Tuesday, July 12
Mary Moor - Pretty Day
MP3 Of course I know very little about this song or the 7" to which it belongs, except that it was written and produced by Guillaume Loizillon, with aide électronique from artist and computer enthusiast Claude Micheli. The two have worked together on various projects since 1983, even lending their expertise (under the name CY1) to Hector Zazou for his seminal African/experimental fusion album with Zairean singer Bony Bikaye, Noir et Blanc. Zazou talks about Loizillon and Micheli's madness in an interview (translated by moi-même):
"I brought it [the initial work with Bikaye] to the studio of two guys who just started collaborating with me: Guillaume Loizillon and Claude Michelli [sic]. Marc Hollander calls them "plumbers" because they were using these modular synths with heaps of cables that hung everywhere. You got the impression that they were going to pull a monkey wrench out of their pocket to fix the pipes."
Yeah, yeah. Synths, 1983, cold lyrics chanted by a French chique, blah, blah, right? Well could someone explain why early free jazz exponent Barney Wilen has a curious, nonchalant tenor sax solo throughout the song? Weird and wonderfully textured, this one. Oh, and indie bands and Deee Lites everywhere, check it out: These guys were using the Casio beats way before you did.
Help me out on the lyrics, though. I'm not positive I have all the French correct.
Mes yeux bleus dans tes yeux noirs.
C'est un beau jour pour mourir.
Ni espoir ni désespoir.
Si on (ne) s'aime pas
Qui nous aimera?
It's a pretty day to die.
My blue eyes in your black eyes.
It's a pretty day to die.
It's a pretty way to lie.
Je suis armée jusqu'aux dents*
Plein d'amour pour mon amant*
Dormir dans tes yeux longtemps.*
*Thanks to concept.of.xeno for lexical help!
Comments
Thanks for the great tune! Loving that old skool synth action.
I've been enjoying your posts lately. It's good to have you back after your old spot on the web disappeared!
Lexical help needed ?
Got this single and I dug it up a few years ago and spread the music round synth buffs and it surely has become a killer...
Lyrics are:
Je suis arm?e jusqu'aux dents
Plein d'amour pour mon amant
Dormir dans tes yeux longtemps
Dormir dans tes yeux longtemps
«It's a pretty day to die.
My blue eyes in your black eyes.
It's a pretty day to die.
It's a pretty way to lie»
The third line should read: It's a pretty WAY to die