C008 Just passing
Audio clip: Just passing
1 Background
1962, after his first two 45 rpm EP, released his first Alain Barrière 33 rpm 25cm which contains two new songs in addition to the eight already published. Among these, Just passing .
2 The words
A total of 11 stanzas of 4 or 5 lines each, the twelfth, which includes only 2 to is a cover of the last two verses of the 11th.
The stanzas are structured by three: the first two of four lines each are sung very slowly while the third (the chorus?) Which is sung with 5 to strength.
3 Music
An alternating lullaby and loud music that gives this song an interesting dynamic.
four themes
Dream and sleep
Seasons: Spring
The weight of time
The senselessness of the Life
5 Analysis
It is not easy to make a song about the dream, and especially to propose a song on this theme is not too boring for the listener ... Fortunately, Alain Barrier gave us sweet couplets identified from time to time by couplets strongest ...
In the verses soft, we are entitled to visions blurry and fleeting: a city, a great river, a love, the big world ... All that is asleep and is seen with pastel colors like a faded watercolor. And faced with these visions, our dreams poet, throwing flowers into the stream, pray and weep. And then, Currently, our poet wakes up and the song comes to life: the sun burns, thunder rumbling, thundering cannon, all the fact out of its torpor and scares away his dreams, but it does not last and reveries pick up very quickly over.
In fact, our favorite poet tells us of two internal states of vigilance, two levels of consciousness: the half-sleep and waking. First define the day: it is the normal state of alertness, if you do not sleep. It is the state where it is aware and conscious of being, is the state where we see life as it is, with its magnificence and its abominations. The second condition which Alain Barrier we are talking about, half asleep, not sleeping, but an intermediate state and transition between wakefulness and sleep. It is the state where you are in the morning when you're not quite awake yet and we still hovers in morning mist, is the state in which we place the evening before falling into sleep, I dreamed as we dream at night / falling asleep, is the state where you can find yourself in the day when the digestion occurs when a sudden fatigue or after a simple cold beer ... In this state, the imagination takes precedence over reality, everything seems simple and easy, the difficulties of life disappear, magic takes over because you just think of a difficult passage to the act for it to pass immediately and effortlessly. When, in the song, it comes to a city, a large river, or a love of the great world which are all asleep, in reality, this is not true at all, because it is is the spectator himself swimming in the half-sleep and perceives its environment as all asleep. The best evidence is that this environment does happen from time to time to get him out of his torpor.
For me, the question is whether the dream is the normal state and the alarm the exception, or if the sleep state is the normal state of alertness and dreaming is the exception. In this song, Alain Barrier gives priority to the dream, which is interspersed with passages in the waking state induced by external stimuli Violent knew the sun burn, thunder, the roar of cannon. But rather than direct assistance to his brothers wounded, our poet prefers to take refuge back in the soft warmth of her half-sleep cowardly flight from reality, an admission of impotence before the brutality of the world, passive and indolent one who lacks the strength and willingness to confront reality, to confront the people and things as they are and not as he wanted them to be. We find this behavior already in love with Cathy, who prefers the blur of her imagination Cathy, if you loved the reality of a rejection or an acceptance ...
In truth, I do not buy that song, probably because I do not fall, that I did not find, I found that even if an internal state that I myself too well known in the past, also probably because, in its way, this song is too well done. The dream environment is probably very attractive to a poet, even without going to the artificial paradise dear to Baudelaire, wandering freely in the house can get mad at the poet in search of inspiration for new ideas ... as dear to Surrealist automatic writing, in a state of letting go between sleep and waking up at the edge of the hypnotic state. And then, what meaning could be our life if we were permanently in the internal state of waking dream? In this song, I totally rejects the glorification of cowardice against the other as much as yourself underlying philosophy of this song. Having well just passing to say ...
6 Sources
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradis_artificiels
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Paradis_artificiels
http:// fr.wikisource.org / wiki / La_Folle_du_Logis
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/% C3% 89criture_automatique
Jacques-Deric
Barriérophile heterodox and iconoclastic
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