ARTIST: Stephane Leonard ALBUM (webrelease): Please destroy me LABEL: Frozen Elephants Music (fe014) FREE DOWNLOAD: www.frozenelephantsmusic.com

GENERAL:
Frozen Elephants Music fe014 (webrelease) / all sounds by Stephane Leonard / created between 2009 – 2010 in Berlin and Bergen / artwork: Peter Prautzsch / publishing lisence provided by the Creative Commons project

INFO:
“After my last full-length album ´Lykkelig Dyr´ was published 2 years ago (2008), I have finished recording about 2 new records. Unfortunately both albums did not sound like I imagined or wanted my next release to sound like so I started to destroy most of the material again and kept on writing. Somewhere along the way 8 small pieces emerged and formed a group or a short record which I kept. Within those pieces I found elements from the past and some up to date ideas and some things that I don´t understand, which is always good and exciting. When I wrote and recorded them I read a lot about melancholic depression, about the different states one can be in, about different cases and how this illness progresses. Around that time I myself spent many days locked up in my room staring at the ceiling, sleepless and without any energy to seriously get anything done, except for drawing little graphs of my mood and how it changed within a day, within a week. Parts of those graphs later became the basic structure of some of my compositions (´Please destroy me 4´ is based on one of those drawings).
Since I almost never left the house during those weeks I only had a few sounds available to actually work with and one in particular was a Kalimba. As you can hear the Kalimba sometimes sounds rather raw and sometimes it is heavily processed which is something I have always been very interested in: the endless possibilities of computer based music and the limitations we have to find for ourselves. In addition to the Kalimba I have used recordings of drums, a music box and some cymbal stuff I found on my Laptop (thank you Øystein for the cymbals).
´Please destroy me´ is not the follow up to ´Lykkelig Dyr´ but it is somewhere in the middle, somewhere along the way or maybe a crossroad on my way to …” (Stephane Leonard)