Frères Sourires (14): Murat

Guestpost! Roger Grund on Jean-Louis Murat:

These days we are being bombarded with superlatives: the Best of This, the Greatest of That, the Most Influential Artist of the So and So Decade, you name the lot of these pointless accolades. Music writers particularly seem to have an incurable desire to declare their refined taste in pop music in the shape of ‘Top Too Much’ lists, as if subtlety, nuances and shades of grey are extinct.

But we know better than that. Music is neither speedscating nor a popularity contest. Music is art that lives in the mind of the listener, and transforms lives. So we come to listen to Au Mont Sans-Souci by Jean-Louis Murat, from 2001. So deceptively simple, yet ever so gently intriguing, so understated, and at the same time so compelling. Au Mont Sans-Souci is a song that lives and needs to be lived in, and that confronts how we live, love and die. Only the best music can do that. And that’s all there is to say about that.

Jean-Louis Murat - Au Mont Sans-Souci