René Aubry is a french guitarist and composer. A kind of musician who doesn't create a new world, but shows the real world from a different point of view. His music draws attention to the smallest vibrations of life, to pictures which we don't realize with our eyes - and does this in a very simple way: Mémoires du futur, his "newest" album (the latest studio album from 2006) is more minimal than the earliers and it can be understood as a musical change in his style.
There are also more sounding solutions than on the other recordings: the piano is blunt, comes from the background, or comes from the past. The drums are deeply crawling under the other instruments - they come back and disappear in the nothing again, so there's a constant uncertainty and mystery in the tracks.
There are three vocal tracks on the album: Viendras-tu avec moi? (Do you come with me?), Regarde les autres (Watch the others, or sg like that, I think it's the best song on the album), and Ha tutte le carte in regola (If everything is all right), which is an adaptation of a famous italian poem. My girlfriend translated it to Hungarian for me and now I'll show you a small part of it, translated to English.
When everything's fine
for him to be an artist,
Nothing scares him,
even not a tyrant.
He likes to be alone
even if it's expensive
He doesn't make a difference
between a year and a night
neither between a kiss and a farewell.
It's an entreaty without tears...
It's an entreaty by someone who doesn't have illusions yet...
When everything's fine
for him to be an artist...
for him to be an artist...
When I bought this cd two years ago in summer, it was so hot in the city that we got small bags with cold water in it to drink or chill ourselves.
I took that photo above on the same day when I photographed the cover for my friend. The wind moves the curtain, which plays with the evening sunlight.
Look at the page of René Aubry on Myspace:
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