Tracklist

A1	Prologue
A2	Absolue Souveraine
A3	Dieu Dans Le Bordel
B1	La Dame Qui Monte
B2	Plaisir
C1	Sous La Voute De Saint-Denis
C2	Folle
C3	Angelique Denudeè
D1	Les Halles
D2	Longue Attent De La Mort
D3	Epilogue

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Ready Made
• Distributed By – Audioglobe
• Manufactured By – Forged Sound
• Recorded At – Berlin
• Mixed At – Transfert Studio
• Engineered At – Transfert Studio
• Published By – Kizmaiaz

Credits

• Artwork – Valentina Bardazzi
• Cello – Stella Veloce
• Design – The Anti B, New York
• Mastered By – Murcof
• Music By, Producer, Mixed By – Mirco Magnani
• Tipography – Lapo Belmestieri
• Vocals – Ernesto Tomasini

Notes

Madame E. is a musical setting of Georges Bataille’s “Madame Edwarda”, a short novel that interlaces themes of eroticism, religiosity and death, and was written under the pseudonym Pierre Angelique in 1941, during the occupation of Paris.
Composer Mirco Magnani wrote eleven electronic pieces and presented them to actor/singer Ernesto Tomasini. They turned them into songs by adding vocal melodies and together they produced a libretto based on Bataille’s French text. The result of their dynamic interpretation is a hypnotically spellbinding performance where the audience is transported through worlds – ancient and new – and where Tomasini’s haunting falsetto conveys the tormented emotions in Bataille’s work and becomes the instrument that articulates the writer’s famously obscure themes.
The experimental operatic performance captures the atmosphere of heightened human passion, reminiscent of opera seria and revisited through hazy and minimalistic lens. The resulting dark and twitchy mood amalgamates old vintage electronic devices, string piano and Stella Veloce´s touching violoncello. The stage becomes a space where Eros and Thanatos, real and virtual, analogue and digital, cluster and melody, spirituality and technology are intermixed and turned unidentifiable, hence collapsing the binary logic of dualism.
Written by Magnani/Tomasini and produced by Mirco Magnani, with lyrics taken from "Madame Edwarda" by Georges Bataille, Madame E. was developed between Berlin and London where Magnani and Tomasini are respectively based. Recorded in Berlin, mastered by Murcof and released by Magnani’s label Undogmatisch, a collective that also includes Nicolas Defawe (Urban Spree) and Valentina Bardazzi, the painter responsible for the album artwork.