TAZARTES, GHEDALIA — 5 Rimbaud 1 Verlaine
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"At last! This is the first new Ghédalia Tazartès record in 10 years! Not that this gentleman was done with his Impromuzic, but he prefers to watch his widowed canary flying & singing in his flatelier than to release records. Anyway, he's back with these memorable & noisy performances of Rimbaud & Verlaine, giving to their poetry the best of tributes." [label info]
"It has been a long time ago that our former star writer The Square Root Of Sub was very excited by a french rock musician named Ghedalla Tazartes, an one man rock band (see Vital Weekly 106 and 112). Then apparently Tazartes disappeared again, and now re-surfaces with this lovely three 3"CD, with six pieces of music, five to poems of Arthur Rimbaud and one of Paul Verlaine. I must admit right at the start that I never read them and only vaguely know what they are about. The bohemian character of both poets are set to music in a great way by Tazartes. Accompanying himself on a keyboard or a guitar (with drum computers), he sings the poems with a great sense of drama and desolation. Even when the french language is somewhat of mystery for people like myself (again: my mistake, I know), one feels the pain in the poems, such as in 'Le Coeur Vole'. It sounds fine, even when I don't seem to share the enthusiasm felt by the square root, so many moons (moans?) ago. Definetly a true odd-ball in what is usually passing through the doors of Vital Weekly, and most definetly great music from a great outsider." [Fdw / Vital Weekly]
www.jardinaufou.com
"It has been a long time ago that our former star writer The Square Root Of Sub was very excited by a french rock musician named Ghedalla Tazartes, an one man rock band (see Vital Weekly 106 and 112). Then apparently Tazartes disappeared again, and now re-surfaces with this lovely three 3"CD, with six pieces of music, five to poems of Arthur Rimbaud and one of Paul Verlaine. I must admit right at the start that I never read them and only vaguely know what they are about. The bohemian character of both poets are set to music in a great way by Tazartes. Accompanying himself on a keyboard or a guitar (with drum computers), he sings the poems with a great sense of drama and desolation. Even when the french language is somewhat of mystery for people like myself (again: my mistake, I know), one feels the pain in the poems, such as in 'Le Coeur Vole'. It sounds fine, even when I don't seem to share the enthusiasm felt by the square root, so many moons (moans?) ago. Definetly a true odd-ball in what is usually passing through the doors of Vital Weekly, and most definetly great music from a great outsider." [Fdw / Vital Weekly]
www.jardinaufou.com