#brigitte fontaine

[aspho-dele]

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - C’est normal - album : Je ne connais pas cet homme (1973)

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[undergroundrockpress]

Brigitte Fontaine on stage with Art Ensemble of Chicago, Paris, 1969.

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[mywifeleftme]

335: Areski and Fontaine // L'Incendie

L'Incendie Areski and Fontaine 1973, BYG

The late ‘60s and early ‘70s were when the past half-century of avant-garde developments in theatre, literature, film, and art music began to break through into pop. The results of these early flirtations have a sense of discovery and possibility that has continued to captivate generations of new listeners to this day. Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem’s L’Incendie should absolutely be considered one of the towering classics of the era (and, among the Francophonie, it probably is), but I only came across it for the first time early last year. It reminds me of something from the Velvet Underground / John Cale / Nico universe, simultaneously emblematic of its time and so ahead of it as to sound anachronistic.

On “Les murailles,” tape of Fontaine’s exhalations and what sounds like a kalimba are snipped up and looped to create a tinkling, twitching soundscape that presages the Books or Boards of Canada; the track that follows, “L’engourdie,” layers howling wah-drenched electric guitar behind a pretty acoustic folk pop number that would fit right in on a Brigitte Bardot record; next, the stark “Nous avons tant parlé” could be a theatrical elegy set in a dilapidated seaside church. Every song feels stylistically distinct, but Areski and Fontaine’s creative vision remains consistent; I hear post-punk and Björk and Sonic Youth, and I hear French early music and Berber folk and the ‘50s sound poetry of Henri Chopin in the same measure.

It’s always a challenge reviewing non-English language records because you’re stuck speaking to its purely sonic characteristics, which increases the likelihood you’ll hilariously misread it—call a song a soothing folk idyll when it’s actually about smashing international Jewry or something. With political, lyric-forward stuff like L’Incendie, it also means failing to engage with its message, flattening it as an artwork. (Unfortunately, there is nothing I as a person of French ancestry living in a majority-French city could do or could have done in the past to better interpret this record.) I asked French-language correspondent and girlfriend of the podcast Mea for one of her classic vibe checks, but she told me the reams of notes she took while listening were too dotty to share, so I can only assume hearing and understanding Fontaine’s words in their original tongue unchains some celestial horror.

Few of the lyrics can be easily found online, which forces me to rely on Le Gendre’s analysis, but critic Kevin Le Gendre’s helpful liner notes paint a portrait of a wide-ranging album that engages with recent post-colonialist bloodshed (Jordan’s Black September civil war with PLO forces on “Le 6 septembre”); the medicalization of psychic distress (“Ragilia”); intimacy and coupledom; and much more besides. What I was able to find of Fontaine’s lyrics online have a spiky surrealist poetry to them. From “Après la guerre” (“After the War”):

“Happiness blows The eyelids lie gently The sexes glow The eyes, by moving, make you cum The men returned from the war And on their heads, the grass grows back.”

335/365

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[aquariumdrunkard]

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Sasha Hartslief

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[d0lly-f4rton]

20/10/2023

album of the day

Vous et nous - Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem

every album ive heard thus far by these two have never failed to amaze me. incredible art rock filled with incredible variety and range. fun electronics, percussion, and stunning vocals, worth a listen for sure.

4.2/5 stars

#music recs #music #new music #brigitte fontaine #art rock #prog rock #folk rock #electronics #70s #Spotify

[edgarmoser]

brigitte fontaine - single-covers 1966 - 1972

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[cosmonautroger]

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[already-14]

POEME de PAUL VERLAINE / musique de LEO FERRE

(via Brigitte Fontaine Ame Te Souvient il - YouTube)

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[aspho-dele]

Brigitte Fontaine - Ah que la vie est belle - album : Les Palaces - 1997

[…] Des roses de cristal

Crissent et s'amollissent

Mon amour sans rival

Murmure des délices

Il prend ma taille ronde

Et ronronne sur elle

Pour jouer, je lui gronde

Des menaces cruelles

L'opéra vermeil

S'échappant du laser

Emplit l'air de soleil

Et d'ombres passagères

Ah, que la vie est belle

Soudain, elle éblouit

Comme un battement d'ailes

D'oiseau de paradis

Ah, que la vie est belle

Quelquefois pour un rien

La divine immortelle

Dans le mal et le bien

On marche dans l'hiver

Brillant comme une abeille

Brillant comme un éclair

Qui dure et émerveille

La joie vous souffle au cœur

On chérit l'univers

Comme un enfant de chœur

Son dieu d'éther et de chair

Loin des bombes et des balles

Goulu comme un bébé

Sensuel on inhale

La fumée adorée

Ah que la vie est belle

Soudain elle éblouit

Comme un battement d'ailes

D'oiseau de paradis

Ah que la vie est belle

Quelquefois pour un rien

La divine immortelle

Dans le mal et le bien

Sans rien chercher je trouve

Au détour d'un instant

Une euphorie de louve

Un amour de Satan

Après de sombres heures

Plus doux sont ces moments

Où l'on crie de bonheur

Comme un petit enfant

Encore tes baisers

Vie secrète et changeante

Je saurai te donner

Mon âme si méchante

Ah que la vie est belle

Soudain elle éblouit

Comme un battement d'ailes

D'oiseau de paradis

Ah que la vie est belle

Quelquefois pour un rien

La divine immortelle

Dans le mal et le bien.

#brigitte fontaine #Youtube

[etiennedaho]

La reine des Kékés et son univers raconté par Christophe conte en replay ici :

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[undiscoperlapausapranzo]

#UnDiscoPerLaPausaPranzo - #1221 - 17 Giugno 2022 - Brigitte Fontaine - Comme à la radio - 1969

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#Benoît Mouchart #Thomas Bartel #Brigitte Fontaine #Areski Belkacem #saletempspourlesgothiques #screenshots

[gillesvalery]

MORLAIX (Brigitte Fontaine)

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[edgarmoser]

brigitte fontaine - single-covers 1983 - 2009

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