2023-04-20 09:02:00
It is a little after 5 p.m. on Wednesday April 19 when the public is invited to visit the Jacques-Coeur palace in Bourges. The guides, about fifteen members, women and men, of a choir, sing “you have twenty minutes/to visit our house”. The route, a spiral staircase, various rooms of the vast residence built from 1443 to 1451 for the wealthy merchant, shipowner and banker. Our hosts, here bassist Sylvain Daniel, there Etienne Jaumet, who draws “spatial” sounds from his modular synthesizer, bristling with cables and control buttons, elsewhere drummer David Aknin, whose solo is played with mallets…
As far as the banquet hall, where saxophonist, singer and pianist Thomas de Pourquery welcomes us, on a stage placed in front of the huge fireplace, soon joined by the musicians (Jaumet is also on the saxophone) and by Akemi Fujimori on the keyboards. For three consecutive days – this Wednesday was the first – the organizers of the Printemps de Bourges, whose edition takes place from April 18 to 23, gave carte blanche to Pourquery and his comrades.
In the program, “some love songs”, novelties, says Thomas de Pourquery. Treated in pop ballads, in reggae swaying, in melodic and rhythmic loops reminiscent of those of the cosmic-rock-hovering group Gong of the early 1970s, while keeping a part of jazz, soloist improvisations, whether for parts of keyboards, saxophone or in the vocal evolutions of Pourquery. The “ghosts” of Jacques Coeur and his sweetheart, Macée de Léodepart, come for a ride. It’s whimsical, strange, moving, full of musical discoveries and discreet sophistications.
Lou Reed et Neil Young
It was in another place of heritage in the city, the Saint-Pierre church, that the first stage of the “Trilogy 72” was then presented. Three famous albums marketed in 1972, for a “proofreading, not copying and pasting”told us a few days ago, Jean-Michel Dupas, artistic director and co-programmer of the festival. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Marsby David Bowie (1947-2016), entrusted to Léonie Pernet this first evening, in a rather electro direction, then, Thursday 20, Transformerby Lou Reed (1942-2013), for a stripped down approach demanded of Silly Boy Blue, and, on Friday the 21st, Harvestby Neil Young, which the group La Maison Tellier had already created while retaining the folk rock aspect.
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