One of the first houses welcomes you with "outside art" or "art brut", made of carved/painted wooden cuts. A home for Jacques (Cactus) Mauduy. Suddenly... weird fishes:
Grizac, Maison des totems : Drôles de poissons, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (Radiohead reminiscence)
I like synesthesia: when your nerve system routes signals through different/unrelated media. Like our senses get bitten by the worms... and weird fishes. Here are a couple of versions and nice covers. One of the weirdest being Weird Fishes flying animation by Tobias Stretch:
Radiohead - Weird Fishes - Flying animation by Tobias Stretch
Chants des confins (Confines' songs) is one music for each (relaive) day of confinement due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemia. And two lines. Two rhymes. Rarely more. I listened to each song five times in a row before posting it.
So far: Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pink Floyd, Télépopmusik,, Henry Purcell (by Sarah Connolly and Marianne Beate Kielland), Villagers of Ioannina City, Philip Glass with Lavinia Meijer (harp), Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond (a kind of fake on Take five) (and the Stranglers), Mano Negra, Loney Dear, Sarah Vaughan, Deep Purple (and Navarone), The Kyteman Orchestra (Colin Benders), Dominique A (et Alain Bashung), VALD, George Frideric Handel (sung by Nathalie Stutzmann & Philippe Jaroussky), Kings of convenience and Feist, Les Têtes Raides, Yom (Guillaume Humery) and the wonder rabbis, Sting (interpreted by Pat Metheny, Nils Landgren, Esbjörn Svensson, Michael Brecker, Lars Danielsson, Wolfgang Haffner), Andrea da Florentia (Ensemble Syntagma), Ilene Barnes, Marillion, Opeth, Meute (Brass techno band on Disclosure and Eliza Doolittle and a Flume Remix, Osiris, Porcupine Tree (Steven Wilson), The Stranglers (and Mariachi Mexteca feat. Hugh Cornwell), Suzanne Vega, The Nits, The Supremes, Nena, Gov't Mule, Dire Straits, Microfilm, Sylvain Chauveau, Wolves in the Throne Room, Genesis (Peter Gabriel), Barclay James Harvest, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Loudblast, Archive, Calvin Russell, Laibach (The Beatles), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Gérard Lesne, Il seminario musicale), Yaron Herman (and Radiohead again, yes), Samaris, Bel Canto (with the beautiful voice of Anneli Drecker), Sinéad O'Connor (and The Chieftains), Youn Sun Nah, Park Jiha, Max Richter, The Waterboys, Bloc Party, Hubert-Félix-Thiéfaine, Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Paul Robeson, Ernest Melton, Didier Squiban, Connan Mockasin, Nina Simone, Merja Sonia, Chet Baker, Laïs, Joan Baez, Nils Frahm, Kate Bush, Megadeth, Radiohead.
Chants des confins, jour 72 : Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the pleasure dome
Life goes on days after day, the animals are winding me up, the jungle call
Shooting stars never stop, even when they reach the top
Chants des confins, jour 70 : Télépopmusik - Breathe
Another day, Just believe
Another day, Just breathe
Chants des confins, jour 69 : Henry Purcell, Dido and Æneas, III: When I am laid in earth, or Dido's Lament (Sarah Connolly and Marianne Beate Kielland)
When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
Chants des confins, jour 58 : George Frideric Handel - Duet "Son nata a lagrimar", from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Nathalie Stutzmann & Philippe Jaroussky)
Chants des confins, jour 56 : Têtes Raides - Bestiaire
La station en verticale
Pour tout vous dire c'est un fiasco
Chants des confins, jour 55 : Yom (Guillaume Humery) and the wonder rabbis - Kaddish for Superman
With love
Chants des confins, jour 54 : Sting - Fragile (Pat Metheny, Nils Landgren, Esbjörn Svensson, Michael Brecker, Lars Danielsson, Wolfgang Haffner; Jazz Baltica 2003)
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star
Chants des confins, jour 53 : Andreas da Florentia/ Andrea de' Servi - Cosa crudel m'ancide (Ensemble Syntagma, Rosa e Orticha, music of the Trecento)
Se mai la vaga cosa di me fosse pietosa. Morte da me decide.
Witness Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps, returning from a patrol somewhere over France. The year is 1917. The problem is that the Lieutenant is hopelessly lost. Lieutenant Decker will soon discover that a man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles, but also in time, and time in this case can be measured in eternities. [Lyrics from the Twilight Zone, teleplay by Richard Matheson]
[Instrumental. Title from an Greek legend about someone who buried a treasure after being defeated. The Oracle of Delphi advised researchers to look under every stone]
[Instrumental. Comment from Ernest Melton: "But it’s really a message to myself that, at the end of the day, I don’t have to be a slave to trivial stuff in my life. That’s all it is."]
(version instrumentale) Neventi vad d'ar Vretoned! [Heureuse nouvelle aux Bretons !] Ha malloz-ru d'ar C'hallaoued! [Et malédiction rouge aux Français !]
Aamulla varhain kun aurinko nousi (Early in the morning when the sun rose) Yö oli kaunis ja äänesi hellä (The night was beautiful and your voice so tender)
