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38-622: Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968), sometimes known as Seaya Sadier , is a French musician best known as a founding member of the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab . She was born in the east of Paris and spent time in the US as a child. In 1996, while Stereolab was still active, she formed the side project Monade . In 2009 – the same year Stereolab became inactive – she ended the Monade project and began to perform solo work under her own name; her current band

76-455: A collection of dreamy pop vignettes, adorned with dubby echoes and tape-warped sonic tendrils" which would be largely ignored at the time. Other early avant-pop productions included the Beatles 's 1966 song " Tomorrow Never Knows ", which incorporated techniques from musique concrète , avant-garde composition, Indian music , and electro-acoustic sound manipulation into a 3-minute pop format, and

114-479: A couple when they formed Stereolab in 1990 but ended the relationship in 2002. Together, they have a son named Alex who was born in 1998. Avant-pop music "Avant-pop" has been used to label music which balances experimental or avant-garde approaches with stylistic elements from popular music, and which probes mainstream conventions of structure or form. Writer Tejumola Olaniyan describes "avant-pop music" as transgressing "the boundaries of established styles,

152-450: A cover version of french classic Paroles, Paroles originally sung by Dalida and Alain Delon. In 2023, she released a full-length album collaboration with Mombojó , What Will You Grow Now? , issued under the band name Modern Cosmology. On 13 November 2023, Sadier announced her fifth solo album, Rooting for Love , with a release date of 23 February 2024 by Drag City. On it she is joined by

190-510: A great deal of personal effort and emotion. This was one of the few areas in his life in which he allowed the personal and the political to mix. Seferis described his political principles as " liberal and democratic [or republican]." In 1963, Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferis

228-465: A vocal ensemble of men and women. The album's central theme, Sadler says, is "a call for Gnossis " which she describes as "an inquisitive outlook that will lend clue to the traumatised civilisations of earth." It follows a nature-based theme. While she spent most of her formative years in France, Sadier's family travelled extensively, and she lived briefly in the U.S. as a child. Sadier and Tim Gane were

266-591: Is known as the Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble. She has frequently performed guest vocals and collaborations with other artists. Sadier was working as a nanny when she met McCarthy guitarist Tim Gane at one of the band's Paris gigs during the late 1980s. She was disillusioned with the rock scene in France, and soon moved to London to be with Gane and to pursue her career. She contributed vocals to McCarthy's final albums, and when McCarthy broke up in 1990, she and Gane immediately formed Stereolab . For

304-471: Is music that "re-sequences" the elements of song structure "so that (a) none of the charm of the tune is lost, but (b) this very accessibility leads one to bump into weirder elements welded into the design." The Tribeca New Music Festival defines "avant-pop" as "music that draws its energy from both popular music and classical forms." The term has elsewhere been used by literary critic Larry McCaffery to describe "the most radical, subversive literary talents of

342-470: The Cache Cœur Naif EP. In turn, Mouse on Mars produced tracks on Stereolab's Dots and Loops LP. In 2001, Sadier sang on "Sol y sombra" on Fugu's Fugu 1 LP on Minty Fresh Records. In 2002, Sadier sang the chorus on "New Wave" from Common's album Electric Circus . She sang lead vocals on "Haiku One" from Sigmatropic's 2004 album Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories which was an album based on

380-455: The Mercury Rev album Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited where she sang lead vocals on the track Mornin' Glory . In 2020, Sadier appeared as featured lead singer on two compositions by Chapman Stick virtuoso Michael Bernier , released on his third solo full-length release The Beach Album . Together with Jarvis Cocker she released in 2021 on the album Tip-Top Chansons d´Ennui

418-564: The Sorbonne . While he was there, in September 1922, Smyrna/Izmir was taken by the Turkish Army after a two-year Greek military campaign on Anatolian soil. Many Greeks, including Seferis's family, fled from Asia Minor. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until 1950; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis's poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in

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456-840: The Tim Gane / Sean O'Hagan side project Turn On, and has contributed backing vocals to the track "Go Round" on The Hair and Skin Trading Company 's 1993 album Over Valence . Sadier added French backing vocals on the 1994 song " To the End ," from Blur 's Parklife album. In 1995, she recorded the Serge Gainsbourg / Brigitte Bardot song " Bonnie and Clyde " with Luna . Throughout the years, Sadier has occasionally collaborated with German electronica group Mouse on Mars . In 1997, Sadier sang on "Schnick Schnack Meltmade" on Mouse on Mars' Autoditacker LP, and she and Mary Hansen contributed vocals to

494-523: The University of Athens , as well as a poet and translator in his own right. He was also a staunch Venizelist and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official language ( katharevousa ). Both of these attitudes influenced his son. In 1914 the family moved to Athens , where Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies in Paris from 1918 to 1925, studying law at

