Cultural Information
Hard OBAMA
[Official Release: March 3, 2010]
Obama is the tenth album from singer Jann Halexander , 7 year career. Singer, director, actor, originally French-Gabonese installed in the landscape of the song text in French, he returned in 2010 with 18 titles where it stays true to his obsessions: miscegenation, family, death, sexuality, between melancholy and black humor.
Jann Halexander back on stage with two musicians in his new collection of songs Vaguely Vaguely Black White , Friday, June 11, 2010, A Archipelago, 17 bd Strasbourg - 75010 PARIS. 21:00.
Subway: Strasbourg Saint-Denis , Chateau d'Eau
Parking: Gare de l'Est, Good News
Reservations: 0 826 02 99 24 (0.14 € / min) / larchipel @ larchipel.net
New songs to listen on http://www.myspace.com/lechanteurjannhalexander [with biography, news, videos]
Jeff Bonnenfant , Press - Trilogy Act 1901 Halexander
disc for sale concert
on Ebay - priceminister- www.apoplexia2008.blogspot.com
Price: 12 euros.
It is also possible to adjust by check payable to Lalouline Editions (57 rue de Bretagne 14000 Caen) or send a payment via paypal at halexander @ voila . en
Disk also available on platforms download
few songs to listen on http://www.myspace.com/lechanteurjannhalexander
videos from the artist on stage at www . youtube.com, www.dailymotion.com
Concert
Full price: 21 euros
Rate reservation: 18 euros
Rate Billetreduc [within the limits of places): 17 euros
ARCHIPELAGO
17 bd de Strasbourg - 75010 PARIS Metro
: Strasbourg Saint-Denis, Chateau d'Eau
Parking: Gare de l'Est, Good News
Reservations: 0 826 02 99 24 (0.14 € / min) / larchipel@larchipel.net
http://www.myspace.com/lechanteurjannhalexander
http://www.apoplexia2008.blogspot.com
http://www.billetreduc.com
http://www.larchipel.net/
http://lucmelmont.canalblog.com/ (Culture and Song )
piano Jann Halexander
first parts: Nicolas Duclos / Maik Darah
http://www.myspace.com/nicocanicolas
http://www.myspace.com/maikdarah
Press Contact / programmers: Jeff Bonnenfant +33680150524
Production Trilogy Halexander
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Read the news
" A directory can arise where the passion "- (Chorus)
"Jann Halexander Pirate French music" (Ouest France)
"Halfway between the 30s cabaret and French chanson / age of 60's Gold "(Kostar)
" A world where blows hot and cold "(Triangle Fm)
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OBAMA
1 - Obama
2 - Matilda (reprise Francis Lemarque, adaptation of Waltzing Matilda, Australian folk)
3 - Tales of an Australian family
4 - Fanfare of our lives
5 - Melancholy always
6 - A song without words and music without
7 - Gabon
8 - People of Color n have nothing extraordinary
9 - A force to delay the wind (in memory of Nathan, Jolyon Derfeuil text)
10 - Life of couples with a dog (cover of the song Nicolas Duclos)
11 - Bridge Verdun (2003)
12 - A Table 2010 version
13 - A Table by Sylvain Yardin
14 - A Table by Nicolas Duclos
15 - A Table, instrumental
16 - Clemence Holiday (reprise Anne Sylvestre)
17 - The Matriarch (live at Theatre de la Reine Blanche, Paris, May 9, 2008 / excerpt from the documentary Rendezvous Secret William Veen)
18 - Question of love and time (preceded by a tango Afro-European)
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OBAMA
text and music: Jann Halexander
2010
A beacon in the night wept with beautiful lights
happy faces have glimpsed a flash
unspeakable hope, hope invincible
fragile hope, but millions of heart dance ...
From Europe to Africa, Oceania, America,
they saw someone who looked like a messiah,
like a new Christ, even a new God,
he could be, oh no ... just a simple human
When reason fails, it yields to the discomfort opposite underground,
then one pours a bright hope on uncertain
but it is a man (x2)
oh it's just a man ...
Obama ... Obama ... Obama ... Obama
Bel illuminated devours or make yourself eat,
beautiful destiny your courage has disarmed
and I want to believe it, keep that mirror that you wave in front of the world filthy
as scavengers watch the Metis who defied the rules cheesy,
unsaid which were piled for centuries, passed on to children,
will you change the deal, otherwise this song is not good!
I want your name engraved on a stele eternal in excess of our mortal illusions, because you're a man (x2)
but a handsome man ...
Obama ... Obama ... Obama ... Obama!
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The OBAMA disk
a song called Why Obama ? I have always regarded miscegenation as a valuable tool to probe the depths, contradictions of the human soul. Benetton's approach does not interest me. Miscegenation erected demagogic message sickens me because the public does not see that this is something complex and sometimes frightening, if that Métis identity is poorly managed. Miscegenation can get a free intense to think that Elsewhere. Where, for simplicity (and caricatured), Blacks and White would break the figure, me, between the two, I can close my eyes and not take sides. Indeed many of my peers did in history. Obama is a song about a man, a Destiny, a shock in the world (not just Western). It's also a song about a man who broke barriers, guided by a powerful inner strength. And to get there, he should be free.
