Le titre dit tout : cette liste de mes "morceaux favoris de moi" est appelée à changer de temps à autres. Parfois juste l'ordre et parfois de nouveaux morceaux. Ou les deux.

The title says it all : this list of my "favourite tunes of mine" will be modified from time to time. Sometimes it'll only affect the order, sometimes there'll be new stuff. Or both.

My everchanging favourite songs of mine

Un échantillon des chansons calmes que je produis en masse afin de ne pas réveiller les enfants quand je compose le soir.

Paroles et musique : Yann Vienne (sauf exceptions mentionnées dans la description du morceau)

Morceaux calmes

Open for collaboration!

Second and cleaner version (for original dirty version go to http://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens/everyones-dirty).

Everyone is Dirty is a great American band I've been following on SC for a while now. This is a modest tribute to how good their songs make me feel. <3

Try them yourself: loads of great, fresh, greasy, original, indie yet indescribable really, really, really cool tunes you can listen to and download for free at https://soundcloud.com/everyoneisdirty

Lyrics:

Clock rings and I smash it down, 
Sure as hell don't wanna get up, 
Face another new day as a clown, 
For the world, clown for the fuck up.

You say, the sun is out, 
But I don't care, let me stay in. 
End is coming without a doubt 
And I don't believe in nothing I'm seein'...

Guess you should dump me now, 
Town is full of greater guys, 
Can't say that I want a row 
But neither do I wanna be nice...

God knows I love you, girl, 
You're so wild and clever and pretty, 
I'm the swine, baby, you're the pearl, 
Please, help me: everyone else is dirty...

Everyone's dirty... Everyone's dirty...

You smile and poke my side, 
Tickle me, make me laugh, feel alive, 
What good is it to fight 
In this time and age? You drive

Me wild but make me happy, 
Feelin' a bit less of a bum, 
You say, music is good for me, 
You kiss my lips and put on an album

Everyone's dirty... Everyone's dirty... 
Everyone's dirty... Everyone's dirty...

Everyone's dirty (ironically cleaner version)

A song whose text was written (and is sung) by my wife, Kennou. I took care of the music. Hope you like the result.

Yann Vienne.


In Anybody's Life

This track is just here as the futile and useless proof I can keep on writing simple songs (corny songs?) even though my left index finger is slightly damaged and so unavailable for guitar playing at the moment. There you go, Mr Index, I don't need you! Ha! (but please mend soon, cos it's definitely more comfortable with you, to be honest).

Corny music, absconse lyrics and maimed guitar playing/vocals: Yann Vienne

Picture by David Winningham: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwinning/

Wrap around this frame of mine // What is blind with warmer hues
Press me deep into the ground // Grind me down like a ruse
Hide me from the neverlands // Shoot me up with flashing signs
Mark me with ungodly brands // Show me the lions

...Set me up, lying... Caught here on tape,
...Inside this shrine... There's no escape.

Carve inside the labyrinth // Rush me to the colour lab
Not even the billionth // Of a dent on this slab
Tattoo me with the old ink // No one will see in the grey
Let me lie here on the brink // Light me up with disarray

...Send me out flyin'... A fuckin' ape,
...Doing his time... Willing to drape.

Hang me up and let me dry // Let the scars spin into place
Nothing for the world to try // But keep falling into space
Run your hands on mounting bones // I'll pierce the canvas new again
Cut off all the telephones // Get trapped in this train

Wrap around this frame of mine // What is blind with warmer hues
Press me deep into the ground // Grind me down like a ruse

Grind me down like a ruse


Frame Of Mine

I'd been sitting on this one for a while. It was triggered by one of the examples listed in the song. The tag refers to this eerie feeling that I might have reproduced a song by The Eels (https://soundcloud.com/the_eels). Oh well, we all have influences I guess...

Hope you like it as it is but there is plenty of space for other instruments if you feel you can make it better: violin, cello, very light keyboards, additional vocals or... just about any proposition, really. Everything will be dutifully considered.

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne

Feel like a fool, I feel like a dork,
I must have been dropped by the stork
Screwed up again in a minor way
I guess it must be one of those days

When nothing goes as it should
When you just know that you're no good
When not a thing seems to work and
You can't help feeling like a jerk

Left on the headlights, fucked up the car, got
Caught red-handed in the cookie jar,
Busted my knee and locked myself out,
I guess you see what I'm on about

Shoulda stayed in my bed,
Wish I could just be sick instead,
Guess I ought not to be so glum
But I do feel a little dumb

Maybe I won't top myself now
Fall off the wagon or take a vow,
Guess I will have to kick myself up
Even if I do feel a prick and a jerk

Even if I do feel a prick and a jerk
Even if I do feel a prick and a jerk


Like a jerk - Open collab

Yet another open collab for this song about the lack of communication (which might well have been inspired by my relationship with my beloved but impossible 5 year-old daughter Saràn).

