Name: Jacques Higelin - Cigarette (cover) by fabde
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: Reprise d'une magnifique chanson de Jacques Higelin (album BBH 75)

Très belle interprétation et production, très réussi bravo!

Vapoteur en herbe , c'est pas mauvais cette version !!

yes !!!! j'adore ce morceau, et cet album!! bien produit bravo

Just out of the mind, fingers and DAW! A bit emotional, darkness, light, melancholy, hope and of course...piano! In other words...the way it usually goes when you visit my page, enjoy the listen and THANKS for listening! :-)

SunDown

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus  is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces.  Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace.

The Two Faces Of Janus (Contemplative Mix)

Beberán
hoy
(el) tereré
con
su humo diurno

Ubicar
el
oxige(no)
en
zigzag eventual

La punta
del
uquele(le)
se
acaba sola

En Uxmal
el
efecto (del)
pez
requiere volar

Un jeque
que
(se) ufana
de
la hojalata


U N  J e Q u e  D e (L)  o x (i) G E n O

D i ó g e n e s  T a c u a r a

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Un jeque del oxigeno

This week's Junto is to make something inspired by a nursery rhyme. Wales has many wonderfully evocative and sometimes frankly bizarre nursery rhymes, I went with one of the former "Tŷ Bach Twt" (Little Tidy House" - in which our protagonist will be forever content listening to the wind blowing on his door every morning and watching the waves outside.  I took the notes and played around on my keyboards a bit to evoke the wind and waves, though it ended up a little darker than I was intending - probably because I can hear the wind and waves outside my studio and I am feeling a bit chilly!

More on this 571st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Child’s Play (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a nursery rhyme) – at: https://disquiet.com/0571/ 1

This week’s project was proposed by Junto participant El90.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0571-childs-play/

TyBachTwt (disquiet0571)

Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.

Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.

Track notes:

Something a bit different this week and certainly something I couldn't perform in SuperCollider! 

For as long as I've been seriously making music (25-ish years) I've written songs as part of that continuum. Sometimes the songwriting has become my primary activity and other times it's been consigned to the background. My 30s during the 2010's were pretty interesting in that regard. I'd started off not writing lyrics (let along performing) for quite sometime and then mid-decade songwriting and performing became my primary creative activity. That's where and when this song, "Queen Tide" first materialised. 

It's a song that's been hanging around for about 7 to 8 years now and I've never been able to settle on a structure that feels quite right. Initially, it fell square into a strummed acoustic folk idiom and I'd often perform it under my Garden Ruin moniker with my friend Tom accompanying on guitar. I've included a video of a live performance from back in 2017 that gives an indication of what it sounds like and how I've attempted to record it in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0kNIsKyro

For whatever reason - and about 12 versions later - it just hasn't happened. As this year began, I realised I hadn't worked on songs in quite some time and thought it might be time to revisit some older material and see if it motivated me to work on some newer material. I was up super-early this morning and upon seeing the Junto prompt this morning my thoughts drifted towards revisiting "Queen Tide" and approaching it a bit differently.

Turning my thoughts to a song like "Queen Tide" could have also been the byproduct of the bizarre climactic interlude that has interrupted an otherwise straightforward summer here in Adelaide, South Australia. For the past couple of days, wind gusts have been huge, a cold southerly whipping from the Antarctic has dumped rain and the skies have looked volatile and foreboding. It's pure climate change stuff. "Queen Tide" is about climate change as well and is written from the perspective of wandering around my hometown of Normanville on the Fleurieu Peninsula in the aftermath of a climactic catastrophe.

One of the things I've always liked about the song is the use of an Em sus9 (or Em+2) chord in the main verse. My partner Lauren has often referred to this as the 'Twin Peaks' song, since the melody and structure does echo the TP theme a little bit. It's always sounded fine on guitar, but this morning I thought I'd change it up and find a way to replicate it on piano. I've been listening to a lot of John Cale's work lately as well, so I thought I'd drop the key by a few increments and sing it a bit lower.

So that's how it started and I spent a few hours on it with a few overdubs that turned into several. That was what became the 'kitchensink' version, completely with an 'iPad pedal steel' in the bridge and two simultaneous sets of algorithmically programmed drums. I've spared you of the 'kitchensink' version and presented a more sensibly austere version with a bit of additional keyboard accompaniment, restrained guitar and backing vocals.

[Disquiet_Junto_0579] Queen Tide (redux)

Purple Light City

The soundtrack to my third and latest novel, Head House. A journey inside the consciousness of a dying man. A difficult yet fulfilling book to write, the music was somewhat easier and I hope has an optimistic ambience.

I would be grateful If you would share the link below on your social media, if you feel comfortable doing so.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-House-Mr-Nick-Davies/dp/B0BZF8V4X2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SUAC1IJ6ORN6&keywords=NICK+R+DAVIES+HEAD+HOUSE&qid=1682868651&s=books&sprefix=nick+r+davies+head+house%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-1

Thanks as always and be good

Jacques Higelin - Cigarette (cover)

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