Saturday, 27 March 2021

We want to keep DANCING

DANSER ENCORE (HK - 2020)

Clip tourné à Avignon

recorded in Avignon (France)

Cloître des Carmes le 10/12/2020

in the Cloister of the Carmelites

Avec : HK -

Chant Jacotte Recolin -

Violon Mathilde Dupuch -

accordéon Martin Choquet -

saxophone Raphaël André -

trombone Saïd Zarouri -

guitare Thibault Delbart -

Thank you to our friends, singers and dancers,

and to all the star re-lighters

who participated in this beautiful adventure!

With English Sub-Titles

Lyrics in French:

Refrain :

Nous on veut continuer à danser encore

Voir nos pensées enlacer nos corps

Passer nos vies sur une grille d'accords * * * * * * *

Refrain x2

Nous sommes des oiseaux de passage

Jamais dociles ni vraiment sages

Nous ne faisons pas allégeance

À l’aube en toutes circonstances

Nous venons briser le silence

Et quand le soir à la télé Monsieur le bon roi a parlé

Venu annoncer la sentence

Nous faisons preuve d’irrévérence

Mais toujours avec élégance

Refrain x2

Auto-métro-boulot-conso

Auto attestation qu’on signe

Absurdité sur ordonnance

Et malheur à celui qui pense

Et malheur à celui qui danse

Chaque mesure autoritaire

Chaque relent sécuritaire

Voit s’envoler notre confiance

Ils font preuve de tant d’insistance

Pour confiner notre conscience

Refrain x2

Ne soyons pas impressionnables

Par tous ces gens déraisonnables

Vendeurs de peur en abondance

Angoissants, jusqu’à l’indécence

Sachons les tenir à distance

Pour notre santé mentale

Sociale et environnementale

Nos sourires, notre intelligence

Ne soyons pas sans résistance

Les instruments de leur démence

Refrain x2

"Danser encore"

par des artistes et des citoyens

by the artists and citizens of

- La Rochelle -

21 mars 2021

and not a "social(ist)" distancing in sight

On 20 March 2021

at the Fontaine des Innocents in the Marais in Paris yet another rendition of "Danser Encore". The star participant at this demo was Dr. Alexandra Henrion-Caude. Read the commentaries under the U-Tube video to see how much this "Grande Dame" is venerated in France and read here at the Gates of Vienna, WHY that is so.

Vlad Tepes and the RairFoundation also featured quite a few interviews with Dr. Alexandra Henrion-Claude. However, access seems to be hampered, regularily, by technical 'challenges'. It would be just soooo tempting to get paranoid, sometimes.

The French spirit, elegant and feisty, is stirring again which makes me happy and hopeful, but also somewhat melancholic, since - with no intention whatsoever of ever taking "the experimental Jab" - and the so-called "green passports" arriving faster than enemy rockets (if we let them) I will be unable to return to the seemingly re-invigorated France anytime soon. The 5 ft "tall" Qantas Fuehrer opened the dance of "no jab no fly" blackmail , with the bovine approval of our soi-disant "conservative" PM. So, unless there are some decent and ethical airlines left.....flying out of Australia will be - for the time being - as challenging as leaving on foot.

Anyway, one place in Paris I will not miss, as in recent years is has quasi joined the "No-Go-Zones" is the Gare du Nord, and yet, "Dancer Encore" made it even there....and that as early as on 4. March 2021:

This is communism done properly (*)

(*) I found this bone-chilling video on VladTepes who gave it a title which, like so often at VladTepes, hits the nail right on its head.

I usually introduce some music after videos but, to paraphrase Theodor Adorno who, in 1949 wrote "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" I think to play music after this would be barbaric also.

While the above horror happened in the past (although in a relatively recent past) after watching the following commentary from Tucker Carlson I shiver at the thought that it just might be a portent of things to come, if - whoever pulls the strings of the present US Government - prevails.

Saturday, 6 March 2021

Likes and Dislikes for March 2021

In these confusing times of total fluidity,

let me ask the question

in a comfortable, old-fashioned, sexist way:

Who is wearing the pants in this marriage ? ;)

This is child abuse !

Stop it NOW !

My heart rejoiced at this French flashmob performing at the Gare du Nord in Paris on 4 March 2021, proving that some French are still awake, are still French and will remain French. We will subtitle this little glimmer of hope very soon, but meanwhile just enjoy the flavour of this rare pearl whose main message is: