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mercredi 28 janvier 2015
mardi 17 juillet 2012
Bill Fay - Life is People (2012)
Le retour inattendu d'une légende de l'acid-folk des séventies ! Plus de détail à la sortie de l'album.
"Hard-won wisdom from the forgotten man of British singer-songwriting, retired hurt since 1971's masterly Time Of The Last Persecution. Now in his late sixties, but undimmed as tunesmith and observer of people, Bill Fay returns on August 20, with a third full album, entitled Life Is People, on Dead Oceans. MOJO has heard it and can attest to its moving brilliance, while Bill's collaborators - including Matt Deighton, Mike Rowe and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy - have played a blinder. Close your eyes and let the essence of Bill - wounded, soulful, trimmed with gospel - wash over you."
Voir la chronique de Time of The Last Persecution
"I've recently been listening obsessively to the new BILL FAY LP, Life is People.
I did a swift write-up of it for a forthcoming Shindig and will be doing a much longer piece on him soon.
Here's the short one . . .
BILL FAY: The enigma returns
There's a great scene in the current HBO series Treme, set amidst the chaos, anger and wry fight for everyday dignity and survival that is post-Katrina New Orleans, where a young and recently arrived violinist, Annie, is walking home from a John Hiatt gig with Harley, a street troubadour and sage counsel, ably played by Steve Earle. Annie is dissecting Feels Like Rain, a song she fell in love with at the concert, trying to unpick its greatness by connecting the water-based metaphors to the catastrophe that has befallen the city and seeing in the lyrics' tale of endurance a parallel with the riders on the storm here and now. Finally, Harley reveals the song was written over twenty years ago when "you still had training wheels on your bike and nobody had ever heard the name Katrina – and THAT is what makes it a great song!"
This captures in a nutshell my feelings about Bill Fay and the multiple meanings he holds for me. The man's music has long served as a kind of balm, a personal charm against whatever the world may hurl. His slowly emerging catalogue, consisting obviously of the two early 70s Decca Nova LPs, as well as the retrospectively collated and released Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow and From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock, is full of songs that soothe the soul with their calm and stillness, their repetition, their religious undercurrents; songs that seem deeply moral and deeply wise, without ever being ever remotely hectoring; songs that are opaque and elliptical, which speak of an old England that lives on only in memory and that yet are also somehow timeless. They are also songs I've lived at key junctures in my life. To give but one example, following the birth of my daughter, I played Tiny perhaps a thousand times, clinging to its rapture as we span in a whirl of confusion and delight,
On hearing that Bill was back in a recording studio (one ten minutes from my house!) laying down his first proper LP since 1971's harrowing Time Of The Last Persecution, my initial feelings were a mix of delight at knowing he was still among us and trepidation. Let's face it, these re-emergences rarely deliver more than sentimentality and shadows of former glories. Even when listenable, new material hardly ever hits as hard as long loved early work.
I downloaded my advance zip file of the forthcoming Life Is People LP, noted with some small optimism the supporting cast (which includes Matt Deighton, who's done stints with Oasis and Paul Weller, a few serious session men and Ray Russell and Alan Rushton from the early days) and sat back waiting for the disappointment to kick in. Halfway through the fifth song, The Healing Day, I suddenly found myself in floods of tears as a great sea of emotions somehow connected to my relatively new state of parenthood, my dad and his flat south London tones and my own creeping sense of mortality, surged through me, swept along by the elegiac sweep and slow soar of the strings. I've heard plenty enough music already in life to have a somewhat jaded – or as I prefer to think of it, refined - palette – but this utterly destroyed me. I played it twenty times in a row and was left speechless.
Be learned of this one thing: this is a VERY special collection of music that transcends any notion you may have of old legends retreading the boards. It speaks of endings and darkness, of humility and kindness and it moves more than anything I have heard in simply an age."
I did a swift write-up of it for a forthcoming Shindig and will be doing a much longer piece on him soon.
Here's the short one . . .
BILL FAY: The enigma returns
There's a great scene in the current HBO series Treme, set amidst the chaos, anger and wry fight for everyday dignity and survival that is post-Katrina New Orleans, where a young and recently arrived violinist, Annie, is walking home from a John Hiatt gig with Harley, a street troubadour and sage counsel, ably played by Steve Earle. Annie is dissecting Feels Like Rain, a song she fell in love with at the concert, trying to unpick its greatness by connecting the water-based metaphors to the catastrophe that has befallen the city and seeing in the lyrics' tale of endurance a parallel with the riders on the storm here and now. Finally, Harley reveals the song was written over twenty years ago when "you still had training wheels on your bike and nobody had ever heard the name Katrina – and THAT is what makes it a great song!"
