{"id":4536,"date":"2019-06-18T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:04:02","slug":"veronique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e9ronique"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Je la revois sous les feux des projecteurs, assise devant un grand piano, quand je l\u2019ai vue et surtout \u00e9cout\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois, \u00e0 Grenoble. C\u2019\u00e9tait il y a tr\u00e8s longtemps. Elle aime pouvoir se tourner d\u2019un coup vers le public\u00a0: pour son premier concert chez nous on lui avait fourni un tabouret pivotant. Mais pour cette premi\u00e8re soir\u00e9e, si ancienne que j\u2019ai m\u00eame oubli\u00e9 ce qu\u2019elle a bien pu chanter, dans cette grande salle obscure, la lumi\u00e8re sur son visage et ses cheveux flamboyants, je ne me doutais pas qu\u2019on se tutoierait un jour.
\nI see her in the spotlight, sitting in front of a grand piano, when I saw her and especially listened to for the first time, in Grenoble. It was a long time ago. She likes to be able to turn suddenly to the public: for her first concert with us she had been provided with a swivel stool. But for this first evening, so old that I even forgot what she could have sung, in this big dark room, the light on her face and her flamboyant hair, I did not suspect that we would be using the familiar form a day.
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Plus r\u00e9cemment, quand je commen\u00e7ais \u00e0 prendre des cours de piano et qu\u2019elle m\u2019a d\u00e9dicac\u00e9 un jeu de partitions, je ne m\u2019en doutais toujours pas.
\nMore recently, when I started taking piano lessons and she dedicated a sheet music set to me, I still did not know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Une autre fois, \u00e0 Pourch\u00e8res, c\u2019est elle qui \u00e9tait dans la salle et moi qui chantais sur sc\u00e8ne, une de ces rares occasions o\u00f9 je chante en public.
\nAnother time, at Pourch\u00e8res, she was in the room and I was singing on stage, one of those rare occasions when I sing in public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Il fallait bien qu\u2019un jour, elle vienne dans notre salle \u00e0 manger, et elle l\u2019a fait deux fois. Apr\u00e8s presque cinq ans, nous avions une grande envie de l\u2019entendre encore et de la faire conna\u00eetre aux habitu\u00e9s des Kalyneries Paulifauniques.
\nOne day she had to come to our dining room and she did it twice. After almost five years, we had a great desire to hear her again and make her known to regulars of Kalyneries Paulifauniques.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Elles sont arriv\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019heure dite et Babeth a imm\u00e9diatement commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 installer son d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement. Quand on \u00e9coute un artiste sous un vague projecteur, on est satisfait de le voir en pleine lumi\u00e8re, on trouve \u00e7a bien. Mais quand Babeth a pass\u00e9 des heures \u00e0 mettre au point ses \u00e9clairages, multipliant les essais, voil\u00e0 autre chose\u00a0! Le jeu en valait la chandelle. Un noir brutal ou progressif, un peu de couleur, des \u00e9clairages discrets mais vari\u00e9s, rien n\u2019est laiss\u00e9 au hasard. \u00c7a n\u2019a plus rien \u00e0 voir avec le vague projecteur, pour notre plus grand plaisir.
\nThey arrived on time and Babeth immediately began to install her move. When we listen to an artist under a vague projector, we are happy to see her in full light, we find it good. But when Babeth has spent hours developing her lights, multiplying the tests, that’s another thing! The game was worth the candle. A brutal or progressive black, a little color, discreet but varied lighting, nothing is left to chance. It has nothing to do with the vague projector, for our greatest pleasure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Babeth n\u2019a pas moins d\u2019exigence pour la sono. Car il faut une sono, m\u00eame devant trente-cinq personnes. En acoustique, le piano couvrirait la voix.
\nBabeth has no less requirement for the sound system. Because sono is necessary, even in front of thirty-five people. In acoustics, the piano would cover the voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pendant les pr\u00e9paratifs, il y a ce moment o\u00f9 la chanteuse parle ou chante pour s\u2019interrompre tout de suite et demander si \u00e7a va. On va mettre un peu plus ou un peu moins de piano, les r\u00e9glages s\u2019affinent. Ne pas oublier que quand le public sera install\u00e9, le son sera diff\u00e9rent, un dernier ajustement est souvent n\u00e9cessaire. J\u2019aime tout particuli\u00e8rement quand le concert fait semblant de d\u00e9marrer. Il y a ce bout de chanson connue ou inconnue, puis \u00e7a s\u2019arr\u00eate. J\u2019ai toujours aim\u00e9 \u00eatre dans les coulisses.
