Extraits de mes deux albums préférés du 22 juillet 2022 :-
Marva Broome – Mystifying mama /
Michel Roques – Monsieur Chimpanzé /
Rene Urtreger – Tchac poum poum /
Jacques Higelin – Je jouais le piano /
Pierre Akendengue – Orema ka-ka-ka /
Pierre Barouh & Baden Powell – Saudade (Un manque habité) (Extraits de
l’album Various Artists – Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sound) (« The groundbreaking 60’s & 70’s sound of Pierre Barouh’s pioneering French label Saravah, mixing jazz, underground pop, soul, African and Brazilian music. A 2-LP featuring Brigitte Fontaine, Areski, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou and Baroque Jazz Trio with liner notes by Benjamin Barouh and Jacques Denis. »
https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/pierre-barouh-and-the-saravah-sound ;
https://modulor-records.com/fr/boutique/various-artists/pierre-barouh-the-saravah-sound/)
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Ben Harper – Smile at the mention (Extrait de l’album
Bloodline maintenance) (« Un "témoignage" et une "célébration", telles sont les deux facettes du dernier album studio de Ben Harper, selon les mots de l'artiste. Dans ce 17
e opus […], le musicien aborde des sujets contemporains, comme la lutte contre le racisme, le changement climatique ou encore la menace d’une guerre nucléaire. À travers ces dix titres, enregistrés avec The Innocent Criminals, Ben Harper a également souhaité rendre hommage au bassiste du groupe, Juan Nelson, son ami récemment décédé […]. Rock, folk, blues, jazz... Ben Harper et ses musiciens font aussi une large place au gospel, une constante dans la carrière de l'artiste américain […]. »
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/rock/avec-bloodline-maintenance-ben-harper-rend-hommage-a-son-bassiste-disparu-un-maestro-absolu_5269909.html ;
https://www.lesechos.fr/weekend/spectacles-musique/bloodline-maintenance-ben-harper-une-flamme-jamais-eteinte-1778061 «
Bloodline maintenance sees Harper performing the majority of the instruments on his own, spanning guitar, bass, drums and an eclectic assortment of percussions including a plastic toy snare [...]. The new album is further fuelled by Harper’s signature lap steel, supercharged through a powerful Dumble amplifier creating a truly unruly tone that Harper describes as “a sort of a merging of Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix”. “This whole album is really soul music reinterpreted with a lap steel”, Harper says. Applying the inventiveness of hip-hop to longstanding paradigms of soul, blues and jazz, spinning it all forward into a reconfiguration of a new black Americana,
Bloodline maintenance continues Harper’s long history as one of his generation’s most potent protest singers. »
https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/product.php?pid=144789)
Quelques pièces appréciées :Bastien Keb – Pasadena (Extrait de l’album
Organ recital, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) («
Organ recital, le quatrième album de Keb, tisse un mélange imaginatif de « psychedelic-chamber-funk », d'anti-ballades déformées et d'instrumentaux cinématographiques […]. Avec une production inspirée par des sommités aussi importantes que David Axlerod, Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Madlib et The Delfonics ; Keb joue de la guitare, de la trompette, de la basse, de la batterie, du piano, de la flûte et plus encore, tandis que sa voix d'harmonie en couches d'un autre monde est distincte et immédiatement reconnaissable. L'album a été écrit, interprété, enregistré, conçu, produit et mixé par Keb dans diverses chambres entre Londres, Somerset et sa ville natale de Leamington Spa pendant une période solitaire à travailler de nuit dans un entrepôt. Les contributions extérieures de l'album proviennent d'Alex Judd (violon), Claudia Kane (voix) et Tomos Xerri (harpe). »
https://www.divertir.eu/blog/culturel/bastien-keb-l-album-organ-recital.html « Conceived as a fantasy world to escape self-doubt and loneliness, fragments from everyday life continue to bleed through the cracks of reality – the harmony from a distant car alarm, someone’s headphones on the night bus, rain on leaky roof, a decaying siren – to produce a dreamlike journey pieced together from half-imagined memories and late night inner-voice conversations. »
https://bastienkeb.bandcamp.com/) (« Psychedelic, soulful, eerie, experimental, ambient and avant-garde – experimental hip hop and soul music, all played live using battered/borrowed instruments. With a backdrop of VHS home movies samples, kitchen sink percussion, fuzzy spoken word and wild brass. »)
Jack White – Please God, don't tell anyone (Extrait de l’album
Entering heaven alive, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) («
Entering heaven alive montre la facette apaisée et amoureuse de ce musicien plus connu pour ses riffs de guitare cinglants […].
