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PREMIERES SECOUSSES, 28 novembre 2002
1965,Le premier album de Bert Jansch, et déjà cette voix étrange et attachante, cette guitare au son claquant si caractéristique, enregistré "à la maison" sans superflu. Juste un voix, une guitare, et des chansons, quelles chansons! et nous qui écoutons comme derrière une porte. Ecoutons! et passons la porte où nous attendent les merveilles du folk anglais des années 60, Bert Jansch mais aussi Davey Graham, John Renbourn...Ecoutons...et passons la porte...
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Bert Jansch plays a borrowed guitar in his flat, 29 avril 2005
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Neil Young once said that Bert Jansch did for the acoustic guitar in the 1960s what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar, and you can take that statement at face value or you can listen to "Smokey River," the second track on Jansch's debut album and make up your own mind (ironically, it is one of the few songs Jansch did not write). Chances are you will not have heard any of these songs before. The most recognizable would be "Angi," an instrumental piece written by Davey Graham, that Paul Simon later recorded on an early Simon & Garfunkel album. This album also has Jansch's biggest "hit," the haunting "Needle of Death," written about the death of a friend because of heroin. But you would need to have at least a passing familiarity with the British Folk scene in the Sixties to probably have heard it before. The first song, "Strolling Down the Highway" is a good choice simple because Jansch gets to ask, "can you hear my guitar rockin'?" His singing is pleasant enough, but it is his finger-picking on that acoustic guitar that draws our attention from start to finish. On some songs, such as "Oh How Your Love Is Strong" I had to catch myself from being disappointed that he was going to start singing, because the introduction was compelling enough that lyrics seemed somewhat superfluous. But the same would be true for "I Have No Time" or most any non-instrumental song on the album. The lyrics consist of rather simple and standard folk images, such as birds and cherry trees. Besides "Smokey River," the other instrumental tracks are "Finches," "Alice's Wonderland," "Casbah," and "Angie," with my favorite being "Veronica." Of course, you can add the bonus "Instrumental Medley" track to this list as well. Of the ones with lyrics, besides "Needle of Death" it would have to be "Running From Home" that stands out for me, but "Dreams of Love" is good too. What is even more impressive about this stunning debut album is that Jansch recorded it on a borrowed guitar on a tape machine in his flat. His guitar playing mixes classical and jazz guitar with American acoustic blues, and it is no wonder that when someone like Jimmy Page was learning to play the guitar that he would listen to Jansch's recordings ("Black Mountain Side" off of Led Zeppelin's debut album is Page's reworking of Jansch's "Blackwaterside"). If you like what you hear here there are plenty of other Bert Jansch albums to check out, including several in which he teams up with fellow guitarist John Renbourn, which eventually led to their work with the group Pentangle.
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Austère mais essentiel, 19 juillet 2007
Un Anglais qui fait du folk. Une guitare acoustique, une voix pas exceptionnelle (et encore, pas toujours, il y a plusieurs instrumentaux). Même pas un harmonica comme Dylan au début des 60''s. Le genre de truc dont on écoute en baillant deux morceaux avant d''appuyer sur la touche Eject du lecteur et de passer à autre chose. Et bien, contrairement aux a priori, ce disque est superbe. Son auteur est la figure emblématique du folk anglais, d''abord en solo (ce Cd est son premier), ensuite avec son complice John Renbourn avant de fonder cette institution british qu'est Pentangle. Une virtuosité impressionnante (Jansch fut hâtivement décrit a posteriori comme le Hendrix acoustique, alors que selon moi il se rapproche plutôt du bluesman « diabolique » Robert Johnson par sa dextérité) suffirait à rendre ce Cd captivant. Mais cette austérité dépouillée, sans la moindre velléité pop (pop que taquineront bientôt les plus célèbres Donovan et Cat Stevens, ou aux USA Simon & Garfunkel), si elle ne vaudra à Bert Jansch qu''une notoriété réservée à une poignée d''initiés, suffira à en faire une influence revendiquée pour des gens aussi cultes que Nick Drake, aussi universels que Neil Young. « Bert Jansch » est un des quatre ou cinq meilleurs disques de folk des sixties. A posséder.
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