Le bon moment

Quand Selah a quelque chose à annoncer, elle choisit le bon moment.

Ce samedi soir, le Théâtre municipal de Tourcoing était déjà bien chaud quand c'était au tour de Selah de se retrouver devant le public du nord de la France.

 

La franco-brésilienne Dom la Nena et la stylée british Lianne La Havas avaient chacune à leur tour préparé le terrain, seules sur scène, avec pour seuls compagnons leurs multiples instruments.

C'est à la fin du premier tiers-temps qu'on me donne une info qui n'en est pas encore une. Pour la souriante vendeuse de merchandising qui était également en backstage, il n'y a aucun doute : pas de corrélation entre la taille du ventre de Selah -que cette fille prétend être un peu gonflé- et le nombre de tartines mangées dans la journée. Elle serait enceinte.

Je me retrouve alors très dubitatif. Les craintes de Selah autour d'une maternité, accompagné d'un inexorable traitement antidépresseur sont quand même bien récentes.

Je retourne m'asseoir, en donne un mot à ma fan de voisine, puis assiste tranquillement au concert de Lianne La Havas, laissant de côté la rumeur.

Fin du deuxième tiers-temps, le bar m’appelle à nouveau, et l'amie flamande appelée une heure auparavant pointait son nez et profitait de tickets non vendus.

Deux Selah fans de plus au théâtre, en plus de la demi-douzaine situé au premier rang où je me trouve.
Je rate la mise en place de la scène par le staff mais ma bière triple me laisse le temps de revenir parmi les miens pour le début du show.

Joachim + Sanne

Un piano-voix pour commencer, avec I loves you Porgy, devenu un standard pour le duo de jazz d’un soir. Et un vrai piano à queue pour Mr. Joachim Saerens, pianiste de jazz.
Peu importe le choix des chansons, le plaisir de revoir ces deux-là est grand !

Arrive Summertime, seule à la guitare. “Summertime bring me joy”.
La suite sera remplie d’amour.

"J'espère que je serai une aussi bonne maman que ma maman l'a été pour moi."

22h49, la nouvelle est donnée à tous au micro, avec la musique pour témoin: Sanne attend un enfant... “et c’est lui le coupable”, désignant son compagnon de scène, accompagné d'un sourire dédié.

Incapable de prendre des photos, je profite de la folle ambiance et laisse l’appareil tourner en mode film. L'état second dans lequel je me trouve est un mélange de victoire, de partage, de joie immense.
Cinquante minutes intenses d'un concert hors-normes.


Il n’y a pas de hasard, les coeurs dessinés avant le concert étaient juste appropriés à cette belle soirée, synonyme de bonheur absolu pour quelques-uns ici.

Juste après l'annonce

Les deux titres du rappel de Selah en vidéo

Et ça, j'adore !

Découvrir au petit déjeuner que Selah Sue jouera dans quelques festivals en Belgique cet été, j'aime.

Que dis-je... j'adore.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

How to say...
It's like if I had just smoken 23 joints.

Fan's got hard life

Ce matin en allumant l'ordinateur, je réalise que Selah vient de sortir son nouveau single et c'est Reason qui est arrivé !

Wowowow !

C'est normalement que je clique sur la vidéo afin de pouvoir découvrir ce nouveau titre !

Mais pourquoi cela ne fonctionne pas ?!!

Mon amie belge partage la chanson sur sa page Facebook... c'est qu'elle peut l'écouter.
Je commence à comprendre : les Belges sont privilégiés !

J'ai donc pris l'avion le plus rapidement possible...

qui m'a emmené dans le Port d'Amsterdam...

...où j'ai tranquillement pu écouter plusieurs fois le nouveau single.

Une voix toujours élevée, élevée comme dans Won't go for more sur l'EP Alone.
On the edge encore.
Pas vraiment l'habitude mais pourquoi pas.

Du coup, un titre à tension. Electro, presque électrique.
Et des choeurs. Sa propre voix ?!