532-726: The 1968 album An Electric Storm , recorded by the electronic music group White Noise (featuring members from the U.K.’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop ), is an "undisputed masterpiece of early avant-pop". In the 1970s, progressive rock and post-punk music would see new avant-pop fusions, including the work of Pink Floyd , Genesis , Henry Cow , This Heat , and the Pop Group . More contemporary avant-pop artists have included David Sylvian , Scott Walker , and Björk , whose vocal experimentation and innovative modes of expression have seen them move beyond norms of commercial pop music. Others who have been credited as avant-pop's pioneers include

570-721: The 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962. Seferis was born in Vourla near Smyrna in Asia Minor , in the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (now İzmir , Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer , and later a professor at

608-596: The Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus." While Seferis has sometimes been considered a nationalist poet, his 'Hellenism' had more to do with his identifying a unifying strand of humanism in the continuity of Greek culture and literature . The other five finalists for the prize that year were W. H. Auden , Pablo Neruda (1971 winner), Samuel Beckett (1969 winner), Yukio Mishima and Aksel Sandemose . In 1967

646-489: The Velvet Underground 's integration of La Monte Young 's minimalist and drone music ideas, beat poetry , and 1960s pop art. In late 1960s Germany, an experimental avant-pop scene dubbed " krautrock " saw influential artists such as Kraftwerk , Can , and Tangerine Dream draw inspiration from minimalism, German academic music , and Anglo-American pop-rock . According to The Quietus ' David McNamee,

684-535: The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed , singer Kate Bush , performance artist Laurie Anderson , art pop musician Spookey Ruben , and Black Dice 's Eric Copeland . As of 2017, contemporary artists working in avant-pop areas include Julia Holter , Holly Herndon and Oneohtrix Point Never . In 1979, Andrew Stiller of The Buffalo News wrote of two separate strands; "avant-garde pop", he theorised, comprised new wave music and acts like Brian Eno , Devo and Talking Heads , whereas "pop avant-garde", he deemed,

722-601: The album Wolf (2013) by Tyler, the Creator , and "Summer Long" on the album Alexandre (2014) by Brazilian band Mombojó . She wrote the lyrics and was featured in "La Ballade" on the album Something About April II (2016) by Adrian Younge , and sang on the album I'm Willing (2016) by Marker Starling . In 2017, she appeared on the Deerhoof song "Come Down Here and Say That" from their album Mountain Moves . In 2019 she appeared on

760-501: The end of the junta in 1974 as a direct result of Turkey 's invasion of Cyprus, which had itself been prompted by the junta's attempt to overthrow Cyprus's president, Archbishop Makarios . He died in Athens, on September 20, 1971. The cause of death was reported to be pneumonia, aggravated by a stroke he had suffered after undergoing surgery for a bleeding ulcer about two months earlier. At his funeral, huge crowds followed his coffin through

798-708: The eve of the German invasion of Greece. During the Second World War, Seferis accompanied the Free Greek Government in exile to Crete , Egypt, South Africa, and Italy , and returned to liberated Athens in 1944. He continued to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held diplomatic posts in Ankara, Turkey (1948–1950) and London (1951–1953). He was appointed minister to Lebanon , Syria, Jordan , and Iraq (1953–1956), and

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836-631: The first incarnation of the band, they enlisted ex- Chills bassist Martin Kean , drummer Joe Dilworth and Gina Morris on backing vocals. In 1993, the band were signed to the American major label Elektra . They were released from their recording contract in 2004. Sadier was the main contributor of lyrics, written in both English and French. In 2009, the group went into recording hiatus although they continue sporadically to play together live. In 1996, Sadier formed Monade with Pram 's Rosie Cuckston. The group released

874-580: The meanings those styles reference, and the social norms they support or imply." Music writer Sean Albiez describes "avant-pop" as identifying idiosyncratic artists working in "a liminal space between contemporary classical music and the many popular music genres that developed in the second half of the twentieth century." He noted avant-pop's basis in experimentalism, as well its postmodern and non-hierarchical incorporation of varied genres such as pop, electronica , rock , classical , and jazz . Paul Grimstad of The Brooklyn Rail writes that avant-pop

912-537: The mixture of populations, and in its traditions, to his childhood summer home in Skala (Urla). His book of poems Imerologio Katastromatos III was inspired by the island, and mostly written there–bringing to an end a period of six or seven years in which Seferis had not produced any poetry. Its original title Cyprus, where it was ordained for me... (a quotation from Euripides ' Helen in which Teucer states that Apollo has decreed that Cyprus shall be his home) made clear

950-450: The optimistic sense of homecoming Seferis felt on discovering the island. Seferis changed the title in the 1959 edition of his poems. Politically, Cyprus was entangled in the dispute between the UK, Greece and Turkey over its international status. Over the next few years, Seferis made use of his position in the diplomatic service to strive towards a resolution of the Cyprus dispute , investing

