Sylvaine Éternelle
Yéyé meets synthwave. Paris, unstuck in time.
The Temporal Anomaly
In 1964, during a soundcheck at the Olympia, Sylvaine touched a Neumann microphone that had once belonged to Piaf and stepped out of the timeline entirely. She has been recording ever since — yéyé sung with the certainty of 1964, produced with synthesizers that wouldn't be built for twenty years. Farfisa organ, handclaps, white go-go boots, and songs that catalogue cheeses and bridges and refuse, on principle, to explain themselves. Between numbers she offers only silence.
"You are assuming that I experience time as you do. I do not."
"French is the language in which one can be most precisely dismissive."
Discography
Play the discography — or tap a cassette for that track.
La Toile
Her double LP — the Bayeux Tapestry set to music, panel by panel, in French, Latin, and the tongue of the conquered. Twenty tracks across four sides.
Appears On
TITAN — Titane Sans Excuse
Ekphrasis — Élisabeth
Composed in the Wrong Decade — Le Twist
Libertine — La Politesse des Chaînes
Sweet Tooth — Fondant