Entering heaven alive est calme et d’une simplicité biblique. Jack White est ici dans une veine amoureuse puisque le disque offre une belle collection de chansons d’amour […]. Sur ce nouvel album, le musicien connu pour ses riffs de guitare déchaînés démontre davantage son art du
songwriting classique, efficace, gorgé de belles harmonies […]. Seul un titre s’écarte résolument du chemin : «
I’ve got you surrounded (with my love) », qui aurait pu figurer sur
Fear of the dawn. Placé au cœur du disque, il risque d’être décrié mais on aime ses accents jazz mêlés à la pédale wah-wah […]. Jack White a l’art de toujours sortir des clous à un moment ou à un autre, conjurant l’écueil de morceaux trop prévisibles […]. »
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/rock/le-guitar-heros-jack-white-presente-son-versant-apaise-avec-entering-heaven-alive-son-second-album-de-l-annee_5272228.html ;
https://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/inusable-jack-white-chante-lamour-sous-toutes-ses-formes-sur-entering-heaven-alive-476651-20-07-2022/)
Ty Segall – Don’t lie (Extrait de l’album
Hello, hi, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) (« Tossing down straight acoustic shots with electric guitar back,
Hello, hi rides through the valley of yer ol' Canyon legends, finding an isolated place to unspool Ty's copious reserves of nervous energy beneath an open sky. Swarms of harmony vocals caper among the clouds, but there's a rider on the horizon, crossbow trained upon his very heart: the engine driving all the relationships of life, whether down Broadway or over the cliffs at night! Whatever doesn't get killed is getting stronger all the time. A lean, mean deal, baked in saltwater and sunlight, compassion pouring out it's beautiful blue eyes. »
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/album/hello-hi ;
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/ty-segall-hello-hi-139328/ ;
https://lecanalauditif.ca/critiques/ty-segall-hello-hi/ ;
https://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/ty-segall-je-veux-donner-a-mes-albums-le-temps-de-vivre-482867-21-07-2022/ ;
https://www.baladessonores.com/la-boutique/ty-segall-hello-hi/)
John Moreland – Ugly faces (Extrait de l’album
Birds in the ceiling, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) («
Birds in the ceiling is Moreland’s sixth album and finds the esteemed artist, and producer Matt Pence, building on the ambient sonic experimentation that was introduced on 2020’s critically acclaimed album,
LP5. Moreland also expands the scope of his guitar playing, both acoustic and electric, that is prevalent throughout the new album [...]. While Moreland’s sound continues to evolve, the foundation for his songs remains built around his profound and pensive lyricism. His warm vocals offer an emotional resonance that simultaneously exudes intensity and restraint, making
Birds in the ceiling an intimate listening experience that blurs genre lines. Moreland’s wide ranging musical tastes and influences inform
Birds in the ceiling more than in any of his previous work, with touches of folk, retro-pop, rock, roots and drum-programming. »
https://glidemagazine.com/273690/john-moreland-returns-with-new-album-birds-in-the-ceiling-out-7-22/ ;
https://www.popmatters.com/john-moreland-birds-in-the-ceiling ;
https://americanahighways.org/2022/07/19/review-john-moreland-birds-in-the-ceiling/)
Joe Pug – I do my father's drugs (Revisited) (Extrait de
l’album Nation of heat – Revisited, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) (« A complete, full-band reimagining of the 2008 solo-acoustic debut. This entirely new album features performances by Brandon Flowers of The Killers, Derry Deborja of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit, Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket, Courtney Hartman, and many others. The album’s cover is by legendary Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick and the liner notes were composed by Steve Earle. »
https://joepugmusic.com/store/p/nation-of-heat-revisited-10-black-vinyl-record-mrwc4-4gcg3-wj693 ;
