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Charles And Sylvester

from Partitions by Orouni

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    Le 45 tours Allora comporte deux enregistrements de nouveaux arrangements instrumentaux de titres de l'album Partitions (2019).
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    Composé par Orouni
    Arrangé par Mathieu Geghre
    Enregistré et mixé par Romain Dowska au Studio du Poisson Barbu
    Masterisé par Jonathan Reig au Studio EdRoom
    Pochette : Pascal Blua
    Mélie Fraisse : violon
    Mathieu Geghre : piano
    Anne Gouverneur : violon à cinq cordes
    Maëva Le Berre : violoncelle
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    «Mes deux derniers albums, Grand Tour(2014) et Partitions(2019), ont été conçus autour d'idées principalement musicales. Et même si les paroles de ces disques étaient également liées à ces concepts (respectivement le voyage et la dissociation), les chansons jouaient avant tout sur des timbres, mélodies, harmonies et structures, au-delà d'une narration ou même d'un sens.J'ai donc voulu mettre en lumière ce jeu, en débarrassant certains morceaux de Partitions de leur aspect chanté. Se concentrer sur les éléments purement musicaux a pour objectif de saisir l'essence de ces chansons, conçues dès l'origine comme des pièces pouvant se passer de mots. Ainsi, "Nora" contient des mélodies réharmonisées, tout comme des harmonies remélodisées, qu'une interprétation au piano solo a pour but de mieux faire entendre.Par ailleurs, le 45 tours Allora comporte des réarrangements de deux compositions existantes qui s'écartent des enregistrements originaux. La chanson "Aloysius" ne contient pas de cordes, d'où la volonté de présenter avec un violoncelle, un violon à cinq cordes et un violon les quatre suites d'accords possibles de son thème de clavier, ou les deux mélodies distinctes de l'harmonie unique de son refrain.C'est Mathieu Geghre (claviériste et arrangeur pour Olivier Marguerit, The Rodeo...), doué d'une sensibilité à la fois pop et classique, qui a élaboré les adaptations pour piano et trio à cordes.» OROUNI

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lyrics

The river flows to the Northeast - It travels through more than twenty cities
It runs eighty miles before reaching the sea - Reverse its direction, what would it be?

The river is fed by plenty of streams - It only drops less than five hundred feet
It will stay the same, have no worries, if you break it up into tributaries

The donkey met a lion - so he wished he were a rock - The donkey was a rock all day and night
The kittens and the colts went searching for him - The dogs sniffed the rock, it didn’t smell like him

The river was once well known for its waste - calling it water was a mistake
It’s cleaner and you can swim in it today - but who ever thought of changing its name?

Put boards on the side, ship freight up and down - Or harden its surface and then draw a line
In the middle so people’d be able to drive - The minute you do this, the river will die

Sylvester on the hill woke up less and less - And when he was awake, he was hopeless
The nights grew cold, the days grew short - The winter winds blew. It snowed

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from Partitions, released April 19, 2019
Emma Broughton - backing vocals
Steffen Charron - bass, additional guitar
Orouni - vocals, guitar, keyboard
Jean Thevenin - drums
Raphaël Thyss - trumpet, keyboard

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Orouni Paris, France

A fascination for ambitious compositions, a strong attachment to the art of songwriting: Orouni’s songs make room for vocal and instrumental melodies with complex harmonies and instruments that are rarely used in contemporary pop music (balafon, kalimba, mbira ...). In Orouni’s music, the Kinks dance with Chassol, Belle & Sebastian dance with Dylan and Malian music plays with the Beatles. ... more

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