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Night air – Chanson de Jamie Woon

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Le premier album du chanteur anglais Jamie Woon, « Mirrorwriting », est sorti en 2011 sous le label Cadent song.

Véritable ovni musical, il a connu un succès inattendu et suscité de l’intérêt pour le jeune virtuose à la voix éthérée.

Il paraît difficile de rattacher cet artiste à un genre, tant il mêle les influences. La presse évoque de la « néo-soul électro » ou du « dubstep » et le situe quelque part entre Brian Eno et Moby.

Cet album, aussi étonnant que réussi, surprend l’oreille. La voix et la mélodie se complètent admirablement et invitent à l’envol. Les « vibes » orientales mystiques qui émergent dans les morceaux Night air, Spiral ou Gravity semblent inspirées des origines familiales à la fois asiatiques et écossaises de l’artiste.

Night airPaysage nocturne – Léon Spilliaert (1881– 1946), vers 1925, gouache sur papier, 64,5 x 49,5 cm

Night air

 

Night air has the strangest flavour
Space to breathe it time to savour
All that night air has to lend me
Til the morning make’s me angry

In the night air

I’ve acquired a kind of madness
Daylight fills my heart with sadness
And only silent skies can soothe me
Feel that night air flowing through me

In the night air

I don’t need those car-crash colours
I control the skies above us
Close my eyes to make the night fall
The comfort of a world revolving
I can hear the earth in orbit

In the night air

I’ve acquired a taste for silence
Darkness fills my heart with calmness
And each thought like a thief is driven
To steal the night air from the heavens

In the night air

 

Jamie Woon & John O’Kane, in Mirrorwriting, Candent Songs, Polydor, 2011.
Texte extrait de la pochette de l’album.

 

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The newspaper dead (Les morts des journaux) – Poème de Pierre Joris

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THE NEWSPAPER DEAD. the paper picked up taken home, like going to church on sunday, long ago, as regular, as much of a rite. the double ritual of reading, of writing, take notes, see how it can enter, that world, your world, too. introïbo. no altar but what rolled off the presses, heavily inked. iconography of random death: if to pray is to give thought, intensely, then that is what I am doing right now unalienable format : too large to be cut out and glued into notebook : this dead will have to stay where it is, on the front page, tomorrow’s dustbin liner. this is a Reuters dead from Rome, young woman in heavy wintercoat, wool cap with studded rim pulled down to half-inch above eyebrows, face pressed three quarters towards me to the asphalt, ear to the ground as if listening for a distant tremor an approaching train a faroff revolution or simply for what the earth has to tell her. whatever it is, she can no longer hear it. Lire la suite…

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Across the red sky (À travers le ciel rouge) – Poème de Katherine Mansfield

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Across the red sky

 

Across the red sky two birds flying,
Flying with drooping wings.
Silent and solitary their ominous flight.
All day the triumphant sun with yellow banners
Warred and warred with the earth, and when she yielded
Stabbed her heart, gathered her blood in a chalice,
Spilling it over the evening sky.
When the dark plumaged birds go flying, flying,
Quiet lies the earth wrapt in her mournful shadow,
Her sightless eyes turned to the red sky
And the restlessly seeking birds. Lire la suite…

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The bay – chanson de Metronomy

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The bay

THE BAY

 

You may have the money
But you’ve got to go
It’s sensible
It’s sensible
And those endless seasons
That go on and on
Incredible

But I’d sooner get out
And remember where we went last year
You said everything about it moved on your career
If you want to go
I’ll take you back one day

Because this isn’t Paris
And this isn’t London
And it’s not Berlin
And it’s not Hong Kong
Not Tokyo
If you want to go
I’ll take you back one day

It feels so good in the bay
It feels so good in the bay

You may have the body
But do you have the song ?
Let’s make this happen
Let’s make this happen
And those endless beaches
That go on and on
It’s magical

But I’d sooner get out
Remember where we went last year
You said everything about it moved on your career
If you want to go
I’ll take you back one day

Because this isn’t Paris
And this isn’t London
And it’s not Berlin
And it’s not Hong Kong
Not Tokyo
If you want to go
I’ll take you back one day

It feels so good in the bay
It feels so good in the bay

 

Metronomy, in album The english riviera, 2011.

 

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Blues – Poème de Wystan Hugh Auden

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J’ai découvert récemment le poète américain d’origine britannique Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), par la lecture de Blues donnée par Daniel Lévy au château de l’Échelle à La Roche sur Foron (74) en décembre dernier.

 

Ces vers grinçants abordent l’oppressante question de notre immuable destin : la Mort. Je trouve ce poème plus original et moderne que Funeral blues rendu célèbre par le film 4 mariages et 1 enterrement.

Le voici, suivi de sa traduction en français :

BLUES
(for Hedli Anderson)

 

Ladies and gentlemen, sitting here,
Eating and drinking and warming a chair.
Feeling and thinking and drawing your breath,
Who’s sitting next to you ? It may be Death. Lire la suite…

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Somebody That I Used To Know – Chanson de Gotye

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Somebody that I used to know

 

Somebody That I Used To Know

 

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I’ll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I’d done
But I don’t wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn’t catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know

Somebody…

 

Gotye (featuring Kimbra), in l’album Making Mirrors, label Eleven, 2011.

 

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