Marie Dassel

Live

Performs rarely and only in intimate rooms across France — small halls, back rooms, someone's front parlour. Nothing large, nothing ticketed widely. For house-concert enquiries, write.

Booking enquiries

Asked & answered

What order should I listen in?: However you like — but the records are built to be heard whole, start to finish, in one sitting if you have it.
Who's it for?: Anyone who needs feminine interiority for half an hour. That's the whole audience I'm writing for.
Do you play live?: Rarely, and only in intimate rooms. If you run a small space and want to enquire, get in touch — nothing is scheduled unless it's listed here.
Vinyl / physical?: Nothing pressed at the moment. If that changes it'll be announced here first.
What should I put this on for?: It's made for forest at night and quiet attention — reading, working late, the last hour of a day. Play it low; it was made low.

The story

Harp music drawn to the forest after dark and the creatures imagined there.

In harp / modern composition, the harp is a kind of weather here — it moves through forest at night and the uncanny the way light moves through a room, slowly and without asking.

The records — “Come Back”, “Laurie”, “Stranger”, “The Carousel”, “The Woodmaker” and more — are less albums than seasons: each one a long, held breath.

Hear it

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In the lineage of Impressionist water-music · folk modal singing · field recordings · early music

Working notes

Make the room quieter than you found it.
Suggestion over statement. Space over spectacle.
Keep the mistakes that sound like weather.
Small music, made carefully, for one listener at a time.