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/joe-pug/interview-nation-of-heat-revisited/ “So here I am again with this original set of songs, recorded now as I had always wished they could have been.” – Joe Pug, Greenbelt, MD, 12/21) (Folk, alt-country, americana, roots…)
ZZ Top – Blue jean blues (Extrait de
l’album Raw (‘That little ol' band from Texas’ Original soundtrack), qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) (« It's a live album without an audience, brought about when
Banger Films, makers of the 2019
Netflix documentary (
That little ol' band from Texas), gathered the group at historic Gruene Hall, billed as Texas' oldest continually run dance venue, ostensibly for some still shots. But the band's gear was set up on the stage, and suffice to say that when Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard are in a room together with instruments, music is bound to happen. That ad-hoc session was captured – gloriously – for the film and now for this belated companion. A decent argument can be made that this is the, or at least a, definitive ZZ Top document, capturing the band in its "native habitat", playing for each other, without overdubs or studio polish, just relaxed and having an audibly good time. It's a fly-on-the-wall-like glimpse into the rehearsal room, with some stage lighting or two attached, and while there have been a few ZZ Top live albums in front of audiences, from Side One of 1975's
Fandango! on, none have captured the raw essence of ZZ Top like this. The most pronounced feature of
Raw is its mix. It's lean and mean, each of the instruments perfectly balanced and distinct from each other. That works to Hill's benefit more than the others; his chunky bass lines can be appreciated more than ever before, laying down a thick bottom that grooves in and out of Beard's solid meters. That, in turn, illustrates how key that rhythm section telepathy is to Gibbons, whose biting guitar tone jumps out of nearly every song, whether he's helping to hold down the rhythm or searing any of the solos on the 12-song set […].
Raw is possibly the last ZZ Top recording we'll hear from Hill, who died in 2021 and to whom the set is dedicated. If so, it's a fond, and deservedly raucous, farewell, proof that 50 years in ZZ Top can still blow the roof off any joint, whether it's in front of a crowd or just each other. »
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/zz-top-raw-album-review/ ;
http://rockmeeting.com/news/12174-zz-top-raw-nouvel-album)
Billie Eilish – TV /
The 30th (Extraits de l’EP
Guitar songs, qui est sorti le 21 juillet 2022) (« For a songwriter who made her name on lyrics wreathed with horror-movie imagery, Eilish has become a realist songwriter of great subtlety, one who makes light work of crushing material and without ever lessening its impact. The first song, “TV”, got its live debut in Manchester recently, and made headlines for referencing the unedifying spectacle of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s court battle, as well as the – then rumoured, now horrifyingly real – overturning of constitutional abortion rights in the US [...]. [Billie EIlish's] voice [is] softened by felty harmonies, as her brother Finneas’s acoustic guitar takes on a softly Pink Floyd-worthy sense of scope […]. Eilish has always been acutely aware of our proclivity for destruction as a form of entertainment, and the immediacy of TV recalls Lana Del Rey’s "The greatest", with the world engulfed by heat and Kanye “blond and gone”. Fittingly, the melody of each line seems to tumble, each one a crumbling empire delivered in her tremulous, feather-light voice [...]. But then, maybe, the point of it all emerges: the acoustic recording blends with the sound of the crowd from the Manchester show, hearing the song for the first time ever, yet repeating the lines. Their shared helplessness gets louder and louder, building from sympathy to a sort of staunch communion. “The 30th” is more insular: a terrifying account of a friend who had what sounds like a life-changing car accident. The guitar is sweeter, her voice even more delicate, the soft piano barely perceptible: a spider’s web barely holding the fragile balance of the situation. After the fact, Eilish realises that their crash was the cause of the traffic jam she was in that day [...]