Track #3. La place du tube. La lourde tâche de remplacer Raggamuffin.
Inch Allah.

L'occasion de me rappeler la toute première fois en live à la Gaîté Lyrique...

 Et de décider avec un peu de raison, de rentrer à la maison.

I announce myself that...

Alone EP has been released ! :)))

Kwart over negen

Yeaaaaaay, my country also passed the U.S. test !

But I may soon have to change some of my lyrics.

Proficiat

Is it the way you say ?

C'est la Fête !

En tout cas, pour moi...

 

 Et pour vous ?

One more festival !

Ceci n'est pas un poisson d'avril.

This is a new...

electro feature. :)

Le jour de gloire est arrivé.

Finally.
Concert.
Liège.
2014.
13 juillet.

The song that changed everything

There are some days, some moments that are some kind of magical.
Some moments where you can't explain what is just happening.
That you live something exceptional and only yourself realize.
That you could smile or seem happier and that people around you may see your face changes, but whatever.
So much the better for everyone.

Where yesterday, in front of my tabs booklet, I didn't know "what song to work on".
When my music teacher asked me, Destiny let me turn sheets of one by one.
And I fell on Raggamuffin (Sanne Putseys, 2010).
OK. To play this song, you must "be rhythmed" yourself and enjoy doing bar chords.
It is sure: it wasn't me when I asked him to study Raggamuffin.

"Oh yes, I know that song !", he said, and started to hum the song.
Then I started to do the first notes, and he did the following after he saw the right chords on my score.

"This is a song you even play it funky !".
OK, right. Play it funky. Do you know me, really ?
And he showed me.

It's a story of "ups and downs", of "ternary" thing, of doing it "5 times...
Of trying and doing it successfully, and glimpse things more than more in grey.

It was like Raggamuffin became one of my friends.
The chords didn't sound so perfectly but I did bars like I never did before.
It let enter inexplicable energy into my arms, body and mind, so much that I would have been ready to play like the whole Selah songbook !

Other artists songs came also and all these songs semt to come so well that I made a wish at this moment.
The wish that later I could be able to play like I did during this incredible discovery moment:
Raggamuffin still a bit seems to be one of my friends.

Thank you Thomas, thank you Selah (once more), and Merry Christmas to everyone who read this blog...

PS: After the lesson, Raggamuffin helped me also to become a perfect xylophonist for a jam session.

Selah Sue official new movie !

D'oh.

Pic-of-the-Day: She used to tell she likes to...

...cook. Fortunately, she does music better.

© Wim Thijs (AKS)

Song-of-the-Day: Jailhouse rap

Lauryn Hill - Consumerism (2013)

How I survived a 14-day no-Selah Sue diet

It actually results from a period called "holidays", which takes you from home to another pleasant location which is supposed to change your mind, spend good times and let you take pretty pictures of what you live, camera helping to remember. It's supposed to and it did.

What about this diet ?
Because yes, you did read well: I did not listen to any Selah Sue song during 14 days... -I wish it doesn't sound like a Bill Clinton quote-.
While I introduce myself being someone that couldn't live without listening that music for two days in a row (I didn't quote myself because it's being big-head)...

Well. To try to start with an explication, I would say first that Selah Sue music is not really my partner's cup of tea: one of the hardest points to struggle with in my everyday life !
I try to find some tricks sometimes, with let sounding some covers (that she never heard before) where Selah's voice is less recognizable, or put some Adele song (that she likes) and then play a Selah one for that she could have a thought like "I finally don't dislike her voice so much".
Tries.
Again.
But it doesn't upset me. ;-)
So I couldn't stay hooked at my Selah Sue mp3 folder like I usually do.

He says "No Selah Sue", OMG

During these hours to drive and kilometers to do, I've decided to put radios.
Just because it changes habits, gives another ambiance, a summer one. French radios do it really good, with games, reports or other broadcasts. Good point for no Selah Sue in vakanties.
OMG, I said "no Selah Sue".

