Fates (Erik Mongrain album)
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| Studio album by Erik Mongrain | ||
| Released | December 2006 | |
| Recorded | 2006 | |
| Genre | Acoustic guitar | |
| Length | 42min 10s | |
| Label | Prophase Music | |
| Producer(s) | Alter Ego Musique | |
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Fates is the first album of the young canadian guitarist Erik Mongrain. Released in December 2006, Fates contains 10 songs like AirTap!, PercussienFa, I Am Not, Fusions or La Dernière Pluie. This first album, produced by Serge Fiori (see Harmonium), and it will remain an innovation sonority technique of tapping.
Mongrain have worked on this album for over two years, and it's now available on his Website. The hard copy will be released worlwide on may 2007. The CD cover refers to a chess piece, drawn by Yan Mongrain, guitarist's brother.
[edit] Tracks list
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- PercussienFa - 3:53 Listen
- Fates - 4:59 Listen
- La Dernière Pluie - 3:14
- Fusions - 3:24 Listen
- Géométrie D'une Erreur - 4:40
- Mais Quand? - 4:41 Listen
- AirTap! - 3:48 Listen
- Confusion #8 - 3:27
- Interprétations - 4:17
- I Am Not - 5:29
[edit] Tracks translations and meanings
(from CD booklet, written by Erik's hand)
1. PercussienFa (Neologism « Percussion on Fa »)
- None explanations nor reasons but percussions of joy, discoveries and improvisations of a chosen musical structure!
2. Fates
- I do not believe in destiny, chance does not exist... All is synchrony. Nothings happens for nothing, everything has it's purpose, even the smallest thing! My vision it is, not necessarily yours! Here is however my ode to this synchrony called life.
3. La dernière pluie (from french : The last rain)
- I love rain, I am rain's fool... I imagines what would be one last day on earth, with on last rain..!
4. Fusions
- An utopian scenario! Two beings meeting by a canicular day, amidst a lively crowd. Their sight cross each other's, fusing from inside. Then scattered away from within the multitude.
5. Géométrie d'une erreur (from french : Geometry Of An Error)
- A beautiful mistake of judgement from deep inside... Oh how can we hasty when passion flows about!
6. Mais Quand? (from french : But When?)
- A french proverb states : "We harvest what we sow!" And me questionning: "But when?"
7. AirTap!
- St-Sebastian, Spain, 9 AM. Sitting on stone stairs, underneath the shades of a tree. A pure sun edging out through the leaves, drawing crests of light. My coffee on my left and my guitar on my knees. It's with a heart filled with joy that these melodies came to me... and I played!
8. Confusion #8
- There is many types of confusions, sad or grey, frenetic or joyful... Here is one I have lived. A confusion in which one could lose his mind, every choice appearing to me as either a good one or perhaps the bad one. For in the end not chose anything!
9. Interprétations
- The amplitude that can create one interpretation, be it true or false.
10. I am not
- Interogations without any rationality and without any apparent reasons that assaulted me, suddenly, as if possessed by some force. A mental combat against a voice that states the opposite of what you've always been!
