The sound of April 2015...
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser -
'All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun'
and...
Elizabeth Fraser - 'Song to the Siren'
Royal Festival Hall - 6 August 2012
Such a
beautiful and tearing month at the same time.
Feelings and
thoughts from April 2015 come back to my mind, a week before an important election here in
France.
At the time,
the United Kingdom was about to vote and chose to keep a majority that led to
an unfolding series of political disasters.
While
reporting there, on politics, and some other days on beauty, meaningfulness,
art and music, I was overwhelmed by the contradictions of my work.
On the one
hand, I was writing and speaking about the refugee crisis - at its peak that
spring - and about the coming election and the focus on immigration.
On the other
hand plunged into my research in Bristol for my coming book, full of hope but
also expectations, as my research was also blocked by doubts a few days in that
month.
Such an
intense moment.
And here I am
this April, two years later, author of that book, still haunted by my doubts
about journalism and wishing I could do more... once again.
Music is
indeed so profound and human and powerful, it is anything but disconnected from
political matters, because politics is only the imperfect art of choosing how
to live together in a given territory. So it is indeed an amount of affects,
thoughts, feelings from individuals, who, most of the times, forget how
connected they truly are.
And music has
the immediate power to remind us of this connection.
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So much could
be added, but is it really necessary?
Let's talk more
tomorrow...
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