The singer publishes his tenth studio album, “Once again”, marked by a dark news.
by Francis Marmande
Again, tenth studio album by Patrick Bruel, 63 years old. “The recipe for success? I do not know it, I never premeditate, I advance.” Sixteen songs linked with enthusiasm, coherence, solidarity, and just what it takes with apple rhythms and apple arrangements (the great secret), to temper its concern – the passage of time, the dangers of living, the planet.
Again, word of love, embrace, fall and hope. Title of a famous seminar of the good Doctor Lacan: again (1973). Sixteen scenes full of going, advice to young poets, necessary memory, to the cadence of homemade rhythms … Farandole to the great merry -go -round of life, hand in hand, once again leads the dance. We already have it in the ear.
Simple pocket: photo and graphics (Poncharra, Connault), sobriety, halftone, doors, a thwarted reflection, everything sounds just under a false air of Magritte … Bruel, precisely, on November 22, returns from Brussels. At the North Terminus, brasserie de la Gare: “Barely arrived, I was led to the Magritte Museum … wonderful, I knew a few canvases, of course, but there … Later, the welcome from the public surprised me. does not see stronger songs, others less, I have been waiting for this for so long. “Playful look, it spins two cent at Table 6 which suits it better.
Sixteen titles
Artistic director without moods (“The common thread is me”), very aware, Bruel knows how to entrust his autobiography to others. It is knowledge: “The voice is the signature.” Thus, invited on board the album with the singer Hoshi, Mark Weld offers her a text. Bruel is recognized in the moment. From the same Weld, letter to the con: letter from a sick child, addressed to his “crab”. A small waltz, a charming Rigodon with chorus, changes everything. Music changes everything.
It scrolls, it goes, it gets carried away (dance for me), it suddenly sounds tragic. An extract from the last letter to Mélinée de Manouchian, written a few hours before execution, read in bare voice: “There, we could not sing.” Follow the words of Paul Ecole, faithful among the faithful, like Romain Didier or Félix Gray (this world). Of course, Manouchian, Aragon and Ferré, the red poster … Paul Ecole and Bruel know their audience of young people. How to renew memory without recovery?
In the taxi, a specialist on the radio: “Young people are not interested in politics, blah-blah-blah … They no longer read …” Bruel: “On the contrary, they put on the table of subjects Central, ecology, epidemics, migrants, it is imperative to talk about it [we talk about it, words and music of Bruel]. My songs speak better than me. Me, if I speak, I paraphrase. “He can Take the sentence of Bernanos which serves as an epigraph in the announcement of Jean-Marie Straub, filmmaker: “When I am dead, tell the sweet kingdom of the earth than I loved, more than I dared to say it . “
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