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Alain Bashung Military Fantasy
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Author: Pierre Lemarchand
It was a joyless soldier who set about developing his tenth studio album in 1996. Alain Bashung had to overcome a painful episode that infused and enriched the lyrics he crafted with Jean Fauque, but both were always careful to cover their tracks. Musically, too, Bashung wanted to remain elusive: he multiplied the experimental workshops entrusted to musicians encouraged to surprise him. Longtime traveling companions or newcomers to his world, each gave the best of themselves to accompany this respected voice of French rock.
The purpose of this book is to reveal this creative process, that of an album that combines melodic simplicity and harmonic complexity, a long maturation process and room for spontaneity, an album that mixes organic instruments and machine sounds, secret design and collective creation. A record of maturity, a record of culmination, Fantaisie militaire is above all a beautiful escape.
ISBN: 9782919296286