This captures in a nutshell my feelings about Bill Fay and the multiple meanings he holds for me. The man's music has long served as a kind of balm, a personal charm against whatever the world may hurl. His slowly emerging catalogue, consisting obviously of the two early 70s Decca Nova LPs, as well as the retrospectively collated and released Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow and From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock, is full of songs that soothe the soul with their calm and stillness, their repetition, their religious undercurrents; songs that seem deeply moral and deeply wise, without ever being ever remotely hectoring; songs that are opaque and elliptical, which speak of an old England that lives on only in memory and that yet are also somehow timeless. They are also songs I've lived at key junctures in my life. To give but one example, following the birth of my daughter, I played Tiny perhaps a thousand times, clinging to its rapture as we span in a whirl of confusion and delight,
On hearing that Bill was back in a recording studio (one ten minutes from my house!) laying down his first proper LP since 1971's harrowing Time Of The Last Persecution, my initial feelings were a mix of delight at knowing he was still among us and trepidation. Let's face it, these re-emergences rarely deliver more than sentimentality and shadows of former glories. Even when listenable, new material hardly ever hits as hard as long loved early work.
I downloaded my advance zip file of the forthcoming Life Is People LP, noted with some small optimism the supporting cast (which includes Matt Deighton, who's done stints with Oasis and Paul Weller, a few serious session men and Ray Russell and Alan Rushton from the early days) and sat back waiting for the disappointment to kick in. Halfway through the fifth song, The Healing Day, I suddenly found myself in floods of tears as a great sea of emotions somehow connected to my relatively new state of parenthood, my dad and his flat south London tones and my own creeping sense of mortality, surged through me, swept along by the elegiac sweep and slow soar of the strings. I've heard plenty enough music already in life to have a somewhat jaded – or as I prefer to think of it, refined - palette – but this utterly destroyed me. I played it twenty times in a row and was left speechless.
Be learned of this one thing: this is a VERY special collection of music that transcends any notion you may have of old legends retreading the boards. It speaks of endings and darkness, of humility and kindness and it moves more than anything I have heard in simply an age."
mercredi 7 septembre 2011
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution (1971)
Parution : 1971
Label : Universal Distribution
Genre : Folk-rock, Psychédélique
A écouter : Omega Day, I Hear you Calling, Til the Christ Come Back
Qualités : poignant, sombre
Bill Fay, chanteur et auteur de chansons autodidacte anglais, signa avec le label Decca (The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Birds…). Il produira un premier simple, Some Good Advice/Scream in The Ears, enregistré avec son ami Ray Russell, qui « était à la fois un guitariste innovant et écrivait de la poésie et de la prose ». Les attentes du labels n’étant pas claires quant à la suite du contrat, Fay se contenta d’enregistrer beaucoup de nouvelles chansons, parfois rehaussées de banjo, de harpe et de cuivres. Ces chansons ne parurent jamais.
Il commença alors une quête de sens. « Le monde extérieur et la relation que j’entretenais avec lui sont entrés dans mes chansons. » Dans Garden Song, « Le premier vers est le commencement d’une recherche pour un sens spirituel. Je ne cherchais pas à aller à l’intérieur ; je cherchais à m’échapper de ma tête, à me connecter à une chose qui existait d’elle-même. » Il s’intéressa au travail de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, un prêtre et paléontologue Jésuite qui supportait la théorie de l’évolution en défiance de la doctrine du créationnisme. Il avançait l’idée d’un point Omega, un phénomène qui existerait dans le futur, vers lequel tout se destinait. « C’était un concept très optimiste, soulignera Fay. « II croyait vraiment que nous avions une destination et un but ». Un ami lui fit aussi découvrir sa théorie, selon laquelle l’univers dérivait d’un « Spirit of Infinite Life and Power ».
Le label se décidant enfin à lui demander un disque, Fay produira son premier album, simplement baptisé de son nom, et très élaboré, en 1970. Au moment de Time of the Last Persecution (1971), Fay avait continué de se nourrir de sa vision du monde, autour de la narration Biblique, de la vie quotidienne et du ferment politique de l’époque. Il écrivit la chanson titre après avoir vu, au cours d’une manifestation anti-apartheid, la police charger la foule. Cet album allait donc être moins idéaliste et vague que son prédécesseur, et refléter la profonde tristesse face à une société qui semblait produire partout la même corruption et oppression. L’Omega Point se transformait pour lui en jour d’intervention Omega. « Comment cela va arriver, en accord avec ce qui est écrit, depuis Moïse et les prophètes à travers les Gospels et le livre des Révélations, c’était ce que j’essayais de comprendre à partir de ce point », se souviendra t-il plus tard.
Ray Russel produisit le disque, dont le travail fut une nouvelle fois terminé en une journée. Tandis que les paroles de Fay reflètent les temps extrêmes qu’il traversait, la guitare blues de Russell, alternant calme et éclairs cacophoniques, allait dans la même direction. Time of the Last Persecution est un disque extraordinairement magnétique de bout en bout. Malgré l’aspect sombre de ses textes, la paix et l’espoir sont aussi deux sentiments qui brillent à travers la voix de Fay. L’intensité de ses paroles – se reflétant dans leur poésie, leur introspection et la qualité rêveuse de la musique souligné par la guitare blues de Ray Russell laissa à l’époque les journalistes confus. En fait, le disque aurait sans doute davantage trouvé sa place un peu plus tard dans les années 70 en Angleterre, entre les visions apocalyptiques du reggae et les provocations du punk. Bill Fay continua d’enregistrer, mais ne devait pas être signé de nouveau sur un label pour très longtemps.
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