A very old friend of mine wrote this French text many years ago (he's Italian, the choice of French was for the particular sound of it ), he was playing it on few chords on the guitar and I like it very much as it expresses very well the way a man who sailed all the oceans (as he did, most of the times alone) sees things in life and decides of what it's really meaningful, the contact with nature and a peaceful consciousness.
The vocals are from his woman's son, who's a nice guy that you never know where he is and how long he's gonna remain there....he's half French, that helped...
I remade the music and played it on our beloved Scope system. I used Ken's Seventythree rhodes emulation patch, a pad built with some early betas of the FleXor3 FR Saw oscillators and the drums are samples I made of a very vintage drum box, the Korg Minipops, loaded "treated"and sequenced in modular. Another modular patch takes care of the solo and some Vocodizer can be heard too.
I always thought this text was very "Zen", I tried to get that feeling of something extremely simple and essential, a very peaceful and warm sensation of resonating memories.
We called this extemporary trio "Les Enfants Barbus"
I'll post a link, not the file itself:
http://www.alfonsodamora.it/L_E_B/les_jours.mp3
I hope you enjoy it.
