{"id":19789,"date":"2020-06-25T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:13:34","slug":"etre-dieu-dali-versus-wakhevitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/25\/etre-dieu-dali-versus-wakhevitch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00catre Dieu: Dal\u00ed versus Wakh\u00e9vitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Or should that be Wakh\u00e9vitch versus Dal\u00ed? The so-called “Dal\u00ed opera”, recorded in 1974, is more an opera by Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch (music) and Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n (libretto) which is interrupted from time to time by Salvador Dal\u00ed’s shouts, squeaks, impromptu lectures and even occasional snatches of song. (Dal\u00ed couldn’t sing.)<\/p>\n

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\u00catre Dieu<\/em> has always been the least accessible of the Wakh\u00e9vitch compositions, difficult to find and an uneven listening experience that sprawls over three discs. But the (deleted) Eurostar reissue looks very nice: three gold CDs and a thick booklet with a translation of the rambling cosmic scenario, all packaged in a blue felt box. I’ve been rewatching the best of the Dal\u00ed documentaries over the past couple of weeks so I’ve felt more accommodating towards \u00catre Dieu<\/em> than usual; I’m a Wakh\u00e9vitch cultist, so any Wakh\u00e9vitch is good Wakh\u00e9vitch, but I still need to be in the mood for this one. The immediate pleasures are mostly peripheral: Igor’s synthesizers, Delphine Seyrig as one of the celestial components of Dal\u00ed’s “divine” character, plus Didier Batard and Fran\u00e7ois Auger from Richard Pinhas’s rock outfit, Heldon, on bass and drums. The Heldon duo get to rock-out properly on the third disc. Buried somewhere in the intersection between this recording, Jean-Christophe Averty’s Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/em><\/a> (1970) and Jos\u00e9 Montes-Baquer’s Impressions de la Haute Mongolie<\/em><\/a> (1976) is an intimation of how Dal\u00ed might have appeared (or misbehaved) as the Emperor in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade film of Dune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed\u2019s discography<\/a>
\n\u2022 The music of Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or should that be Wakh\u00e9vitch versus Dal\u00ed? The so-called “Dal\u00ed opera”, recorded in 1974, is more an opera by Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch (music) and Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n (libretto) which is interrupted from time to time by Salvador Dal\u00ed’s shouts, squeaks, impromptu lectures and even occasional snatches of song. (Dal\u00ed couldn’t sing.) \u00catre Dieu has always been … Continue reading “\u00catre Dieu: Dal\u00ed versus Wakh\u00e9vitch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: \u00catre Dieu: Dal\u00ed versus Wakh\u00e9vitch","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,3,18],"tags":[3071,3471,3470,6461,1478,3072,891,87],"class_list":["post-19789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-music","category-surrealism","tag-delphine-seyrig","tag-didier-batard","tag-francois-auger","tag-heldon","tag-igor-wakhevitch","tag-manuel-vazquez-montalban","tag-richard-pinhas","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-59b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}