How is it, then, that beyond genres and categories, we sometimes detect the famous "point untranslatable"? How is it that this music is so much timeless, beautiful, magical, so obvious, never complacent, never caressing the listener in the grain, but instead offering an orgy of sounds and melodies that seem to have been written in heaven ("Stairway to Heaven", obviously, that was easy ...). I will not fall into mysticism, it is not my goal. But let's say that beyond my personal impressions, this music is indescribable, indescribable, ineffable. In any case, a pure delight for our taste buds hearing if one is not too m ---- in the ears. And come back today (2) fills me with ... "happiness" (ah, dare I even let go of this supremely bourgeois word?). Why must necessarily use that term increasingly hollow and meaningless? Happiness, if it exists, it never lasts. And if it lasts, it is the time of a wafer, such as this, for example. In fact, it's better than that: that music connects us to life in the most "noble" sense. Happy to live the moment, the time to listening. And vibrate with it, away from sclerosing hypnosis!
Already with "Black Dog" (the first theme), we know it's going to be heavy. Far from being an entertainment, there is in this Led Zeppelin IV confusing contrasts ("The Battle of Evermore" constituting a melodic and rhythmic break with the previous two themes, and my view is frankly successful) . There is also an ironic and outrageous disproportion between the incantatory power of Robert Plant (vocals and harmonica) with the great Jimmy Page (guitar), and land highlight the beautiful and the musical mystery that this country is (the magnificent "Going to California") or tinted blues ("When The Levee Breaks"). The guitar riffs and the swaying and cross-rhythms, bring matters to a music which mocks the bourgeois spirit of our contemporary societies installed in almost indecent comfort and wants to categorize everything. But be wary of one who breaks the "bourgeois." The citizens themselves also listen to this music. When one is looking for a job and you feel increasingly at the margins of society today, this music, obviously, is a very foolish and restores some confidence which will never say his name. Or to put it another way, it regenerates. She said especially hope and a new way of walking ... When you listen to this centerpiece for example what "Misty Mountain Hop", with its powerful rhythms that groove both silky and musk (the "grass root"), is a condensed sweat, evidence of life itself, with this desire to transcend all the vicissitudes of life! You can do it, bro '! Podemos! Thus, the exceptional discs are crossed with sublime and overwhelming evidence: they seem to rise at a key moment equivocation permanently ... Led Zeppelin is to rock what Miles for me is jazz and what is Beethoven classic essential and indispensable! (3) As for my title: bah, it's simple, it has nothing to do (although ...) but I dab, take it as an invitation to reading a book remover : The Metamorphosis of Bourgeois (Jacques Ellul) ... Almost sorry to that useless comment ...
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(1) Gabriel Fauré quoted in Music and the Ineffable Vladimir Jankélévitch (edition Seuil, 1983).
(2) This review was written in listening again this cake Led Zeppelin !!!
(3) Moreover, it is certainly no coincidence that the Ertegun brothers recorded Led Zeppelin since their debut in 1968 (Ahmet and Nesuhi were the producers of the Atlantic label). The brothers were very curious music lovers, and went to close a fertile decade (the 60s) when recording become essential patties in the world jazz and rhythm and blues (pianist and singer Ray Charles, the must saxophonist John Coltrane, trumpeter and flugelhorn player Art Farmer, alto saxophonist most free and most crazy of all - the great Ornette Coleman - and so on .....).
(4) Do not have an older version Deluxe recently exit, do not see where my appreciation of single compact reissued by Atlantic (1994 edition).