\nDuring the preparations, there is this moment when the singer speaks or sings to stop immediately and ask if it’s okay. We will put a little more or a little less piano, the settings are refined. Do not forget that when the audience is installed, the sound will be different, a final adjustment is often necessary. I particularly like it when the concert pretends to start. There is this bit of known or unknown song, then it stops. I always liked being behind the scenes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nous allons et venons de notre c\u00f4t\u00e9. Le public n\u2019est pas encore l\u00e0, mais nous sommes d\u00e9j\u00e0 plusieurs, install\u00e9s ici pour le week-end ou m\u00eame plus longtemps.
\nWe come and go on our side. The public is not there yet, but we are already several, settled here for the weekend or even longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nous sommes rod\u00e9s pour l\u2019installation des chaises – tiens, pour une fois, je n\u2019ai m\u00eame pas fait semblant d\u2019aider, je n\u2019ai pas port\u00e9 l\u2019ombre d\u2019une.
\nWe are well used for the installation of chairs – for once, I did not even pretend to help, I did not wear the shade of one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

J\u2019ai houspill\u00e9 notre public, le spectacle commence \u00e0 l\u2019heure exacte.
\nI insisted a lot with our audience, the show begins at the exact time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sa voix. Son piano.
\nJe vais dire une platitude\u00a0: je trouve qu\u2019elle chante bien. Sa voix est chaude, riche, nuanc\u00e9e\u2026 Elle chante et elle raconte, on ne se lasse pas de l\u2019\u00e9couter. Elle est si naturelle qu\u2019on pourrait oublier o\u00f9 l\u2019on est, tout le travail de pr\u00e9paration en amont, pour en arriver \u00e0 un spectacle de cette qualit\u00e9\u00a0: on pourrait croire qu\u2019elle improvise\u00a0!
\nElle est g\u00e9n\u00e9reuse et passionn\u00e9e, elle nous parle de la vie, de toutes sortes de vies, que ce soit celle de ce loup raplapla, celle de ce petit gar\u00e7on aveugle ou qu\u2019elle raconte \u00ab\u00a0une histoire de nous\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0b\u00eate comme un chou\u00a0\u00bb et elle se demande \u00ab\u00a0Comment faisons-nous \/ Pour en garder le go\u00fbt ?\u00a0\u00bb
\nAu piano, elle me fascine\u00a0: j\u2019aime voir courir ses doigts sur le clavier. On peut prendre toute la mesure non seulement de son talent, mais aussi de sa formation. Elle passe avec aisance d\u2019un style \u00e0 l\u2019autre – et je suis tr\u00e8s contente du public qui n\u2019aura jamais commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 applaudir avant la derni\u00e8re note. Une belle complicit\u00e9 s\u2019est cr\u00e9\u00e9e.
\nHer voice. Her piano.<\/strong>
\nI will say a platitude: I think she sings well. Her voice is warm, rich, nuanced … She sings and she tells us, we never tire of listening to her. She is so natural that we could forget where we are, all the preparation work upstream, to arrive at a show of this quality: we could believe that she improvises!<\/strong>
\nShe is generous and passionate, she talks to us about life, about all kinds of life, that of this wolf \u00ab\u00a0raplapla\u00a0\u00bb, that of this little blind boy or that she tells \u00ab\u00a0a story of us\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0stupid like a cabbage\u00a0\u00bb, and she wonders \u00ab\u00a0How do we do \/ To keep the taste?\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>
\nAt the piano, she fascinates me: I like to see her fingers running on the keyboard. One can take all the measure not only of her talent, but also of her training. She moves easily from one style to another – and I’m very happy with the audience who will never have started applauding before the last note. A nice complicity has been created.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L\u2019angle d\u2019attaque d\u2019un sujet est toujours original, toujours impr\u00e9vu. Par exemple l\u2019histoire de Vanina vue au travers de l\u2019Histoire.
\nThe angle of attack of a subject is always original, always unforeseen. For example the story of Vanina seen through history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ce n\u2019est pas facile d\u2019\u00e9couter V\u00e9ronique Pestel. Ou plut\u00f4t il faut \u00eatre tr\u00e8s attentif, chaque mot a son importance, il ne faut rien rater\u00a0! Ses textes sont tellement denses et imag\u00e9s, hors des sentiers battus, riches de sens.
