Murat, a voice in the middle of genres

Two voices at once. Tina Turner obviously had a unique tone that no longer exists. Learning of Jean-Louis Murat’s death the next day is equally shocking and shocking. here is a voice that we will not hear again, and which resonated differently in the atmosphere of French song, adopted a rather unique outline. who navigated between tessitura despite recognizable vocal color in lettuce.

Signature:

So, Murat’s voice was a signature, even outside of his music, compositions, arrangements. What exactly was he? A path, first, between genres. His voice allowed him to break out of the agreed-upon frameworks of song, pop and rock. Giving voice, also accepting the cracks of a regional accent (Auvergne, Aligo), JLM created his own territory, his own voice, his own singing kingdom.

He also straddled different genres, using his song not so much as a manly argument but as a weapon to deactivate preconceptions; , oscillating between forms of language, words, often vibrating phrases. And then, too, this way of being in the world with others, emphasizing other musicians, like on the Mustango album, where he quotes PJ Harvey in the song: Polly John and the band Calexico on the track of the same name.

Sing the fragility

After all, Murat’s strength will be to live between the poles, to create a terrain where he can sing all his fragility, with accents of the masculine and the feminine. In it, he symbolized a generation of musicians – English, American, New Zealander, French – who emerged in the 1980s, who made music that could be said to contain the roots of rock, but moved away from it to take a closer stance. fragile than strong. Basically, despite his mythical temperament, Murat appeared as in himself, in his most fragile pieces, which were also closest to nature. Someone who wrote a song called Young Rain On The Thistle and another titled Red is my sleep one can only regret.

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