In these cautious times, where artists are releasing songs one by one, or in mini-albums, multiplying the stages of promotional campaigns, the project I Am the Moon of the Tedeschi Trucks Band is more than ambitious: four films, to which correspond four full albums. If Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Gabe Dixon and company (there are twelve of them) didn’t have their feet in the muddy waters of the Mississippi so much yet, we’d think of prog music, so rich and complex is the mix of their grub: background blues, jazz, rock, soul, gospel and funk strata (I forget some). They’re kidding America, really. And their project tells less of a story (inspired by love poems from the 12e century, yes) than the evocation of a transformation, the rise and fall of a state of mind, the slow disintegration of a way of being: it begins with Crescentit continues with Ascentwe are at The Fall. Atmospheric in the treatment, symbolic in the verb, it is no less very palpable music. We call it a work.
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