Petit contributing kazooed-voices, and other extended vocal techniques, as well as electronics and organ. Traveling the outer reaches of composition, the musician has been known to use an odd array of instruments like the Electric Psalterion, Hackbrett Cymbalum, Caterpillar Drum Guitars built by Yuri Landman, turntables, computer, and synthesizer–as well as various percussive objects like stones, pieces of wood and glass. His work is often electro-acoustic in orientation, as it involves electricity/amplification to generate sound and sonic texture. In addition to collaborating with artists like Lydia Lunch, Eugene Robinson, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Stephen O’Malley, Jad Fair and more, Petit is also a journalist, musical activist, as well as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp.
The Ovaries 12″ is limited to a run of 300 copies and it features vinyl engravings, as well as hand-done cover art from Djian and Leto. With five different versions available, the cover’s radiographic image of ovaries is adorned by various masks made of lacework, with all the patterning stamped in acrylic paint.
