The idea for the song comes from a flashback. One morning in July 1969 (it was a Monday) I woke up, turned on the TV and observed the images coming live from the moon. I was a child but that memory has always stayed with me, as if it was yesterday
The original musical objects
The song was built using a reference musical object written in March 2001 (m064) which was then integrated with a piano break composed of two further musical objects
1 - m056: written in August 2023 is based on a descending chromatic bass
2 – m050: written in July 2023 contains a melody obtained from a modulation relatively distant from the basic key
The final take, which resumes the basic key with an unprepared modulation, is exclusively harmonic as the voice is replaced by 6 'clean' Fender Strat leaks which cross each other, being displaced in space and time
Original lyrics (in French)
La lune est née
Dans un ciel dessiné
Elle sort de la brume
D'un jour passé
Moi je suis vivant à l'intérieur
Moi je respire
Chaque instant tel une fleur
Splendide lune
Prier pour moi
De la tribune
D'un jour qui’en finit pas
English translation
The moon is born
In a drawn sky
She comes out of the mist
Of a day that has passed
I'm alive inside
I breathe
Every moment like a flower
Splendid moon
Pray for me
From the stand
Of a day that never ends