Complainte sur certains ennuis

Little bittersweet song in E major (I'm not exaggerating) (text in French subtitled)

Hi @Krisp!

The octave major 3rd's in the piano that permeate your piece remind me of some Rachmaninoff piece for two pianos or perhaps Debussy!  I've actually written a song titled "Ennui" about the corona-virus pandemic/lockdown and your song reminded me that it's actually a French word!  LoL  I think this might just be one of the most simple and because of that, accessible songs of yours you've ever written!  The song is really charming and I can imagine it in a film.  The string writing is also very affecting in combination with the piano and the voice.  Well done and thanks for sharing!

I'm loving your voice and singing!
It does feel sad, like someone is sighing? but I don't understand your text I have to admit it goes over me...
is it a love song?

also the way you produced it is incredible!

Oh, thank you again,

Yes, it's a disillusioned love song.

The poet regrets that the loved one is ultimately not attentive to him other than by frivolous play.

He generalizes and his words might seem bitter to us towards women if he did not mock himself.

It's all the art of Jules Laforgues, to know how to tell us both the sublime and the ridiculous, the irony and the metaphysical aspiration...

He is a great poet too unknown in France, who died at the age of 27 of tuberculosis in 1887.

On 2/22/2025 at 4:05 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi @Krisp!

The octave major 3rd's in the piano that permeate your piece remind me of some Rachmaninoff piece for two pianos or perhaps Debussy!  I've actually written a song titled "Ennui" about the corona-virus pandemic/lockdown and your song reminded me that it's actually a French word!  LoL  I think this might just be one of the most simple and because of that, accessible songs of yours you've ever written!  The song is really charming and I can imagine it in a film.  The string writing is also very affecting in combination with the piano and the voice.  Well done and thanks for sharing!

 

You're right, I wanted here a French song spirit, maybe the beginning of the century.And musically, I wanted to try to install this contemplative climate. The means are therefore very scarce on purpose.
It's really nice that you talk about Rachmaninov because I recently had the immense privilege of singing again with the choir for whom I work the fabulous vespers. It's so beautiful, inevitably it leaves its borrowing...