988-555: The poetry of Greek poet Giorgos Seferis . In 2007, Sadier wrote songs with Mouse on Mars and toured with them in Italy. They have yet to record the songs for release. In 2009 the French label Deux Mille released an EP which features Sadier singing with Toulouse -based band Momotte. Sadier wrote and sang the lyrics to the track "Quick Canal" by Atlas Sound on their album Logos (2009). She contributed vocals to "PartyIsntOver/Campfire/Bimmer" on

1026-421: The postmodern new wave." In the 1960s, as popular music began to gain cultural importance and question its status as commercial entertainment, musicians began to look to the post-war avant-garde for inspiration. In 1959, music producer Joe Meek recorded I Hear a New World (1960), which Tiny Mix Tapes ' Jonathan Patrick calls a "seminal moment in both electronic music and avant-pop history [...]

1064-515: The project in 2009 to perform new songs under her name, and released a solo album titled The Trip in September 2010; it was followed by Silencio in 2012 and Something Shines in 2014. Sadier released the album Find Me Finding You in 2017, credited to the Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble. Sadier has contributed vocals to various groups and projects, at times along with the late Stereolab member Mary Hansen . She and Hansen had contributed vocals to various recordings of The High Llamas and to

1102-626: The repressive nationalist, right-wing Regime of the Colonels took power in Greece after a coup d'état. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis took a stand against the regime. On March 28, 1969, he made a statement on the BBC World Service, with copies simultaneously distributed to every newspaper in Athens. In authoritative and absolute terms, he stated "This anomaly must end". Seferis did not live to see

1140-500: The singles "The Sunrise Telling" and "Witch Hazel/Ode to a Keyring" in 1997. The band's debut album Socialisme ou Barbarie: The Bedroom Recordings was released on Duophonic Records in Europe and Drag City in the US in 2003. Their second album A Few Steps More was released on Too Pure in 2004. Monade's follow-up, Monstre Cosmic , was released in February 2008 on Duophonic. She retired

1178-412: The solo improvisations of Terry Riley . Giorgos Seferis Giorgos or George Seferis ( / s ə ˈ f ɛr ɪ s / ; Greek : Γιώργος Σεφέρης [ˈʝorɣos seˈferis] ), the pen name of Georgios Seferiadis (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13  [ O.S. February 29] 1900 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat . He was one of the most important Greek poets of

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1216-539: The story of Odysseus . Seferis was also greatly influenced by Kavafis , T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound . He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the beginning of a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England (1931–1934) and Albania (1936–1938). He married Maria Zannou ('Maro') on April 10, 1941 on

1254-552: The streets of Athens, singing Mikis Theodorakis ' setting of Seferis's poem 'Denial' (then banned); he had become a popular hero for his resistance to the regime. He is buried at First Cemetery of Athens . His house at Pangrati district of central Athens , just next to the Panathinaiko Stadium of Athens, still stands today at Agras Street. There are commemorative blue plaques on two of his London homes – 51 Upper Brook Street, and at 7 Sloane Avenue . In 1999, there

1292-463: Was "a popularization of the indeterminacy cum electronics so widespread among classical composers a decade ago". He counted recent works by Vangelis , Heldon and Bruce Ditmas as examples of the latter, and wrote that it originated in the 1960s counterculture 's "notions of universal amateurism" with pieces like the Doors ' " Horse Latitudes " (1967), the Beatles' " Revolution 9 " (1968) and, later,

1330-551: Was Royal Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1961, the last post before his retirement in Athens. Seferis received many honours and prizes, among them honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Cambridge (1960), Oxford (1964), Thessaloniki (1964), and Princeton (1965). Seferis first visited Cyprus in November 1953. He immediately fell in love with the island, partly because of its resemblance, in its landscape,

1368-506: Was a dispute over the naming of a street in İzmir Yorgos Seferis Sokagi due to continuing ill-feeling over the Greco-Turkish War in the early 1920s. In 2004, the band Sigmatropic released "16 Haiku & Other Stories," an album dedicated to and lyrically derived from Seferis's work. Vocalists included recording artists Laetitia Sadier , Alejandro Escovedo , Cat Power , and Robert Wyatt . Seferis's famous stanza from Mythistorema

1406-532: Was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games : I woke with this marble head in my hands; It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down. It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream. So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again. Stephen King quotes several of Seferis's poems as epigraphs in his 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot . The composer Richard Causton wrote

1444-617: Was nominated in total four times for the Nobel Prize. Romilly Jenkins nominated him in 1955, T.S. Eliot nominated him in 1961, Eyvind Johnson and Athanasius Trypanis Trypanis both nominated in 1962 and it was the 1963 nomination again by Eyvind Johnson that won him the prize. Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by Odysseas Elytis , who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose rather to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered

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