We have heard Michel Faubert singing even medieval laments in the past. The fiery chapel on the contrary displays what we are condemned to call modernity, for lack of anything better. Because of the provenance of the texts, whose inspiration is sometimes as recent as a work by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu dating from 1974, and even more so because of the music.
The foundations of this record are rock. However, we can only describe it as a rock record if we accept that this aesthetic encompasses folk ideas, improvised music, tonic guitars and even electronic pulsations (The strange story of Madame Brault, Black Dog / Moravagine). Bernard Falaise is not just a fine guitarist, here he plays the role of director.
His sound films brilliantly enrich the words of Michel Faubert who sings a little (in the mode of lament, essentially), but above all narrates, with his deep voice which has something almost metallic and that calm tone that we know from him. . We can easily imagine the time that both of them spent refining these pieces, looking for the perfect breaths so that the poetry passes between word and music, as well as the right shades of darkness so that these words where it is often discussed of death are wrapped in the most appropriate shroud.
This Burning Chapel demands our full attention – more like an audiobook than a simple song – but our commitment is rewarded. Michel Faubert and Bernard Falaise take the spirit here on a funeral march that takes you on a journey through time and awakens ghosts.
Extract of The end of the world by an eyewitness
Contemporary folk
The fiery chapel
Michel Faubert and Bernard Falaise
The tribe