Cuniot, Denis
Je Voudrais Dire Encore
This beautiful album, based on the poems of Edith Bruck, recited and set to music by Denis Cuniot, constitutes, through its power, a true ode to humanity addressed to us living beings. The simple and majestic beauty of these poems, interpreted with voice and piano, leaves no one untouched. We are drawn into a journey of dreams and nightmares, of grief and joy. The clarity of Edith Bruck's words, interwoven with Denis Cuniot's voice and his piano interpretation, strikes a pivotal point within each of us. This point, tenuous, at the extreme edges of our sensitivity, on the border between the beauty of life, the horror of inhumanity and rage in the face of hatred, comes to shake us up. Alternating between klezmer and Yiddish music and improvisations, the virtuoso klezmer pianist delivers a truly remarkable performance. He doesn't simply serve the poetwhich he does with exquisite sensitivity but through his voice and piano playing, he draws us into the very heart of Edith Bruck's words. In these uncertain times, this musical and poetic work is also to be seen as a commitment to preserving one's capacity for humanity, to fighting against those who think they can sweep away memory with a stroke of hatred, by affirming, as Edith Bruck proves throughout her work, that "Our duty is to live and never die."