Chronicles of an Australian family is an allegory: a family of crocodiles, bourgeois lives in the illusion of being fully accepted by human society around them. But a crisis arrives in the country, the collapse is the failure ... and then the family finds itself ostracized. Since it was a question in this song-allegory, Australia, I introduced by the French version of the unofficial anthem of the Australian nation, Waltzing Matilda. The French version was created by the late Francis Lemarque in 1956. Note that Matilda is not a woman in the original version, but a blanket in which a laborer, after an exhausting day of work slipped.
Fanfare of our lives, despite the bittersweet tone (this is a terrible obsession with me) wants lighter. The proposal for a stroll in the sea at the end is an invitation to travel. The air of melancholy always came to me in a dream with the words: when we probe the melancholy in the cat watching the rain ...
A song without words and music without is dedicated to people who follow me since 2003. It's also a song about the doubts of the artist that I am, and the need, inevitably criticized, challenged say, write, sing: I exist.
Gabon speak of homeland. But I did not want silly easy. I will not give a fantasy of Gabon. Many Gabonese did not like. Other remercié.J me I always thought People of color are nothing special ... which is also a certain idea of France ...
To someone who asked me what it is for me to France (while we were in debate on national identity), I said I was said France and I am thinking of landscapes ... memories of my mother country ... ... the old aunts of Burgundy that inundate us, my sister and me with gifts ... my uncle who taught me to fish Vendee near a campsite in Limousin (chilled water, small fish delicious when they are fried). I am told
France, they are also graves, paved walkways to the shadows of birch trees and ghosts memories of a war not so long ago ... the taste of brie and salami. France could be a verse of a song by Anne Sylvestre ... is the violence in Paris and Marseilles ... the sweetness of Anjou (Angers, my city, love sweet and sour) ... Finally
Culture is a certain idea of culture. Often ridiculed, pushed around but still alive. France is the country's Song ...
A Force to delay the wind is a tribute common with the director and director of theater Jolyon Derfeuil , author text. Tribute to a friend who was often the choruses at the beginning of my first concerts. Or was she, or it was my sister. Since the death of Nathan , I have been singers.
Life couple with a dog is a song Nicolas Duclos . I really like because it shows how we must face the fact that without a doubt I would ever conventional life with a dog and garden ... the solar aspect of this song is a trompe-eye with. Verdun Bridge is the first song I wrote in Angers, a town of some of my family. Recorded in a studio mediocre campaign in 2003, I held that it is on this disc. She announced 5 years later O Bel Anjou appeared in the album The Marginal .
Place cycle A Table .
For those who are wondering which means cutlery were cross : This is an old superstition, cross knife and fork on a plate would be inviting the devil into the house and bring misfortune. Finally, some people have noticed: yes this song is a sort of echo to the song these people of Jacques Brel . Jacques Brel, Anne Sylvestre, William Sheller, Gilbert Becaud, Pierre-Jean Reginald are my favorite French singers. Some people think I'm influenced by Jean Guidoni, Juliette, Boris Vian or Barbara ... They are great artists but I do not their records, an issue of sensitivity. If I had not been so often compared to Guidoni, I would have been hard to say who he is. Also I was touched when he came to see me in a Paris suburb early 2008 when I played at the Musée des vampires monologue Confessions of a Vampire South African . After we went for a drink at Republic (where I slept) in Paris. An interesting discussion, we talked about the dignity of the artist (and also damage the storm of 1999 on his house) ...
There are many disadvantages to being an independent singer but I do not really have a choice and I'm probably pretty wild. Maybe also that I lack humility. But there is an advantage: I can defend my songs as long as I want. Because these songs are important to me. A Table may seem easy. It is true that it is a relatively simple song. Sometimes songs are the simplest that mark the most. Many people know me through this song and singing tour without A Table would be madness. I was pleased to learn that Yardin Sylvain Duclos and Nicolas the resumed. I liked the two interpretations of where their presence on the disc. As for the presence of the instrumental version, the reason is simple: people ask me if I had a score or a soundtrack with only music to take back the family, weddings, anniversaries. That's done.
I could not resist the urge to take a vacation Clemence of Anne Sylvestre , a grandmother who decided overnight to do anything. The discovery of adult and rich repertoire of singer Anne Sylvestre was a shock to me. The matriarch is a song echoing Clemence vacation since we are dealing with an elderly woman who celebrates her birthday with family.
Question of love and time tango is a song about male prostitution ... Remembrance also a time when I hesitated to play in porn movies, probably attracted by an easy life, easy money (and because youth, cynicism and materialism do a very good household in the society of the 2000s). I have asked in a magazine banned less than 18 years but the passion for creation, consuming passion, has taken over ...
Jann Halexander
http://www.myspace.com/lechanteurjannhalexander
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