Prikosnovénie (russian: Прикоснове́ние) is a French

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founded in

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by Frédéric Chaplain and Sabine Adélaïde who moved to its current home in the medieval city of

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in 2001. Prikosnovénie, whose name in

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n roughly translates to “light touch”, specialises in promoting

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, neoclassical, medieval, and heavenly voices bands that incorporate a fusion of ambient and romantic cultural sounds around from the world. The label is best known for its promotion of fairy and elven-styled music and art, which is often described as art inspired by fantasy stories such as ''

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''. The label describes itself as a contemporary mix of

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’s 4AD label and France's

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experimental label, and in addition to representing bands from a number of countries, including

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, and

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, the label has released a number of compilation disks further promoting the genre of music and their artists. The label now has over 70 bands signed to its roster

History

Early Days (1990–1997)

In 1992, Prikosnovénie's first album, ''Sacrilège'', was a compilation featuring 12 different new wave styled artists, but had a small distribution. In 1993, Prikosnovenie's ''Très Hors'' compilation saw a much wider distribution, which paved the way for the first release of the label's first full-length album, Cherche-Lune's ''Dun Emrys'', released in 1994. Cherche-Lune's style of female fronted ambient vocals (typical of heavenly voices genre music) influenced Prikosnovénie to sign additional bands with similar artistic styles.

Electro and World Music (1997–2000)

A new trend of diversification was taken by the Prikosnovénie team, releasing

Orange Blossom Orange Blossom is a French band that plays a mix of electronic and world music. The band was formed in Nantes in 1993 with Pierre-Jean Chabot (known as ''PJ Chabot'') on violin and Jean-Christophe Waechter (known as ''Jay C.'') on percussions ...

's self-titled debut, and selling more than 10,000 copies. The album was reportedly recorded in a fortnight. This development allowed the label to become professional and focussed its founders attention on new musical directions. Their first new direction was LYTCH, a label subdivision promoting electro bands such as Atlas Project, Phil Von, Mimetic and Lys.

Move to Clisson and The Future (2000–present)

The label moved its home to

in Western France. At this time the label began its expansionist links with overseas artists from countries as diverse as

and

, recording them all on the Love Sessions digipack. Sabine Adélaïde also released an art collection of all the work she had done to support the artists on the label in 2002. The Fairy World Collection was released in 2003 as a commemoration of the last 10 years' output.

Artwork

Some of the bands signed to Prikosnovénie have Adélaïde design their album art.

Signed bands

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Daemonia Nymphe Daemonia Nymphe (''Δαιμόνια Νύμφη'') is a Greek music band established in 1994 by Spyros Giasafakis and Evi Stergiou. The band's music is modeled after Ancient Greek music and is often categorized as neoclassical or neofolk. Daemon ...

Flëur Flëur was a musical collective from the Ukrainian city of Odesa, being unique for the Ukrainian musical scene. The collective was based around the two original members and frontwomen Olga Pulatova (Ольга Пулатова) and Olena Voinarovs ...

Irfan In Islam, ‘Irfan (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: ; tr, İrfan), literally ‘knowledge, awareness, wisdom’, is gnosis. Islamic mysticism can be considered as a vast range that engulfs theoretical and practical and conventional mysticism, but the co ...

* Ivo Sedlacek * Jack or Jive *

Louisa John-Krol Louisa John-Krol is a Melbourne-based Australian artist of the romantic folk/ pop genre - described as 'romantic pop-ethereal faerie' music by the artist herself and others. She has released six albums to date, originally on the German label, Hyp ...

* Mimetic *

* Prajna * Von Magnet

References

External links

Official site
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