Chansons du gai désastre

Description

This CD was born from the complicity of singer Bernard Ascal (also a painter and poet) and his son, musician and composer Gaël Ascal. Two singular worlds crossing paths for 19 songs to create this offbeat, sarcastic object, combining black humor, gravity, and questions about the present times. Accompanied by the incisive blend of an electric quartet — Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, drums — with an acoustic string quartet, these songs speak of:- loneliness (Aquarium),- the dangers of nuclear power (Le Ciel si bleu si calme),- the proliferation of the human species (Frères Humains),- ordinary self-censorship (Képi),- an unexpected form of generosity (Service-Organes-Surveillance)...At first you laugh bitterly, then you stop laughing altogether when the two Ascal make the mechanisms that close in on our freedoms grind, or when they stir up the fantasies of hatred of the other. Distilling warmth and cold, Chansons du Gai Désastre sound like an energetic call for greater lucidity.