{"product_id":"jean-vasca_chansons-1988-2015-coffret_2021","title":"Chansons 1988-2015 Coffret","description":"« If I became a singer […] it’s to find the fords, the passages \/ Finally break the old straitjacket \/ Celebrate life despite its wreckage \/ Drink straight from the words of sacred alcohols... » It has been a long time since Jean Vasca took leave of the profession, its constraints, logic, and servitudes, and the \"media hype\" attached to it. \"On the margins of the Sorbonne and Showbiz,\" as he wrote. Far from the upheavals, calculations, and assumptions, stage plans and career plans. Like a sage animated only by poetry. Bruno Ruiz, one of his unfortunate companions, considers him \"one of the last lighthouses that intermittently illuminate the ocean [of] song.\" The lighthouse has gone out, and the song drifts even more. \u003cbr\u003e Vasca was indeed unique, atypical in song, with a rare demand, with this awareness, this prescience of building a body of work, whatever the price to pay. He had prices, the most prestigious ones, it should be noted, and the admiration of his peers, as well as the consolation of a large absent public, to whom his art could never reach, the pipes of the media and trumpets of fame being particularly blocked to poetry, like a \"conspiracy of silence.\" \u003cbr\u003e He was a hermit who, from the early seventies, took refuge in Gard, \"in necessary solitude and friendly celebration,\" a few kilometers from Barjac where he initiated the benchmark festival we know, far from the Parisian tumult. With many songs in tune with the place, the South, the sun, and brotherhood. Songs written in the summer, often at nightfall, that speak to us of nature and friendship... \u003cbr\u003e The previous part of this anthology* reported the first twenty years of Vasca's discography, excerpts from ten albums. Here are the eighteen others, excerpts from the last thirteen albums. Until the ultimate one where, sensing the great departure, he bids us farewell: \"Greetings to the people of the lookout \/ Tracking the lines of the horizon \/ Who in their coats of visions \/ Keep poetry warm.\" \u003cbr\u003e Always this flood of images, this life that bubbles, bursting from his verses, images that not a single character crosses, or so few, that not a single story animates. No current events in his songs, except through his political anger... \u003cbr\u003e Jean Vasca is an exceptional artist, a craftsman of a song that has no equal. Who has the audacity, the effrontery to want to break time, to inscribe himself in duration, to prefer the solidity of stone to the whims of sand to engrave himself there. Some work with a chisel for the clumsy; others with fine gouges to best embrace the fullness and nuances of the poetry they generate: Vasca is one of those. Let’s take the bet that, even in the persistence of silence, he will make a mark, an unavoidable and necessary punctuation. That the lighthouse, the \"unknown talent\" that he is, will long be one of the most reliable markers and refuges of this poetic part of song, the only one that, in the end, truly matters. Let us point out and salute this passionate poet, this star igniter, alchemist of the word and spark bearer, this \"Mohican singer of the tribe of survivors.\" \u003cbr\u003e Michel Kemper","brand":"Jean Vasca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58363622097240,"sku":null,"price":23922852.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3540139870824.jpg?v=1788302690","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/jean-vasca_chansons-1988-2015-coffret_2021","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}