C’est raté, c’est raté
Duration: 3:59
Simone
Duration: 4:09
Tu tapes trop fort
Duration: 3:36
Appalderie
Duration: 4:29
Que le temps est long
Duration: 5:40
Mon père avait un p’tit …
Duration: 2:00
Qu'est-ce que tu as ?
Duration: 7:43
To close the album, I had used two two-note chords that i had found on a jazz classics album. This unauthorised ìloanî made Jacques Dejean‘s, the producer of the album, angry. It earned me a speech on intellectual property and artistic copyright. All at once, I had become a thief, a criminal, one of the very first audio pirates of the music world. From time to time, the discussion resurfaced, with the prosecution side (plagiarism, dishonesty) versus the defence (the banality of what was borrowed, the innumerable pieces that end the same way).
Initially, the beginning of “ c'est raté ” had eight bars of drums that Jacques Dejean thought were pointless and uninteresting, and I wasn‘t too sure about them either. One day, I told him :
- Jacques, I think you‘re right about the eight bars at the beginning of “ c‘est raté ”, there‘s no need for them.
- At last, you‘re being reasonable… So, when‘s this album going to be finished ?
- I still haven‘t found an end for it !
He looked at me, couldn‘t help grinning, and answered, after a moment of silence:
- Albert, you bastard !