
¿Cómo mirar a siete quebecúas —incluido aquel matrimonio— intercambiando entre track y track la batería y la guitarra y el bajo y el teclado? No sólo eso: también el piano y el arpa y el violín y la harmónica y el chelo y el acordeón y el xilófono y la viola. ¿Mirarlos? Con una dulce incredulidad, seguramente.
¿De qué manera interpretar al Indie Rock multi-instrumental, con voces desgarradoras; Vocingleras, plagado de abruptas discordias y letras lastimeras que sólo fortalecen el propósito de arruinar cualquier intento de apoltronarse parsimonioso a escuchar un disco? Según ellos, con pericia desparpajada. Para muestra, un botón:
“If the children don’t grow up,our bodies get bigger
but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little god’s
causin rain stormsTurnin’ every good thing to rust”
De: Wake up
“Hey, my eyes are shooting sparks,
la nuit, mes yeux t’eclairent.
Ne dis pas a ton pere
qu’il porte des oeillieres“
De : Une annee sans lumiere
De: Wake up
“Hey, my eyes are shooting sparks,
la nuit, mes yeux t’eclairent.
Ne dis pas a ton pere
qu’il porte des oeillieres“
De : Une annee sans lumiere
Por último: ¿Cómo nombrar un disco cuya gestación alojó la muerte de parientes —quebecúas, probablemente— de algunos miembros de la banda? Lejos del soslayo, las letras y el color de la música lo auguraban: Funeral.
¿La banda? The Arcade Fire (Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara.).
¿Su disco? Funeral. Merge records.
Fragmentos de Wikipedia:
Arcade Fire formed around the husband and wife duo of Butler and Chassagne. Joining together as recently as mid-2003, the current lineup solidified in late 2003/early 2004, when their first full-length album Funeral was recorded. Arcade Fire is known for its enthralling live performances, as well as its use of a large number of musical instruments. The promise showed by the band in its live shows allowed it to land a record contract with Chapel Hill-based independent record label Merge Records.
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Their first full-length album, Funeral, debuted in September 2004 in the USA and in February 2005 in the UK, and was very highly acclaimed by critics. The title of the debut album was chosen because of the deaths of several relatives of band members during recording. These events created a somber atmosphere which influenced songs such as “Une année sans lumière” (”A Year without Light”), “In the Backseat”, and “Haiti”, Chassagne’s elegy to her lost homeland.
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