I remembered my first listen of The Apartments, cétait in 1985 ... already ... I remembered those first shelled sounds in the speaker system of this local radio Brest where I was doing a show .... This song cétait Mr Somewhere ... and forever the music of The Apartments will remain linked in my mind to lintime, personnel, what one does not share in what one keeps to oneself ... We are much like that in our relationship with music Peter Milton Walsh ....
Fortunately for others, fortunately for us, there are generous exceptions like Emmanuel Tellier, madly in love with the music of laustralien. This same Emmanuel Tellier that allowed this tour and recorded the session under the excellent show "Pop Label" presented by Vincent Théval and broadcast every Monday at 22:30 on France Musique.
I remember tears in my eyes during this concert, this true emotion shared between Peter Milton Walsh and his audience ...
When talking about Peter Milton Walsh, the words that come up are "beautiful loser", "cursed artist". We often speak of him in the past, recalling the timeless beauty of his work out there so long that some of you even nétaient perhaps not born in their outings. With this tour and this session "Seven songs" Peter Milton Walsh talks about the present and tells us that it is still there and actif.Il proves it by reinterpreting his former titles, sometimes rare. It makes for a new work. Particularly by Lapport crucial dAmanda Brown (Ex Go Betweens) violin or Fabien Tellier (49 Swimming Pools) on piano. One is surprised by side at a time and stripped lush orchestrations.
This session begins with specious "Things youll keep", derived from "A Life Full Of Farewells" with the voice of Peter Milton Walsh, always full of will and gentleness that reminds us of the power of its dinterprète qualities.
"Thank you for making me beg" is one of those titles that explain this timeless nature of the music of The Apartments ... going so look for some dune silky Pop side of the 60s, Burt Bacharach in mind that the direction of the Soul. ..this song you draw tears fail.
I can not say enough love that I have for "World of liars", resulting from the album "Apart" here in a more stripped down version where Peter Milton Walsh sings as if that might be the last time that he sang with the voices plays the break, the break to better rebound even more beautiful ...
With "On every corner" and trumpet Gaël Riteau, this is The Apartments, the grouP that comes our way. We are amazed by the consistency and control ALL OPERATING especially when one remembers that the newly formed group for the tour have repeated na quun or two days before their inaugural concert at Allones. This is the interpretation of a collective, of a group that saffirme ...
Then there is Mr .... Somewhere in this interpretation that made me get tears in my eyes at the famous concert in Nantes .... I can tell you that I nétais not alone, far from it ... This violin dAmanda Brown as a melee reminiscent of John Cale and Nico of Velvet time. Hear the man sing the title 28 years after its creation, to turn to the young man that he was then and talk to him ahead ...
"Everyday Will Be New" we took with these piano notes that sécoulent as creepage when "All You Wanted" closing the session as in a form dau goodbye.
"Seven songs" playing with our frustrations ... Frustrations because we would have liked to see the longer that record Peter Milton Walsh because we would have liked to hear other versions other titles lon ... We all love a lot of pieces favorite of the group as that pearl, "She sings to forget you", more intimate version of "Goodbye Train".
We would have liked to hear unreleased tracks like this sublime song "21" on imaginary and impossible wandering in New York with her missing son. These titles make us want to go back to the albums ... They make us want to see a sequel to this exemplary discography. We know that he will return, we are sure. It can not be otherwise ... We refuse intolerable absence of music by Peter Milton Walsh and his Apartments.
I know that one day I will return to that time lost in my teens listening to the new songs that will win this magnificent Peter Milton Walsh
