MELANIE VALERA - THE MATTRESS (performance at the FIAF in partnership with the WHITNEY MUSEUM)

Whitney Live, in collaboration with French Institute Alliance Française, presents one young composer in dialogue with pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché as part of the Whitney Museum retrospective of her career.
Like Alice Guy Blaché, Melanie Valera (aka Tender Forever) was born and began her artistic life in France. She continues to live an intercontinental existence, artistically and otherwise, and moves between the streets of Bordeaux where she grew up and her adopted home town of Portland, Oregon. Her tender, delicate songs bring forth hidden connections between these worlds and occupy the musical landscape in which Melanie Valera became Tender Forever (taking as reference points punk rock, experimental electronica, weird visuals, and collaborations with several fellow K Records artists).

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Music

Tags:

• tender forever
• tenderforever
• ted passon
• duncan frazier
• nick lally
• french institute
• whitney museum
• alice guy blache
• alice blache
• k records
• melanie valera

[CarolinesCute]

ah<3

[SilentlyVolatile]

This is really awesome.

[diemutti83]

what´s the name of the first song on the carpet? it´s so wonderful, strange and great! i love this girl!!!

[littlematriochka]

C'est excellent! Reviens en France à Lyon pour etre un peu plus éxigeante.

Nouvelles chansons? : nouvel album?

[secularnethical]

in my adopted home of olympia, washington we like magic mattress rides and flying technology. how did this great match with alice come to be?

[julymickey]

Awesome!!! XD I can't wait for the new album \o/

[catzeyes919]

Really smooth track here. If this is what the new cd is like I am quite excited.

Also the video entertaining even though I'm not quite sure what to make of it...