Un oiseau s'est posé

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Manset guides us towards what is Manset, takes up his publications and refines them. And to take them up again will be to illuminate them, to reveal them, to enhance them, to tear them from the history books to return them to the tumult, to restore them to the immediate and to consciousness. So the essentials: Comme un guerrier, Entrer dans le rêve, Il voyage en solitaire, Celui qui marche devant, Matrice... Not wanting to simply replace them nor substitute real drums for some drum machines, clean up an arrangement, slip in a few new words. He invited Mark Lanegan (ex-Queens of the Stone Age) to sing with him, Axel Bauer to play some guitars, dEUS to reinfuse themselves into Animal on est mal... He himself has ingeniously surprised himself. Thus, he fished out an unrecognizable playback to re-record Manteau jaune - given a few years earlier to Raphael, present on this album to sing Toutes choses. Then Manset kept to himself, alone, his acoustic guitar in hand, with eloquence and light in precisely Lumière, which perhaps symbolizes the regret of not having known the stage. Time illuminates all these old songs differently, bursts forth an adventurous and rock poetry in a country that refused, at that time, to see the world. President Georges Pompidou, during his press conferences, quoted Paul Éluard. What did Manset propose? If one loved the flight or the distance, one followed him; otherwise, with an ear to the charts, one remained there, a pedestrian of variety. How vast his domains have been! Enki Bilal has sometimes tried to draw them. The photographer Manset also spent his time and tired his triggers to capture them. This is what he sings: the fate that is dealt to us, inhabitants of an increasingly exhausted planet. He tells us of splendor and solemnity in simplicity and wonder, in sincerity. All this is both divination and narrative, with the timeless classicism that is the contemplation of despair. A bird has landed. The raw realism as much as the irrepressible dream of a fascinating, perhaps even dangerous journey. Fortunately, the bluish shadow accompanies us, that of the album he wanted thus, in transparency and pastel. Bertrand Dicale