. A slew of what-ifs follow with a rising sense of panic, a crescendo of rushing thoughts and overlapping vocal harmonies [...], that build to a yell before Eilish’s lone voice tapers off, like a bird flying free from a flock: “You’re alive” [...]. We get the visceral sense of a young woman watching things she holds dear being destroyed, or almost destroyed, and agonising over what happens when we stop looking. But Eilish, developing at warp speed as a songwriter, isn’t looking away. »
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/21/billie-eilish-guitar-songs-ep-review-developing-at-warp-speed ;
https://www.rollingstone.fr/billie-eilish-publie-un-ep-surprise/ ;
https://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/tv-et-30th-billie-eilish-devoile-deux-nouveaux-morceaux-487081-22-07-2022/)
Pièces instrumentales :Sasha Berliner – Jade (Extrait de l’album
Onyx, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) (« Sasha Berliner is a San Francisco-born vibraphonist and composer [...]. To get a feel for the tone of the album, consider that the
Onyx is a dark stone with a bold, cryptic nature. Berliner latched onto this, feeling it was a good descriptor for her atypical harmonic range and offbeat compositions that course through a range of emotions and moods [...]. To accompany her, she chose an elite group of younger, ascending contemporaries – Marcus Gilmore on drums, Burniss Travis II on upright and electric bass, and James Francies on piano, and Fender Rhodes. Special guests include Jaleel Shaw on alto saxophone, Julius Rodriguez on analog synths and vocalist Thana Alexa […]. By design, the album is a collection of pieces that do not adhere to any theme. We are in the boundaryless territory. Add Berliner to the new vanguard of contemporary artists that are reshaping jazz with unconventional compositional approaches. »
https://glidemagazine.com/278299/vibraphonist-sasha-berliner-taps-elite-musicians-for-edgy-onyx-album-review/ «
Onyx is an embrace of idiosyncrasy, designating analog manipulation at the axis of a modern and uncommon improvisational magnum opus. »
https://sashaberliner.bandcamp.com/album/onyx « Fashioned by a contemporary fervor and a parade of her mallet mastery, Sasha Berliner’s sophomore statement emerges as an exploration of the ephemeral. “The album is meant to be seen as a collection of artistic statements rather than a story with a peak and a conclusion. Each work holds its own, yet infuses a bit of itself in every other piece.” An enthralling invitation to surrender to the unknown,
Onyx defies what we know as finite, pressing listeners to depart from the familiar and accede to a swift ride through unknown sonic terrains. »
https://lydialiebman.com/index.php/2022/06/01/new-release-vibraphonist-sasha-berliner-presents-sophomore-recording-onyx-due-out-july-22-via-jmi-recordings/ ;
https://www.sashaberlinermusic.com/welcome)
Ma pièce instrumentale préférée du 22 juillet :
Aftab Darvishi – Sahar (Extrait de
l’album A thousand butterflies, qui est sorti le 22 juillet 2022) (« A portrait album that looks back on Darvishi’s 11-year journey as a composer,
A thousand butterflies evokes a life that has crossed continents. It spans a range of styles and includes work for a variety of instrumental forces as well as electronics. »
https://30m-records.com/composer-aftab-darvishi-announces-her-debut-album-on-30m-records/ ;
https://aftabdarvishi.com/ « The album opens with longbowing on “Sahar”, which Darvishi describes as the dawn chorus of Kermanshah, an ancient city in western Iran. When I listen to this, I envisage an orange-brimmed skysill contrasting the deep cerulean and royal blues of the Tekiye Moaven Al-Molk. I see night lifting from the trees in the Taq-e Bostan. The cellos wind-dance and build and hearten until everything is suddenly revealed in luminous glory: the sun has strewn her rays across this lasting land. »
https://monolithcocktail.com/2022/07/22/our-daily-bread-530-aftab-darvishi-a-thousand-butterflies/)
