Félicia Atkinson removes the face and lets SANS VISAGE haunt the room in layers

Félicia Atkinson’s SANS VISAGE arrives on 26 June as a recorded version of her score for Georges Franju’s 1960 cult horror film Eyes Without a Face. That source material is already full of masks, confinement, surgical obsession and fragile escape, but Atkinson’s world is uniquely suited to pulling dread out of the air between sounds. Pitchfork notes that the French composer leans into her music’s ghostly qualities, stitching together electronics, field-recording sensibility, spoken-word atmosphere and Fender Rhodes textures. The Belgian cultural centre Viernulvier commissioned the score as part of its Videodroom series, and the recorded version pares a full 90-minute live score down to 34 minutes. SANS VISAGE sounds like music made from the edges of visibility: thin tones, creeping silence, haunted piano and the unnerving feeling that the face is gone but the presence remains.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/felicia-atkinson-sans-visage/