In Your Room

Musica do álbum «Songs For Faith and Devotion» dos Depeche Mode de 1993. Versão do Sylvain Chaveau.

"In your room
Where time stands still
Or moves at your will
Will you let the morning come soon
Or will you leave me lying here
In your favourite darkness
Your favourite half-light
Your favourite consciousness
Your favourite slave

In your room
Where souls disappear
Only you exist here
Will you lead me to your armchair
Or leave me lying here
Your favourite innocence
Your favourite prize
Your favourite smile
Your favourite slave

I'm hanging on your words
living on your breath
feeling with your skin
Will I always be here

In your room
Your burning eyes
Cause flames to arise
Will you let the fire die down soon
Or will I always be here
Your favourite passion
Your favourite game
Your favourite mirror
Your favourite slave

I'm hanging on your words
living on your breath
feeling with your skin
Will I always be here"

This Immortal Coil

Um projecto de tributo aos Coil.
This Immortal Coil são:
Yaël Naim, Bonnie Prince Billy, Yann Tiersen, Matt Elliott, DAAU, Chapelier Fou, Sylvain Chauveau, Christine Ott, Oktopus, Nightwood, David Donatien e Nicolas Jorio.

"On November the thirteenth 2004, Jhonn Balance passed away, He was, along with Peter Christopherson, the founding member of the band Coil. His brutal death marked the end of over twenty years of activism and musical genius. I have then decided to work on a project that would pay tribute to them.

I didn't want another compilation that would pile up pieces, without any link. My wish was to transpose this unique musical mood to another one, more classical and more accessible to everyone. The whole idea was to pay tribute to the music for what was beyond it, just the way Coil underlined it: "Coil is more than music".

I got my inspiration from the project This Mortal Coil, started in the eighties by the English label 4AD. Its label manager had then grouped some of its own artists together in order to play some standards of rock and pop music. Most of those who participated in this work hardly knew Coil. My purpose wasn't to go towards those artists who had a conscious connection with the music of the group, let alone musicians who claimed to be the heirs to this seminal work. My aim was to play with the discovery and take Coil's pieces towards new interpretations, rid of all influences.
The respect and the admiration that I have for Coil's work led me to surround myself with talented artists also admired for their brilliant writing. I needed strong personalities who would show a maybe unconscious will to put all their soul, with great humility and maturity, in their participation. The interpretation of Bonnie Prince Billy being certainly the most poignant testimony.

Each artist that was hired for this project was utterly fascinated by the depth of the repertory. They have all been motivated and glad to bring their know how and share it with the others.
Members of DAAU from Anvers, the virtuoso Christine Ott, Yann Tiersen and Matt Elliott have lived productive, strong and passionate meetings, which made Yann Tiersen offer Matt Elliott to participate to his new album Dust Lane. To finish and in order to strenghten this team spirit, the whole album was mixed by Oktopus (Dälek) who knew better than anyone how to put each member of the project's contribution forward.
Peter Christopherson, who since has gone back to working on his first two groups Throbbing Gristle and P.TV, has written about the titles of This Immortal Coil: "I LOVE THEM. It is the first time somebody with musical sensibility and talent has put so much time and effort into covering Coil songs. It totally passes my "hairs on the back of your neck standing up" test for the whole running time of the album. I was awe-struck."

After four years spent managing this project, I could not ask for more."

Stéphane Grégoire

«The Dark Age Of Love» 2009




Coil Biografia

Coil Discografia

Fonte: This Immortal Coil - Myspace, Blog No a Todo, Allmusic

"Never Let Me Down Again" por Sylvain Chauveau

Versão da musica dos Depeche Mode, "Never Let Me Down Again", por Sylvain Chauveau. Do álbum, «Down to the bone» [An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode](DSA, 2005, reeditado Nature Bliss, 2007)

Sylvain Chauveau

Sylvain Chauveau nasceu em Bayonne, França, em 1971. Vive actualmente em Bruxelas.

Desde 1998 compõe musica com base no piano. Fez algumas bandas sonoras para filmes, como para o filme "Nuage" (que passou no festival de Locarno, 2007) de Sébastien Betbeder e "Feathers in my head" (2004) de Thomas de Thier. Também fez composições para coreógrafos como Pierre Rigal /Aurélien Bory e Serge Ricci. Assim como performances para escritores como Mark Z. Danielewski, Félicia Atkinson e Joris Lacoste.

Sylvain Chauveau entra em vários outros projectos. Na banda Arca com Joan Cambon, na banda 0 (diz-se zero) com Stéphane Garin, Joël Merah e Maitane Sebastian e na banda On com Steven Hess. Recentemente juntamente com Yaël Naim, Bonnie Prince Billy, Yann Tiersen, Matt Elliott, DAAU, Chapelier Fou Christine Ott, Oktopus, Nightwood, David Donatien e Nicolas Jorio no projecto This Immortal Coil, um tributo aos Coil.

Álbuns

«Le Livre noir du capitalisme» (Noise Museum, 2000, reeditado como «The Black Book of Capitalism», Type, 2008)
«Nocturne impalpable» (DSA, 2001)
«Un Autre Décembre» (130701/FatCat, 2003)
«Des Plumes dans la tête» (DSA, 2004), banda sonora original
«Down to the bone» [An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode](DSA, 2005, reeditado Nature Bliss, 2007)
«S.» (Type, 2007)
«Nuage» (Type, 2007), original soundtrack
«Touching Down Lightly» (Creative Sources, 2009)

Outros projectos:

This Immortal Coil: «The Dark Age Of Love» (2009)
Felicia Atkinson and Sylvain Chauveau «Roman Anglais» (2008)



Myspace

Fonte: Site Oficial, Blog Sound Wacthing, Heavenly Houseboat Blues, Blog Amor Louco