by inkinthewell on Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:56 pm
I think baht and digimarsh are taking this too far. Chauveau is evidently "borrowing" David Sylvian's vocal style, and that's the main reason I posted the link. But from there to blaming Stephan Mathieu and Bill Callahan, of all people, is way too much. It is clear from the preceding 3 comments that they have not gone deeper than the info on the page i linked, so let me add this, from Mathieu's label website:
"Sylvain and I started discussing an instrumental album when we met for the first time in 2009. During 2010 I made recordings for this project, using the instruments I’m having in the house – a piano, spinet, Farfisa organ, zither, french horn, cymbals, as well as recordings of a viol quartet I had written in 2008. This material was arranged and reprocessed then, resulting in my usual abstract soundscapes. To my surprise, once Sylvain heard the tracks he came up with the proposal to add lyrics of some of Bill Callahan’s classic Smog songs instead of further instrumental voices.
I’m still amazed by how he had heard this potential in the pieces, how he placed Bill’s lyrics there, especially since my original material is used for the album as is, without further changes or editing. It is exciting for me to hear my sound in this context, the way how things suddenly start to fall into place. Instead of being classic cover versions, Palimpsest is much more rooted in the tradition of the exquisite corpse."
By the way, I still think the music is good.
And as for "I remember entering you", it's taken from the song "Your Wedding", written by Callahan and recorded by Smog in 1993. I'm no good at remembering lyrics, so I failed to make a connection to DS songs.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - JL 1940-1980