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Gospel et le r​â​teau

by Ghédalia Tazartès

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Souffle 02:24
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Le crapeau 01:56
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Andante 02:15
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Prédiction 01:43
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Le sauveur 02:44
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Le râteau 01:52
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Gospel 01:23
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Enfance 02:38
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Pas à pas 02:14
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Trop tard 00:30
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Moi-même 01:13
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Patience 00:36
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about

Ghédalia Tazartès left us in February 2021 when we had just finalized the editing and the cover art of his new album with him. Unfortunately he will never see the finished object. This record is therefore particularly important for us. He opened his archives to us so that we could select unpublished pieces with him and organize them in two long suites (indexes have been made on the CD for a more convenient listening) . This work took almost two years (finding the pieces among dozens of sometimes very old CD-Rs, checking that these pieces had not already been published, processing the sound to obtain an aesthetic unity and a coherent order, etc). This record is therefore a melting pot of unreleased tracks which cover a large part of his career. You can hear a few guests perform on some of the tracks (mostly vocals parts). As for the lyrics, apart from Ghédalia's own personal poetry, he wrote music for two texts by different poets, that he performs himself in a more or less comical way or on the contrary very intense (the final on a text by Antonin Artaud)!

About the cover. During an art exhibition in 2018, Ghédalia really loved a series of photographs by Isabelle Magnon and immediately asked to use them for the cover of a future album. It is therefore these three photos (two for the LP version) which illustrate Ghédalia Tazartès' final album.

Review in Vital Weekly 1319 :
Defying classification, this self-taught musician created his own space in the underground of France, named his music 'impromuz', rarely performed and got global recognition only in the last twenty years or so of his life. Applying for a musician's P-3 to visa to perform in L.A. in 2019 which means an expert in the field has to send a testimonial to the US Immigration Service. He got his from Kim Gordon.
Parisian Ghédalia Tazartès died last year. This release is his final one and contains unpublished music spanning his whole career, moulded into two long suites. Lyrics are based on his own personal French, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Italian poetry. Furthermore, he used a text by French-speaking Belgian symbolist Émile Verhaeren. And the last track is based upon a text by French surrealist Antonin Artaud written during a stay in a mental asylum. My French is unfortunately not good enough to understand everything. The music in these tracks are a hodgepodge of gospel music, shuffle beats, ethno-oriented melodies, nineties alt-rock guitars and interludes that could come right of a lost Residents demo. Tazartès uses one text twice with a different background, and the whole gets another meaning. As these tracks span a few decades, the mastering is excellent, and it sounds as if each track is made today and consecutively. And lastly: Tazartès delivers the texts with conviction and sincerity. In other words: this is a fantastic release! (MDS)

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released January 4, 2022

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