Sonic Youth " Palais des congrès" - 25-10-09 - Paris - all photos © j.tatham 2009

maturity, honesty, sane
subversive, timeless, progressive
that’s what my senses whispered me after the show
some rock as an incredible stone

Sonic Youth
I feel so close, i feel healthy, free and alive eachtime i see them, each time i hear the sonic dis-melody.
I used to be a Cure’s fan when i was younger (how can we get old ? i ask myself sometimes, if youth stays the energy fo our belief)), but with Sonic Youth, fan can’t be the word, another approach. Here, i just respect, respect what they are given us.
Yeah…
it’s some good rock, creative, not stock in any certitude but only in research, calling into questions but keeping truthfulness in the meaning of sincerity.
Here, there is no traffic to make, just proposal, interrogation than can become sometimes impulsive, sometimes laconic and suddenly… instantaneous, nearly animal, a something that rescue then open.

It’s how i imagined music could be, and it’s how rock can be.
I feel secured after one of their concert because they break each fragment of boundaries cos they are over their own limit, over what they could fall into. It’s might be the place of magic.
Open minded, they open our regard and then my heart is washed, cleaned, ready to be filled again. Gaps are permitted. I find strengh again… after each of their show art remains, and for myself i feel that it will stay, grow and feed my life. They are giving so much, and mainly they maintain faith. That faith that the everyday is attacking, not the religion one, just the way to behave regarding a projection, that faith : base to anybody life.

The intelligence then is a sound. How to make a sound hasn’t to be learned, it just has to be heard, clear as a crasy balance we have to assumed.
They feed us then we are able to carry on because we’ve recieved.
We always need to catch the listening, because to often we lose and get deaf then dumb. We can always hear, we just forget to locate the direction of sounds. Nevertheless it’s here, born from something that has things to say, after we just have to answer.

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