Autant que je te le dise, ayant déjà plus que parlé du dernier film de Sean Penn, j’ai franchement hésité avant de poster ici la chronique du premier effort solo d’Eddie Vedder (qui est quand même le chanteur d’un des plus grands groupes de rock je te rappelle, faut pas déconner, nan je te ferai pas l’insulte de te dire lequel). Mais voilà, après moult écoutes, cet album – et les chansons qui le composent – sont tout simplement d’une beauté inévitable.
Je ne reviendrai pas sur le film, qui m’a émerveillé, je te l’ai assez dit. Une fois mise de coté la façon dont les chansons folk subliment la photographie et les images, on peut s’attarder sur le charme minimaliste de cette bande originale… Des harpèges simples de Tuolumne, à la voix douce amère d’Eddie Vedder et ses envolées sur Hard Sun (on retrouve toujours chez lui cette espèce de fascination pour les chants indiens, flagrante également sur End of the road) en passant par les ballades au banjo, c’est l’écriture qui est mise en avant: la production, elle, reste toujours en retrait. Ce disque pourrait se fondre au milieu des vieux albums de folk traditionnelle américaine si les paroles n’étaient pas aussi proche des idées dont Vedder a toujours été investi: comme sur Society, un hymne à l’exil où le chanteur pose un regard cynique et désabusé sur notre société, ou Long Nights, et Guaranteed, dont la poésie pourrait résumer à merveille la philosophie de Christopher Mc Candless – qui reste le protagoniste principal de ce disque. Je ne résiste pas à l’envie de vous en retranscrire les paroles tellement cette chanson est belle de simplicité. Les chansons en « groupe » où une section rythmique accompagne le chanteur se révèlent au final les moins intéressantes.
En définitive, que ce soit avec Pearl Jam, seul, ou dans divers autres projets, j’ai toujours été incapable de trouver à redire sur tout ce qu’a fait ce type. Cette espèce de sincérité maladive qu’il dégage, cette vérité, cet engagement, cette façon qu’il a de rester humain en font presque un modèle. Le savoir encore capable d’émerveiller avec une simple guitare acoustique et sa voix me rassure dans cette croyance. Non, cette BO d’Into the wild ne déroge pas à la règle.
En écoute: « Guaranteed »
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cultive ici son addiction à la musique (dans un spectre assez vaste allant de la noise au post-hardcore, en passant par l’ambient, la cold-wave, l’indie pop et les musiques expérimentales et improvisées) ainsi qu’au web et aux nouvelles technologies, également intéressé par le cinéma et la photographie (on ne peut pas tout faire). Guitariste & shoegazer à ses heures perdues (ou ce qu’il en reste).
Lionel
SETTING FORTH
Be it no concern
Point of no return
Go foward in reverse
This I will recall
Everytime I fall
Ahh-oohhh
Setting forth in the universe
Ahh-oohhh
Setting forth in the universe
Out here, realigned
A planet out of sight
Nature drunk and high
Ahh-oohhh
—
NO CEILING
Comes the morning
When I can feel
That there’s nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never
Will never be far from here
Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I’m sad
I’ll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there’s a reason I’ll be
A reason I’ll be back
As I walk
The Hemisphere
Got my wish
To up and disappear
I been wounded
I been healed
Now for landing I been
Landing I been cleared
Sure as I’m leaving
Sure as I’m sad
I’ll keep this wisdom
In my flesh
I leave here believing
More than I had
This Love has got
No Ceiling
—
FAR BEHIND
Take Leave
the conscious mind
Found myself
to be so inclined
Why sleep
in discontent?
Oh the price
of companionship
My shadow runs with me
underneath the Big Wide Sun
My shadow comes with me
as we leave it all
we leave it all Far Behind
Empty pockets will
Allow a greater
Sense of wealth
Why contain yourself
Like any other
Book on the shelf
My shadow lays with me
underneath the Big Wide Sun
My shadow stays with me
as we leave it all
we leave it all Far Behind
Subtle voices in the wind,
Hear the truth they’re telling
A world begins where the road ends
Watch me leave it all behind
Far Behind
—
RISE
Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow
Gonna rise up
Burning black holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold
Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
Suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold
Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole
—
LONG NIGHTS
Have no fear
For when I’m alone
I’ll be better off than I was before
I’ve got this light
I’ll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall
Long nights allow me to feel…
I’m falling…I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I’m falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah…
I’ll take this soul that’s inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I’ll forever know
I’ve got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before
Long nights allow me to feel…
I’m falling…I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I’m falling
I am falling safely to the ground
—
HARD SUN
When I walk beside her
i am the better man
when I look to leave her
I always stagger back again
once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
and when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
when she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
when I see her pin her charm
she just throws it back again
once I sought an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her blues back again
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
when I go to cross that river
she is comfort by my side
when I try to understand
she just opens up her eyes
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
once I stood to lose her
when I saw what I had done
bound down and flew away the hours
of her garden and her sun
so I tried to warn her
i’ll turn to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
and it’s still coming down on me
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
there’s a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
—
END OF THE ROAD
I won’t be the last
I won’t be the first
Find a way to where the sky meets the earth
It’s all right and all wrong
For me it begins at the end of the road
We come and go
—
SOCIETY
It’s a mistery to me
we have a greed
with which we have agreed
You think you have to want
more than you need
until you have it all you won’t be free
society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
When you want more than you have
you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
‘cos when you have more than you think
you need more space
society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you’re not lonely without me
there’s those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you’re keeping score?
Means for every point you make
your level drops
kinda like its starting from the top
you can’t do that…
society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you’re not lonely without me
society, have mercy on me
I hope you’re not angry if I disagree
society, crazy and deep
I hope you’re not lonely without me
—
GUARANTEED
On bended knee is no way to be free
lifting up an empty cup I ask silently
that all my destinations will accept the one that’s me
so I can breath
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they’ll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes…
Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you…
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I’m never what they thought
I’ve got my indignation, but I’m pure in all my thoughts
I’m alive…
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they’re singing with the dead
Overhead…
Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed…