{"id":385,"date":"2022-07-25T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yannickrieu.com\/yannick-rieu-machinations\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:26:43","slug":"yannick-rieu-machinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yannickrieu.com\/fr\/yannick-rieu-machinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Yannick Rieu – Machinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yannick Rieu\u2019s album \u201cMachiNations\u201d , once put in the CD player of the living room, it is then enough of some measures only, songs of children in a \u201cEglise de Brousse<\/em>\u201d then of the felted sound of the saxophone of the maestro to be completely transported, as by magic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Installing a whole universe, or more exactly universes, taking you by the hand to lead you and invite you to go through them, is quite an art. It is that of the musician, composer, arranger\u00a0Yannick Rieu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just let go!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly how I felt when I first listened to the album.<\/p>\n

Ensuite -parce que vous voulez en d\u00e9couvrir davantage- en ouvrant le livret contenu \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur, tout en \u00e9coutant les morceaux qui s\u2019enchainent et continuent \u00e0 vous transporter, vous lisez\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Voyage en Cosmopolitisme<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb sign\u00e9 de Normand Baillargeon (philosophe, essayiste Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois) qui assur\u00e9ment a ressenti la m\u00eame chose que vous\u00a0! Faisons le voyage ensemble dans ce cas. Et vous nous rejoindrez bient\u00f4t, fid\u00e8les lectrices, passionn\u00e9s auditeurs de Couleurs Jazz\u00a0!<\/p>\n

Then -because you want to discover more- by opening the booklet contained inside, while listening to the pieces which follow one another and continue to transport you, you read: \u201cVoyage en Cosmopolitisme<\/em>\u201d signed by Normand Baillargeon (philosopher, essayist from Quebec) who certainly felt the same thing as you! Let\u2019s make the journey together in this case. And you will soon join us, faithful readers, passionate listeners of Couleurs Jazz!<\/p>\n

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So I quote my new travel companion: \u00ab\u00a0It is a known fact that we can travel in space.\u00a0<\/em>But it is also possible to travel within others, transporting ourselves into the mind and imagination of another being, real or imagined, until we are intimately familiar with his hopes, sorrows, fears, and desires<\/em>\u2026 Some artists do it with words, other with images. Still others, such as Yannick Rieu, make us travel with sounds<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Do Buy this magnificent album (the real CD, please). That way you will be able to read the rest of this beautiful text by Normand Baillargeon in its entirety and prolong the journey with us.<\/p>\n

Each of the 12 tracks on this album takes you to different universes, starting with eternal Africa, the origin of humanity and more recently, a little over a century ago, of jazz.<\/p>\n

Here you are, immersed in wonderful worlds like those created by arcade games, cinema, literature and poetry, where you come to imagine or really visualize fantastic landscapes, mountains and rivers, the Sahara, lakes and tropical forests. And then everywhere the sea, the sky and the clouds.<\/p>\n

This album, imagined and recorded before this incredible and especially dark period of Covid, is even better to taste today \u2013 in May 2022 \u2013 when we are just coming out of it, it seems; and when barbarian invasions, dark machinations, climatic disturbances and new inequalities between men, even more blatant, are pointing at the horizon.<\/p>\n