Of course, good habits are very difficult to lose and it was with great difficulties that I listened to Dutch or Flemish Belgian (worse still) people in camping talk to each other. At every moment I expected to hear Sanne Putseys voice to join the conversation (and start a song then)... but it was really undreamt of !
At the same time, this was reassuring me and made ​​me think that somehow, it would come again. Someday.

I actually slightly lied. Because this great pain calmed itself down when on a corner in Quimper, the owner of a vintage shop became my dealer and came to give me my dose.

It happened at the middle of my stay. To choose, the best moment given to be able to hold out.
Visiting this -kitsch and tasty- retro shop, I was concerned with old LPs that became ashtrays, original vintage packagings from 60's to 70's, still fit old toys or some Paris Match copies with coronation of Queen Elisabeth pictures.

The unexpected happened.

A vintage soundscape as well. Rock'n'roll oldies, disco hits, among other things.
It happened when I was just about to leave that shop, that shop of a man who became my 1-minute dealer. I was hit by 5 bass vibrations in G. Then 4 other bass notes. E♭.

A reminiscence.
A liberation.

What comes next is only happiness coming through my veins.
A voice, a rhythm; obviously familiar.
My distress came to an end as my rescuer's playlist was injecting me This World...
Life could go on normally.


What else to say.

If I was about to forget Selah Sue -OMG he said "forget Selah Sue"-, randomness helped me being set again on the Straight Path.
Never, I say, never, I would forget that man with such fantastic music tastes who gave that energy to go on with believing.

When you think everything is against you, think about the power of life and above all, keep on believing in Others and Yourself...
It works as this is how I survived a 14-day no-Selah Sue diet.

Soon on this channel, "Meanwhile..."

The King is going to abdicate but...

Be prepared to welcome the new belgian Queen !

Some people already know... but this world is about to know who rules for real !

Thank you Freddy for the crown.
Thanks Abaca for the picture.

東京でセラ·スー！

On august 10th, Selah Sue (along with her musicians, I'm wishing them) will touch the East Asia ground for the first time !

She'll take part of the SummerSonic 2013 in Tokyo (Japan) which welcomes... more than 100 bands (!) on 7 stages. The festival stands also in Osaka but Selah Sue hasn't been invited to play twice.

Worldwide big names and japanese bands/singers are invited: Metallica, Muse, Stereophonics, Pet Shop Boys... Even M.I.A. (who had some impact on Selah's music) is being present the same day on Sonic Stage while Selah Sue will perform on Garden Stage.

Her introduction on the official festival website says that "[she] was an ordinary girl that had dreamed of becoming a ballerina in the future": I don't know where they found that she chose this early destiny, but they did!

But I think the main thing to know about this first trip to Asia is that Japanese are going to experience the magic of セラ·スー ...

Surprise-of-the-Day !

OK. Today was my birthday and I wanted to share this little surprise with you all, as I received some gifts from family and friends that pleased me very much.
I think this sound is quite rare to be called a "surprise" and I wish you'll like it.
When I listened to it for the first time, it's like it was a pearl into my hands.
This moment has been mentioned so many times by Sanne that it's been part of the History.
A moment that lasts 10 minutes and just happens once.

Sound isn't great and you've got no pictures, okay... but close your eyes and live the History again...

10 things to learn from the Défilé Étam

THE SHOW IS DONE!
You got just 10 things to learn.


1. Five female singers, only five songs (or almost)

2. Raggamuffin is still one of the friends

3. 2013 girls are breastless

4. Not so easy to play guitar, walking to go on a stage, isn't it

5. It's funny too

6. Défilés de mode are actually very short

7. Raggamuffin is a song you can easily walk on, défilé and show off your body on

8. Jordi, Yannick, Joachim and Erik have been substituted by 4 unknown girls. Snif/Yes!

9. You can watch it again and again and replay it again !

10. THIS IS SELAH SUE 2013! FINALLY! MWAH!