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Un nuage d'édredon
M'enveloppe
Atténuant les sons

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“Ecrite” et composée par les 4 membres de Pink Floyd en 1971, “One Of These Days”, la première piste de l'album Meddle rejoint “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” parmi les morceaux quasiment instrumentaux du groupe ne comportant qu'une phrase de paroles.

“One Of These Days” est un morceau taquin que le groupe a réalisé pour se moquer de la vision qu'avait la rpesse musicale du groupe à l'époque : Pink Floyd était un groupe de rock “spatial, futuriste, interdimensionnel” et autres qualificatifs farfelus, tous associés à de la science-fiction, parce qu'ils utilisaient un peu plus de projecteurs que les autres groupes à leurs concerts.

C'est pourquoi ce morceau s'inspire lourdement du thème principal de la série anglaise archi-culte Doctor Who, empruntant une bonne partie de son orchestration, à commencer par la ligne de basse hyper-régulière.

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Cette phrase est prononcée par Nick Mason, le batteur de Pink Floyd. Mason a extrêmement peu fourni de performances vocales dans la carrière du groupe, même dans les choeurs.

Pour réaliser cette voix caverneuse, il a enregistré cette phrase en parlant très rapidement avec une voix très aiguë, puis la bande d'enregistrement a été passée au ralenti.

Ce message dédaigneux est adressé à Sir Jimmy Young, un DJ des stations BBC Radio 1 et BBC Radio 2 avec lequel ils avaient une relation de désamour entretenu. Ironiquement, la chanson “Fearless” arrivant deux pistes plus tard sur l'album Meddle est, elle, un hommage au DJ de BBC Radio 1 John Peel, qui fut, lui, un des plus indéfectibles soutiens du groupe.

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For a while before Waters’s heavily modified voice starts reciting a psalm, the echoing of the word “stone”, sung by David Gilmour, resurfaces two songs after its initial appearance, on “Dogs”.

This is strengthening the connection between the two songs, as this song will mention the dogs in its last verse, and the scream Roger Waters gives in that last verse is also heard in the beginning of “Dogs”.

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The word “stone” keeps echoing for a few minutes during the instrumental bridge of the song until it sounds like a dog’s howl. Eventually, actual barking and howling are also heard alongside the instruments.

This echoing word would resurface two tracks later on the album, during the middle section of “Sheep.”

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“The Gold It’s In The…” is the fourth track from Pink Floyd’s 1972 album Obscured By Clouds, which acts the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder’s film La Vallée.

In the film, it can be heard while Viviane follows Olivier into his tent on the first night they spend together.

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“Obscured By Clouds” is the opener and title-track from Pink Floyd’s 1972 album, which is the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder’s film La Vallée.

In the film, it serves as the opening and closing credits track.

Most of the film depicts the trip of six people towards a mysterious valley (hence the title) located on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Early in the film, Gaëtan (portrayed by Jean-Pierre Kalfon, who is the man appearing on the album’s cover art) shows its location on a map and points out that it is still uncharted. As the main protagonist, Viviane (portrayed by Bulle Ogier), notices, it was uncommon as of 1972 because planes were used to chart every land in the world. However, the valley remains unaccounted for because it appears to be permanently covered up by a thick layer of clouds.

These clouds are the reason why the valley is marked on the maps as “obscured by clouds”.

This was the first Pink Floyd song to feature the drone of the VCS 3 synth, the sound of which would become a primary feature on upcoming albums The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.

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Terrible façon de souligner la sombre ironie de la situation.

Abd Al Malik tourne en ridicule le questionnement ontologique matérialisé par la célèbre citation shakespearienne en la soumettant au besoin le plus primitif de tous : vivre.

Malik Oussekine était un étudiant, quelqu'un dont la vocation première était de forger son esprit. Ce processus a été complètement retranché au moment où ce qui devint le plus important était de rester en vie.

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Abd Al Malik évoque l'élan de solidarité que le monde occidental vivait au milieu des années 1980, à travers le morceau de 1985, “We Are The World” (on est le monde).

Ce genre de messages d'unité, à l'instar des badges “Touche pas à mon pote” évoqués plus tôt, montrent que la drame de Malik Oussekine est survenu dans un climat qui ne le laissait pas supposer.

Cette “bonhommie solidaire”, cet essor de la gentillesse, a en fait généré chez beaucoup de monde une naïveté qui fut fracturée par cet événement tragique.

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Abd Al Malik joue de la notion de “cousin germain” pour faire allusion à un événement important de l'histoire allemande, la Nuit de Cristal.

Survenue du 9 au 10 novembre 1938, la Nuit de Cristal est le pogrom antisémite orchestré par le IIIème Reich d'Adolf Hitler, qui résulta en la destruction de milliers de synagogues et de vitrines commerçantes (d'où la nuit tira son surnom) appartenant à des Juifs.

Elle est considérée comme le point culminant de la politique antisémite instiguée dès 1933 par Hitler, visant à pousser les Juifs à quitter l'Allemagne : ce basculement vers la violence directe est de facto le point de départ de la Shoah.


Abd Al Malik ne se hasarde pas à une comparaison directe de la mort de Malik Oussekine à la Nuit de Cristal, puisqu'il mentionne un faible écho ainsi que de subtiles formes.

Il décrit cet incident comme la manifestation subtile d'une volonté de faire taire les voix dissidentes, comme une étincelle de fascisme.

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