Careful and sensitive, Beyries’ first album in French reveals an author and almost a new artist.
It is not so much the musical universe of Beyries which surprises on Fire in the lilacs. She is far from being the only one to make atmospheric folk where the guitars are delicate and the orchestrations generous despite their economy. No, what catches the ear is first of all the poetry, this fleeting and irresistible thing which is born here from the perfect fusion of words and their interpretation.
Beyries, who has mainly sung in English until now – which allowed her to hide, she says – offers for the first time an album entirely in French. It is made up of 10 songs, the texts of which are mostly by Maxime Le Flaguais. The actor is an old friend of the singer and, obviously, the good translator for her moods. Starting from fragments of his own poems, he, in close collaboration with his friend, wrote texts of rare beauty.
The second has a few fabulous lines about desire and vulnerability, then these few words: “Time wants to pass/I lay down the hourglass”.
Time counts these: “I have stopped misunderstanding/About the flavor of a kiss/About an error that a tender word/Could erase”. And further: “I have decided to surrender/I can no longer resist/I am only defending myself/Against you who want to love me”.
We find these strong images everywhere on the album, these poetic nuggets almost giving the impression of hearing about love for the first time in a song. Which is no small feat… Let’s dare to say that we have the feeling of witnessing the emergence of a lyricist of rare talent.
A beautiful pen is good, but that’s not enough for a song. It needs melodies, timbres, rhythms to serve as a backdrop. He also needs a voice. Beyries displays extraordinary fragility and elegance throughout the record. Strength, too. Its light radiates, as if filtered by a cloud on this beautiful record produced by Joseph Marchand, which ends strongly with a piece with particularly astonishing arrangements (The promisewith François Lafontaine on piano and synths) and Lighthousea song where death prowls, the finale of which is lifted by a delicate chorus.
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Fire in the lilacs
Beyries
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