De Mòrt Viva

Description

Built like an invented tarot game, the album De Mòrt Viva explores the idea of a contemporary paganism in ten jubilant, humorous, and spiritual odes. Auvergnat Occitan takes center stage, deploying its metaphorical and polysemous mesh, imbued with the particular candor of a newly acquired language. Melody is born from the word, the poem gives rise to the song, in a form that might distantly recall, without the erudition, the trobar, the art of the troubadours. In this album-game, each track describes a possible situation, with its emotions and typical stakes, its often reversible systems of forces whose meaning escapes Manichaean thought. Drawing on the ageless figures of Carnival, these ten arcane songs may perhaps bring to our consciousnesses something to think differently about contemporary concerns. Always hybrid and exploratory, Sourdure's music reveals itself here in a new guise. Exoskeleton or chemical revealer, the electronic camouflages itself in the song's rough edges as if to blur its contours. Carried by an armada of percussion and wind instruments, the voice naturally takes its stronghold, whispering, savoring the langue d'oc like a mulled wine.