{"id":16551,"date":"2015-03-25T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2017-04-15T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:18:16","slug":"midweek-music-break-angela-easterling-un-coin-a-nous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/midweek-music-break-angela-easterling-un-coin-a-nous\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Angela Easterling, “Un coin \u00e0 nous”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Angela<\/a><\/p>\n

[Easterling either has a new album out (release date described variously as “Spring 2015” and “Summer 2015”), or it’s on its way: in either case, the title is <\/em>Common Law Wife. Maybe coincidentally, most of her recent publicity photos feature her standing outside, in profile, wearing a plain white dress, shift, or slip — as though to suggest a wedding. I like the black veil, though.]<\/em><\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time I’ve featured a song from Angela Easterling’s 2012 French-language album, Mon Secret<\/em>. (That would have been in a post from a couple-three years ago<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But I have been listening a lot to this song for the past couple months. The title translates, she says, to “A corner for us,” and there’s indeed something comforting, sheltering, enwrapping — nookish<\/em> — about the experience of listening to it…<\/p>\n

…even when you can’t understand French (as I can’t).<\/p>\n

As in that earlier post, I depend wholly on the lyrics Easterling provided with the album. They were co-written by her and a friend, a native of France and university instructor of the French language, and I’m in no position to judge either the translation or Easterling’s pronunciation. I just know it sounds lovely<\/em>, right, wrong, inappropriately interpreted or otherwise. From the accompanying and soloing string instrument — what is that, anyhow? a mandolin? a dulcimer, or steel guitar? — to the lilt of Easterling’s voice, this song, well, soothes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n[Lyrics<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Edit to add [2015-03-26]:<\/strong><\/em> After I posted this piece, I heard (via Twitter) from Angela Easterling herself — who advised me that “Un coin \u00e0 nous” wasn’t truly original for the Mon Secret<\/em> album. It had first appeared on her 2011 disc, Beguiler<\/em>, as a song called “Pocket”… in English.<\/p>\n

The lyrics<\/a> to “Pocket” closely track the English translation of “Un coin \u00e0 nous,” with one notable exception, right there in the line which provides the title:<\/p>\n

Let’s go… The whole world is just us two. Let go.
\nThere’s no one here but me and you…
\nOur little pocket <\/em>in the corner of the night…
\nWhere the shadow of the light is blue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Pocket’s” music has a bit less of the dreamy Continental feel of “Un coin \u00e0 nous,” or maybe I’m just imagining I here more of a twang in the original. Either way, the song is a standout.<\/p>\n

Here’s “Pocket”:
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