Yggdrasill

Au bord du précipice, me submergent les vices...

Je n'ai point consommé la vertu imposée.

L'avide tourbillon du désespoir m'enserre, me torture,

fait éclore cette rose de faussaire, me lacère, j'abjure!

Effleure, dévore, sans ardeur

et malmène ce corps

oh oui de tout cœur...

Lacère, digère ma terreur

et déteste mes pleurs

oh oui viens encore!

Je sens alors ce corps froid m'investir

Pétrifier mon corps, ô triste sire

D'une fièvre pernicieuse, chaleur syncopale,

S'éloigne l'amoureuse dans un sinistre râle

Dès lors, l'incube tente de me faire vaciller...

mais je ne peux pas, je ne veux point tomber!

Tomber dans ses griffes, sombrer dans la démence.

Succomber à l'absence, éprouver cette envie...

Effleure, dévore, sans ardeur

et malmène ce corps

oh oui de tout cœur...

Lacère, digère ma terreur

et déteste mes pleurs

oh oui viens encore!

(Je t'entends crier, hurler, supplier

mais rien n'y fait...)

Ton corps suppure le mal

Délivre la douleur ancestrale

La fascination d'un être... bestial

Quelle douce envolée

L'acharnement cruel

Le plaisir sensuel

d'un corps maculé

(Je t'entends crier, hurler, supplier

mais rien n'y fait...)

Je sens alors ce corps froid m'investir

Pétrifier mon corps, ô triste sire

D'une fièvre pernicieuse, chaleur syncopale,

S'éloigne l'amoureuse dans un sinistre râle...

Voici un lien vers ma chaîne Youtube où j'ai posté une quinzaine de vidéos du concert de Rammstein à Nantes le 16 novembre 2009, ainsi qu'une vidéo de Combichrist (en première partie):

http://www.youtube.com/user/AsterSvart

Les vidéos sont de relativement bonne qualité du point de vue du son, contrairement aux autres vidéos que j'ai pu voir sur Youtube (c'est de grosse et belle bouillie XD). En ce qui concerne l'image, c'est majoritairement flou, mais en même temps, j'étais dans les gradins et il ne faut pas oublier que cela reste de la qualité portable ^^

En tout cas, bon visionnage et n'hésitez pas à laisser commentaires et impressions, en particulier si vous y étiez!

Photo: Rammstein / 16-11-09

(Prière de ne pas utiliser mes photos sans autorisation. Merci)

Robert Smith is known as the singer/guitarist and songwriter of the rock band The Cure. In fact, he is a multi-instrumentalist because he can play the guitar, the keyboard, the double bass, the bass guitar, the violin, the flute and the trumpet.

Robert James Smith was born on the 21th of April 1959 in Blackpool (North West of England). He is the third of four children. He grows up in a Catholic family and attends schools like St. Francis Primary and Junior Schools where he meets Lol Tolhurst (the second guitarist of The Cure) at the age of 5, Notre Dame Middle School and St. Wilfrid's Comprehensive School in Crawley. He is an accomplished student and begin playing the guitar at the age of 11. As a consequence, music become his primary focus.

He meets Mary Poole at the age of 14. She becomes his wife in 1988, just before Disintegration release. He dedicates several songs to her, like “M” in the album Seventeen Seconds or “Love song” in Disintegration.

He takes part in a group called The Obelisks but decides to create the band Malice in 1976, which becomes Easy Cure in 1977. Finally, the name is simplified into The Cure in 1978.

He starts singing only because The Cure can't find a suitable singer. He did not intend to become the leader of the group.

He is influenced by The Beatles, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Jimi Hendrix, The Stranglers, The Ink Spots, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart and David Bowie.

In 1979 and from 1982 to 1984, he joins the band Siouxsie and the Banshees and replaces the guitarist John McKay. He records with them Nocturne (a live album), Hyaena and three singles. In 1983, he associates Steve Severin, the bassist of Siouxsie and the Banshees, and creates The Glove. They record the album Blue Sunshine and two singles.

Robert Smith owns an extensive range of guitars with a variety of different sounds. He plays sometimes his own signature model guitar called the Ultracure.

At the beginning, he used a soft vocal style but the music becomes sometimes closer to the post-punk style like on “I just need myself” in the album Three Imaginary Boys (released in 1979). Smith's voice is quite particular just as his way of singing. His style is quite resonant, frenetic, obsessive and atmospheric but still very original and strange. It is obvious in his way of singing that he is totally filled with his texts and sounds.

Smith explored a range of styles and themes over the years. Generally, he explores poetic moods and creates his own universe which often appears gloomy and doom-laden. But in several songs like “In between Days” or “Friday I'm in love”, we can see a contrast between a bouncy pop-rock beat and sad or heartbroken texts.

Smith popularized the Goth style of dress with his red lipstick which is now his trademark, but also with his unkempt hairstyle and his dark clothes. But Robert Smith doesn't really accept the image associated with the Cure and said "It's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name The Cure".

I conclude with another quotation: In 2000, Smith says during an interview that "... there is one particular kind of music, an atmospheric type of music, that I enjoy making with the Cure. I enjoy it a lot more than any other kind of sound".

Robert Smith is still considered as a pioneer in the new wave, Gothic rock and alternative genres.

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