Serge Gainsbourg inspiration!

[Mr. Liszt]

Where ya at Chucho?

I was recently introduced to Serge Gainsbourg recordings and while I have written several pieces that I attribute the inspiration for to these listening this is the first piece I have fully produced.

Here is the concept behind the song.

There is too much for me to explain here. But in short, a relationship or something resembling a relationship exists between two people. One of them appears to have no earthly idea of how to express themselves in a traditional way. Still, the other either has no doubt that he/she is indeed loved. But on the other hand, maybe he/she is completely insane and delusional. You decide. Either way, the instrumental sections were intended to have great beauty. Peaceful and perhaps tragic. They are meant to express something that cannot possibly be put into words.

Definitely not pop and more impressionistic than I usually am.

I had a poet friend collaborate with me on the text.

"Happy Valentine" - tentative title.

You're like a beautiful storefront
of all named-brand jacket and jeans
behind steel and glass.
I brush the hair out of your face
as your sleeping beside me
You bat my hand away and say something nasty.
But all I hear is this:

Beneath the rubble there is you and I.
I'm counting my breaths by and by.
I brought you da - d - daisies.
I sat them in front of you while you were reading.
You said nothing.
But in your silence I heard this:

You gave me a key and set me loose
in a city of a million doors.
I've got a compass for you to be found by I.
I stumbled and fell on the concrete once.
I bloodied my arm.
You stretched no warm hand
but just laughed like this:

[butterfly]

Text is beautiful, like a good poem should it encapsulates all the unsaid things which define a relationship, the mystery which lies beneath, and it kind of celebrate the beauty to be found in ordinary things. I like the washes of sound I think they are appropriate and sympathetic to the mood......I'm not utterly convinced by your pacing of the delivery of the text always, sometimes it's too exagerated where simple might have more impact and sometimes I feel you could linger a little longer. However it needs some sort of counterpoint I don't know if you feel maybe a sort of breathy faux naive female vox might break the spell but I think it might enhance it. I do want to hear a melody and I think there is one there. Anyway hell why not got he whole hog female vocals, pithy french lyrics. The vocals as they are are fine but I can hear someone struggling for breath at the end of a phrase. Neverthless a great lyric, truly!

[gregkat]

Fantastic. Big fan of Serge. These types of melodic interludes transcend and inspire. You are very talented.

[Mr. Liszt]

Thanks for listening. I appreciate it. This unfortunately (or actually perhaps fortunately) isn't the kind of track one can pull up on some laptop speakers and immediately absorb the sense of it all. It requires attention. Maybe it's the kind of track that one would value if one already had some pre-existing interest in this artist.

I quite like the text to this too. Especially this clever bit:

"I brush the hair out of your face
as your sleeping beside me
You bat my hand away and say something nasty."

The person is "sleeping" yet somehow "bats" the others hand away. "Sleeping" in one world maybe - but not in another. Subtle.

[LeMauce]

Really nice shit men... Damn respect. I would only if i was behind the mix table putt a bit more low-end and that beautiful org abit EQ in the top.