Rosalie Chrétien is a multidisciplinary artist whose professional profitability comes rather (apparently) from graphic design (she has a website and all). Although she also writes articles on experimental/avant-garde music for Atuvu.ca, I was not aware of her compositional aspirations before coming across this album entitled everything you say can and will be used against you. It was actually through Adrienne Munden-Dixon and her superb album Vision Mantra that Rosalie’s name came to my attention. In the liner notes, she describes her impressions of her friend Adrianne’s music with such acuity, poetry, and evocative power that I quoted her entirely. I then dug a little deeper to discover a Bandcamp page with a few musical offerings, including the album you see here, released at the beginning of last September. That’s for the credits given.
In a chamber trio format consisting of herself on vocals, percussion, and other “various objects,” Graham Beverley on guitar, and Jeremy Sklad on violin, Chrétien has constructed a solid program of four long pieces imbued with a nebulous atmosphere and traversed by subtle electrical streaks. Somewhere between the sound of Montreal indie post-prog, experimental ambient, and free improvisation, everything you say can and will be used against you plunges the listener into dreamlike atmospheres dotted with random particulate movements, all with delicacy and ephemeral fragility.
An album that will make you float and maybe hallucinate a bit.
