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Sandra Le Couteur & Kim Edgar - Vent Fou

from CONSEQUENCES by Kim Edgar

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about

One of the unexpected silver linings of the pandemic in 2020 was getting to take part in Global Music Match through Showcase Scotland Expo. Along with many other musicians from Scotland, I was supported to connect with musicians around the world, and a few of my collaborators for the CONSEQUENCES project were part of the team I was lucky enough to join, coached by Stevie Smith, the CEO of Americana Music Association UK. The project enabled us to connect online with musicians at a time when touring was impossible, and provided us all with a support network, as well as a chance for reflection, skills development and creativity.

It’s been a great joy to work, remotely, with the superbly passionate French Canadian singer, Sandra Le Couteur for this project. We’ve had a couple of obstacles to overcome: language (Google Translate has been a true blessing, as I’ve forgotten much of my “high school” French…) and COVID-19, which I have miraculously avoided so far (it feels like only a matter of time, though), but which had Sandra laid up in bed for a week at the point at which she was aiming to record her vocals for the song.

Sandra is a true professional though, and despite illness, has put in an impassioned performance for our collaboration, VENT FOU (crazy wind), for which Sandra first wrote the lyrics, to which I added the music. I include a translation of the lyrics below for those of us who are non-French speakers which I hope will be of interest, and perhaps help to make sense of my musical approach a little, too.

I am particularly fond of “prosody” – working to make the musical elements of a song fit with and support the meaning of the lyrics. I’ve tried, in this song, to capture the imbalance and urgency of the climate crisis in the imbalanced feeling 7/8 time signature of the verses, and the hope that we will indeed manage to slow everything down, and simply breathe, in the more restful 4/4 time signature choruses.

A huge thank you to the talented creative team who have helped me to bring the song to life – to Sandra herself, for contributing her stunning vocals, and to Nicolas Basque her engineer for recording for us in Canada; to Mattie Foulds (drums, production), Kevin McGuire (bass) and Mikey Owers (brass). It’s such a pleasure to make music in this way – and incredible that through technology, and hard work, such international collaborations are possible! I do hope my pronunciation is okay…forgive me, if not 😉.

lyrics

Quand le brasier se lève
Qu’il boit le nectar, la sève
Quand l’arbre se dessèche
Il hurle au ciel sa détresse
Quand la mer vidée s’écroule
Que les déchets noircis la soûle
Le vent murmure sa peine
La colore d’un noir ébène

Souffle souffle, vent de folie
Souffle souffle, sur ma terre
Souffle souffle, sur ma mer
Souffle, sur nos vies

Je veux revoir mon ciel
Le prendre dans mes bras
M’enivrer de son miel
Son nom comme un mantra
Tu es belle ma terre
Tu es tendre ma mer
Je te veux comme amant
Comme tu étais avant

Translation:

When the inferno rises
Let him drink the nectar, the sap
When the tree withers
He howls to the sky his distress
When the empty sea collapses
That the blackened waste makes her drunk
The wind whispers its pain
The color of an ebony black

Blow blow, wind of madness
Breath breath, on my land
Breath, blow on my sea
Breath, on our lives

I want to see my sky again
Take him in my arms
Get drunk on his honey
His name like a mantra
You are beautiful my land
You are tender my sea
I want you as a lover
Like you were before

credits

from CONSEQUENCES, released February 3, 2023
Written by Sandra Le Couteur & Kim Edgar

Kim Edgar: vocals, piano
Sandra Le Couteur: vocals
Mattie Foulds: drums/percussion
Kevin McGuire: bass guitar
Mikey Owers: brass

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Fuelled by a passion for social justice, folklore, and feminism, Kim Edgar crafts keenly observed details of people’s lives into powerful, understated songs that reach out and touch listeners. ... more

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