Musics
et lyrics Jean-Philippe Goude
Production Pour
l’Instant
Recordings
/ Studios
Ferber: Philippe
Laffont
Assistant:
Laurent Binder
Mixes / Studios
Ramses2:
Pierre-Yves Roupin
Paintings:
Susanne Hay
Translation: Pamela Mc-Clure
All
my gratitude to Claude Guinard,
Stephane Gregoire, the musicians of l’Ensemble
and Birgit Röder.
Aux Solitudes is certainly a play on words on Purcell (O solitude), but
this album of classic instrumental and post-rock returns to a serious
theme, that is an essential, and which does not consist of a consensual
complaint on the planet’s degradation but instead, of an evocation of a
major challenge. The announcement of the death of God has turned us
into orphans. It’s up to us to fully pay the consequences.
Intertwinning of styles, borrowing from the past and prospective sounds
characterize this new album in the color black, twinkling (like the
vibrations of a painting by Pierre Soulages), whose lyricism is
paradoxical for hope spurts forth on a base of desolation. Mixing the
acoustic sources and electronics, with a shivering lightness and a
frenetic pulsing, Jean-Philippe Goude invents this great music which
abolishes frontiers. This music is to be listened to and looked at.
The singularity of l’Ensemble
Jean-Philippe Goude is a magical union where a quintet of strings,
piano, Martenon wave, mandolin, woodwinds and some heavenly voices,
composing a cinematic universe like a film that projects dreams,
doubts, nighttime moods, and the perspective of a path which is ours to
draw. Here is a majestic work, profound in which it is impossible to
lose oneself. It speaks as much to the fans of baroque music as to
those souls moved by the minimalism of Moondog and Phil Glass, and to
those who are touched by the fantasies of Erik Satie; as to those who
are the most ardent admirers of Arvo Pärt’s diatonic music. For
anyone turned on by Gabriel Fauré or definitely seduced by the
elegies of Robert Wyatt, Aux Solitudes is an album of contrasts which
goes beyond its predecessors.
As for the text recited by Laurence Masliah and Jean-Philippe Goude,
sung by Isaure Equilbey and Paulin Bundgen, our young boy of 11 years
of age has just inscribed a capital work in the marble of music on the
move.This is one of the works that one will listen to with the sole
purpose and the sole pleasure of traversing life (without the help of
the afficionados of Lully and Sufjan Stenvens) while envisioning one’s
present and future on a sensitive mood. Sensitive, Jean-Philippe Goude
is assuredly, like a string which would be pulled by a wounded heart
and the smile of an eternal child who doesn’t know that life dies.
Guy Darol
translated by Céline Barré
februar 2008
1
Prolégomènes
I
(Preamble
I)
synthesizer.
1'12"
2
Market Diktat song
string quintet.
4'00"
3
Embarqués dans
les pentes
(Whisked
downhill)
counter-tenor,
oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french
horns, trumpets, trombones,
glockenspiel, tubular bells, strings
quintet, piano,
synthesizer.
3'48"
No hay camino, hay que
caminar
(There’s
no one way, you’ve got to make your way)
clarinet,
bassoon, violin, cello, doublebass, piano,
harmonium, 2 narrators.
6'33"
7
A nos rêves
évanouis
(To the faded dreams)
counter-tenor,
strings
quartet, piano.
4'20"
8
Prolégomènes
III
(Preamble
III)
synthesizer.
1''21"