Project : The Lost Symphonies (27/05)

The Lost Symphonies EP is about you and me, all the people creating some musical piece in their own room at midnight or some time in the morning. It’s about all those fallacious melodies that you may enjoy play in the middle of nowhere just because at that exact moment you’re in the mood to feel something you want to transcript musically. In a certain way, this title is some kind of tribute for all the musicians, playing with their senses and their heart, most of the time for themselves.

My own contribution is a collection of songs reflecting different times, moods and relationships with different characters and way of living. I hope you’ll enjoy feel what I felt during all this time.

Someday:

It’s a love song dedicated to the one I love. I wrote it in one night with my acoustic guitar. It had some changes because I used to play it with different bands in which I was. First I adapted it to the electric guitar, then I used a reggae rhythmic feeling to get close to that “chill out” emotion, and then I added some bass lines to make it groovier. Today I feel like I need a female voice to sing that song because to me, it will bring a newly fresh dimension to the lyrics and that’ll sound cool… Unfortunately I’m still looking for a girl to sing that song the way I want it… The solo needs to be improved too, I want something sensitive but not aggressive, with lot of feeling… As “Bold As love” covered by John Mayer would be.

Back Home:

This is the very first song I’m proud of because it results from the collective feeling of four people: Vincent, Hugo, Max and me. First, I wrote the lyrics and the riff for the verses during my exam period back in the summer of 2005. I was all alone in Paris far from my family and friends in Toulon, studying abstract theories that may never be useful for me later and I ended writing a song about a guy who is tired about this way of life and needs to come “back home”. The most important part -that’s to say the chorus- was a problem for us… We had some unexpected inspiration (“Intervilles” theme, don’t make fun on that please) and finally it ended like a powerful and harsh chorus.
L’étau


This song was recorded back to the time when I was in London for my studies. It was the first time I wrote French lyrics and I made a spoof of some “Chanson française” song, inspired by Mickey 3D, Tryo and Cali. I had a lot of fun playing that song because I was laughing at myself and at the same time I was denouncing the easy way of creating simple songs with 3 chords and funny lyrics that don’t make much sense… Like many popular “chanson française” artists do.
Rap song


This total delirium is once again inspired by all this “music” I see on TV or whatever… I’m so tired of these French poets who’ve got nothing to say, with simple samples on playback backgrounds… So I wanted to give it a try to get that fuckin’ proof that it doesn’t take the soul of an artist to create this… It seems that I ain’t wrong regarding the opinions of friends listening to that spoof of “p’tain chuis venere elle me les a brisé en 2 t’chulé!”. Honestly, I think this song deserves a good production in order to have something stunning and loud. I was surprised to get close to that “rebelle de la society hip hop” voice… Maybe I would prefer to have a nice voice to sing, but things are what they are… And it’s still better to make what you’re good at rather than struggling for something you don’t manage to do well.


Further, I have some ideas in different ways: beach-like songs, metal stuff, emo melancholic drama… The thing is, it gets difficult for some reasons:

* Most of the time when I got the ultimate idea it’s just not the right moment: too sleepy, or working, doing some stuff… Hence I CAN’T grab my guitar and just play that melody inside my head in the exact representation I got of it… So frustrating and irritating!
* I clearly got a lack of means to fulfil my dreams… This proverb describes well the difference between theory and reality, if only I could record in a studio with lots of instruments and studio musicians, singers and producers… What a dream it could be! But still, I just play with what I got, with my guitar so attuned, and my voice so out of myself…
* Sometimes I can’t reach what I want to play. Broken dreams and stupid hopes I know… Sometimes I feel like others don’t care about my stuff, my music, most of all when I try to get serious… I feel like ridiculous it’s boring… and a pain in the ass.



Whatever the matters, this is the first act of my tracks, hope you’ll lend an ear or two one of these days…

To be Continued…