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La floraison

The making...

This piece, which is a contemplation of a sudden rebirth of nature, was created by overlapping both sequentially and parallelly 3 musical objects created in different times.

First 60 sec...
00:00 / 01:03

The original musical objects

1: m071 (April 2001) is the 'central' theme of the piece and contains the verse sung over a base of electric pianos

 

2: m046 (February 2007) is based on a melody which appears 3 times in the development of the song, with different sounds: in the first case the soprano voice takes up some atmospheres present in the 1994 Album Boxes for Foxes, in the second case it is proposed by choirs in counterpoint with the third musical object, at the end it is performed with a Strat solo with a very '60s sound surrounded by the Hammond organ

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3: m092 (September 2023): a counterpoint of choirs is exposed on a background of noisy percussions

m071
00:00 / 01:00
m046
00:00 / 01:03
m092
00:00 / 00:58

Original lyrics (in French)

Et puis soudain un matin

La floraison est là

Je ne me souviens pas bien

D'un endroit si gris et froid

 

Je ne me souviens pas bien

D'un temps si vite passé

Le temps de la vie d'une fleur

Ne nous apporte que l'été

English translation

And then suddenly one morning

The flowering is here

I don't remember well

Of a place so gray and cold

 

I don't remember well

Of a time so quickly passed

The lifespan of a flower

Only brings us the summer

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