\nJe suis all\u00e9e chercher une chanson d\u2019elle que je ne crois pas conna\u00eetre, \u00ab\u00a0la parole de l\u2019autre\u00a0\u00bb, en voici deux fragments\u00a0:
\n\u00ab Car qui parle est toujours une \u00e9nigme vivante
\nM\u00eame quand on s’applique on ne comprend pas tout\u00a0\u00bb
\nIt’s not easy to listen to V\u00e9ronique Pestel. Or rather one must be very attentive, every word has its importance, you must not miss anything! Her lyrics are so dense and pictorial, off the beaten track, rich in meaning.<\/strong>
\nI went for a song of her that I do not think I know, \u00ab\u00a0the word of the other\u00a0\u00bb, here are two fragments:
\n\u00ab Because whoever speaks is always a living enigma<\/strong>
\nEven when we apply we do not understand everything\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00ab Et il ne faut pas croire qu’une parole forte
\nPeut se passer du c\u0153ur pour atteindre l’esprit\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>
\n\u00ab And do not believe that a strong word<\/strong>
\nCan do without the heart to reach the mind\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nous vivons des \u00e9motions intenses et vari\u00e9es. S\u2019il nous arrive d\u2019\u00eatre au bord des larmes, le rire est aussi de la partie.
\nWe live intense and varied emotions. If we happen to be close to tears, laughter is also in the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maintenant, je connais l\u2019origine du mot les \u00ab\u00a0alouas\u00a0\u00bb.
\nLes alouas<\/strong><\/span>
\nCroire ou ne pas croire
\nLa belle histoire
\nDire ou ne pas dire
\nLes mots du pire
\nNow, I know the origin of the word \u00ab\u00a0alouas\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong>
\nLes alouas<\/strong><\/span>
\nBelieve or not believe<\/strong>
\nThe beautiful story<\/strong>
\nSay or not say<\/strong>
\nThe words of the worst<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Voici de minuscules fragments, des pierres pr\u00e9cieuses qui, isol\u00e9es, perdent un peu de leur \u00e9clat bien s\u00fbr\u00a0:<\/p>\n

\u00c0 chacun son handicap<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00c0 chacun son handicap
\nDisait un p\u2019tit gar\u00e7on
\nQui\u00a0 n\u2019y voyait plus rien
\n\u00c0 chacun son handicap
\nSi tu crois qu\u2019t\u2019en as pas
\nMoi je connais le mien<\/p>\n

Le manque<\/strong><\/span>
\nLe temps d\u2019\u00e9crire
\nme manque
\nme manque<\/p>\n

Here are tiny fragments, precious stones which, isolated, lose a little of their brilliance of course:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each one has his own handicap<\/strong><\/span>
\nEach one has his own handicap<\/strong>
\nA little boy said<\/strong>
\nHe could not see anything<\/strong>
\nEach one has his own handicap<\/strong>
\nIf you think you do not have one<\/strong>
\nI know mine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lack<\/strong><\/span>
\nI miss time to write<\/strong>
\nI miss<\/strong>
\nI miss<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Apr\u00e8s le concert, apr\u00e8s le buffet pendant lequel pour ma part j\u2019ai pu discuter avec les uns et les autres, chacun a fini par retrouver son lit.
\nAfter the concert, after the buffet during which I could discuss with each other, everyone has finally found his bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le lendemain, \u00ab\u00a0Bonjour, bien dormi\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb, autour du caf\u00e9 on reprend pied dans une nouvelle journ\u00e9e. La magie n\u2019a pas fini d\u2019op\u00e9rer. Une autre magie, c\u2019est de c\u00f4toyer cette grande dame de la chanson que nous accueillons le mieux possible mais tr\u00e8s simplement.
\nUne fois tout le mat\u00e9riel remis en place dans la voiture, les voil\u00e0 reparties, un peu press\u00e9es, pour aller \u00e9couter Thibaud Defever et Monique Brun.
\nThe next day, \u00ab\u00a0Hello, sleep well?\u00a0\u00bb, drinking coffee we get back into a new day. The magic has not finished operating. Another magic is to be in contact with this great lady of the song whom we welcome the best possible but very simply.<\/strong>
\nOnce all the material put back in place in the car, they left again, a little in a hurry, to go listen to Thibaud Defever and Monique Brun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiens, nous ne leur avons m\u00eame pas fait faire le tour du parc finalement, c\u2019est vraiment dommage, les mois de mai et juin sont les plus beaux\u00a0!
\nWell, we did not even go around the park finally, it’s a shame, the months of May and June are the most beautiful!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Et les photos\u00a0? Encore un petit \u00e9tat des lieux, le 17 juin<\/em><\/span>
\nAnd the photos? Another little overview, June 17th<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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