I'm open to all offers of collaboration should you find this track interesting enough (I've kept it very basic on purpose) but what I especially have in mind would be for another soundclouder to write a chorus (which could take the form of an answer) in the two instrumental parts following verse 1 and verse 2.

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne
Cover art : a tattoo design I've fiddled about a bit with. I haven't found the artist's name but here's a link to the page where I chanced upon it: http://www.askideas.com/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil-skull-designs/

I tell you to... But you won't hear me now,
Sometimes I scream, I do but you will smile anyhow,
I know I can't reach you: there's no connection,
I'll never get through cos you won't listen...

I give you orders: you will turn around, leave me where I stand,
I make you offers but you still pretend that you don't understand,
I'm talking till I'm blue in the face you just don't give a damn,
I know what I say is true and yet you feel it is all but a scam...

Whisper or shout, insane, you just shrug, ignore me all the same,
The messages I send all get lost, sent back to Nowayland,
I stretch an open hand: you look blank, deaf and dumb,
I'll sing this song of sand but you won't want to listen,
You won't want to listen, you will never listen...



You Won't Listen - open collab (and especially open chorus for lyricists / singers)

I've hit a wall and lie here, wondering...

Music, lyrics, guitars and vocals: Yann Vienne

Let me go on mad cos that's all I will
Find out life is rad, let me pay the bill
Let me lose the time and make up for it
Feed me to the lions if you see fit
I will not tell you what the future is
Tell you what to do: you do what you please
I will not linger too much on the past
I will stop in the present, make it last
Does it mean a thing if I feel alone?
Do not feel lonely: I have my phone!
I will just go blind if you make me dumb
Play this deaf note till my hand is numb
Here I go now, ranting and lying again,
Will you take me down, say I'm insane?
I'm not sure I fully disagree
There's no cure to talking about me
Let me play with worlds cos that's all I feel
Mind out the absurd that I steal and peel
From my skin let me shed it all to dust
Let me shut up dead now if I must


Let Me

This is a very simple little something I'm weak enough to find pleasant to hear and infectious to play...

Open for any kind of collaboration. My recording is very lo-fi but can be made (slightly) better if need be.

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne

Walking again but nothing's the same,
Nothing at all can help: now you've gone, now you've gone...

I will go out but I will not shout,
For once I'll shut up and listen: now you've gone, now you've gone...

Now you've gone...

Maybe one day, it will all go away,
There'll be no wrong but right now you've gone, now you've gone...

Now you've gone, now you've gone...


Now You've Gone - Open for collaboration

Just a "lo-fi rêverie" about taking strolls on the city roofs at night... Yeah, like a cat.

The blurry cover art is taken from Frank and Bom's great comics Broussaille (Volume 3, La Nuit du Chat). You can purchase it here and it's well worth it: https://www.amazon.fr/Broussaille-LA-NUIT-DU-CHAT/dp/2800116935

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne

Des fois j'aim'rais bien marcher sur les toits
Glisser sur les tuiles la nuit entière,
Jouer comme une ombre au milieu des chats,
Défier l'équilibre au bord des gouttières,

Pouvoir m'élever au-dessus de tout ça,
Eclairé d'en bas par les réverbères,
Etoilé d'en haut par la lune et sa
Douceur tamisée jetée sur la Terre...

Plus rien ne compterait alors
Que cette noirceur teintée d'or
Que ce satin sous mes pas
Que de passer de toit en en toit

J'imagine le vent, la vie aux fenêtres,
Les moments intimes que je volerais
Avoir tout le temps, comme qui vient de naître,
Connaître l'infini, de tout dénué,

Aller indécent, sans ni dieu ni maître,
Tutoyant l'éther comme un échappé,
En électron libre sans plus se soumettre,
Fort peu motivé à s'faire rattraper...

Plus rien ne compterait alors
Que cette noirceur teintée d'or
Que ce satin sous mes pas
Que de passer de toit en en toit...
Que de passer de toit en en toit...

Tellement d'illusions au fond de ma tête,
Tellement d'envie de se détacher,
Je sais bien au fond que c'est un peu bête : (une)
Manière comme une autre d'encore se cacher,

Mais si toi tu viens, si on fait une secte,
On pourra quand même un peu s'amuser,
Se foutre des cons aux sourires infects,
Qui rient de nous voir nous abuser...

Des fois j'aim'rais bien marcher sur les toits
Glisser sur les tuiles la nuit entière,
Jouer comme une ombre au milieu des chats...

Pouvoir m'élever au-dessus de tout ça...
Etoilé d'en haut par la lune et sa
Douceur tamisée jetée sur la Terre...




Sur Les Toits

Short and stupid selfish Sunday song...

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne

Quand le monde m'appelle trop fort
Pour l'aider à déménager,
J'ai tendance, tendance à faire le mort,
A prendre mon sac pour aller nager,

Je m'oublie, j'abandonne mon corps,
Je sais bien l'art de le ménager
Et je mouille ici ou dans d'autres ports
Que dans les rades des enragés...

J'ai piscine, j'imagine
Une humanité plus sereine,
Plus câline, enfantine,
Qui se laisserait flotter dans le zen...

J'ai piscine, je décline
Tous les accusatifs et puis les haines,
Comme un signe, j'ai piscine
Et les enfants qui se démènent...

J'ai piscine...

J'ai Piscine

Un moment de calme entre comique et pastiche, vécu et idéalisé...

Musique, paroles, guitares et chant : Yann Vienne

Pas de chance, t'as vu ? Il pleut,
On va rester près du feu,
Vautrés sur le sofa
Avec les deux gros chats,

On va pas faire grand chose,
Savourer à petites doses
Le ciel gris dans le soir,
Y'a vraiment rien à voir...

Pas de chance, on est en vacances
Et la maison est rangée,
Je sais à quoi tu penses :
Mes copies sont corrigées,

J'ai même pris un peu d'avance,
Tous mes cours sont préparés,
Ça fait drôle, quand on y pense,
D'avoir le temps de s'ennuyer...

Quelques jours restent au compteur,
Pas de chance, faut en profiter,
Zapper un peu toutes les peurs
Et juste se laisser aller,

Lundi ce sera les secondes,
Les premières et puis les term',
J'entends le tonnerre qui gronde...
J'écoute trop Vincent Delerm !

Pas de chance

Sad, sad, sad Saturday night song.. or is it? Choose how you understand the final line...

Note: I hereby acknowledge that on the same theme, Brel's "Orly" is a million times better than this. At least...

Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals: Yann Vienne

We're sitting on a bench, the sun is shining high,
You take my hand and clench it, something's about to die,

Summer's in the air, you're all I need to know,
I feel a fright, I feel a scare, I'll have to let you go...

Guess I can see the train, so we've run out of time,
I'm looking at a stain, oh, should I toss a dime?

You say it won't be long, only a year or so,
Why do I hum this song, why do I have to go?

I'm drowning in the stream, I should take you away,
Maybe it's all a dream: I'm gonna wake up, hey?

You kiss my face and smile, say I love you and rise,
The girl at the turnstile with kaleidoscopic eyes,

I guess it must be you, about to turn away... 
I guess it must be you, about to turn away... 

You kiss my face and smile, say I love you and rise,
The girl at the turnstile (with) kaleidoscopic eyes,

I guess it must be you, about to turn away,
I guess it must be you... that's decided to stay...

I Guess It Must Be You - Open for collaboration

I didn't manage to get the distortion I wanted on that one. Somehow my Korg pedal and my Tascam recorder don't seem to get along very well. Consequently this version is still quieter than I'd like it to be and my solo sucks as usual but I like the 2-voice effect. 

Call it a work in progress I guess. :)

Happy camper (extended II)

Hi,

My collaborations are still at the following pages: 
https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens-and-ko 
https://soundcloud.com/ns-hugo
https://soundcloud.com/spidersapiens

But most of them end up being reposted here anyway...

Apart from these, I sometimes repost stuff from others that I've particularly liked but I only do so for 24 hours so as not to clog my own stream too much (nostalgic sigh for old SC...).

And who am I exactly, then? Well, my name's Yann Vienne and I'm a French teacher of English living in Alsace, near Germany. My hobby is to write and perform simple little songs in French and English and since discovering Soundcloud to post them for everyone to hear and my ego to inflate. My wife and some friends appear on certain tracks. 

Please don't hesitate to leave a comment, be it positive or negative. And for regular updates you can visit my Facebook page (and "like" it if you please) at : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Non-Sapiens/231217246890785?sk=wall

Bonjour,

Je m'appelle Yann Vienne, je suis prof d'anglais et je vis en Alsace. Mon hobby ? Composer de petites chansons sans prétention, les enregistrer avec les moyens du bord et poster ces petits brouillons sur Soundcloud. Et depuis quelques mois j'ai un VRAI groupe que vous pouvez écouter ici : https://soundcloud.com/nonsapienslive

Now You've Gone - Open for collaboration

Non Sapiens