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Bertrand Damien

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About Me


Tonight, the sea that never keeps silent
Murmurs the soft spasms of its buried heart
To the irregular beat of a measured cadence
And rises like a lascivious bosom
Between intermittent deeper breaths
Under the shelter of indolent cypresses
I drink the Moorish anise liqueur
And languidly kiss the black olives
Which my languor cracks with lethargic effort
Beneath the arbor that rustles and swishes
Easily with the new breeze…
Excerpt from the Cretan Poems, V - Chania, 2007
Translation by Irina Ivon, 2008
Vanité d’artiste
Oui, l’Art est long et le Temps est court
Nous a dit Baudelaire
Ce Temps qui ne connaît pas la beauté des calculs infinis
Il égrène juste les secondes qui me restent
Dans cette urne anonyme et terne
Et comme un voleur, je plonge la main dedans
Avec ce vain espoir d’en sauver quelques-unes
Pour les suspendre sur le Fil d’Eternité
Aux côtés des illustres œuvres, déjà oubliées

12 mai 2008
Producer, composer-song writer, lyrics writer, and bass player @ Aint No Dub (also sing a bit sometimes, on "Will You Come" for instance).
Although, it looks like I'm dedicating more and more this page to my poetry. Read my blog, subscribe if you like the words I'm posting there.
Producteur, Compositeur, Auteur, et bassiste @ Aint No Dub (Je chante aussi un peu de temps en temps, bien que je sois sévèrement limité dans cette matière... Ecouter "Will You Come" ci-dessous pour exemple).
Cependant, il semble que je consacre de plus en plus cette page à ma poésie. Lisez mon blog myspace (en haut de cette page), abonnez-vous si vous aimez les mots que je publie ici.
Si vous aimez la poésie et les nouvelles que je publie ici, vous pouvez en découvrir davantage en lisant ce livre :
Mon blog perso en français est consultable ici : blog du CTD Vous pouvez aussi écouter un peu de musique ci-dessous (Ain't No Dub), et plus bas encore des choses encore plus personnelles et moins pop-rock-dub si j'ose dire.
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J'ai passé les 15-20 dernières années à voyager à travers le monde, pour des raisons professionnelles ou par plaisir, visitant plus d'une soixantaine de pays. Moyen-Orient, Europe, Asie du Sud-Est, Amériques... rencontrant des gens, découvrant des cultures différentes, etc. J'en ai appris quelques leçons.

My Interests

Universe, Earth, Life, Human beings, Women, Beauty, Women, Arts, Women, Philosophy, and still Women. Armagnac, Cognac, good wine.
L'univers, la Terre, la Vie, les Humains, les Femmes, la Beauté, les Femmes, les Arts, les Femmes, la Philosophie, et toujours les Femmes. L'Armagnac, le Cognac, le bon vin.

I'd like to meet:

People who have something to say. Alternatively, people who say something with their eyes.
Des gens qui ont des choses à dire. Alternativement, des gens qui disent des choses avec leurs yeux.

Music:

Tons of things. See a list of my influences there:
Des tonnes de trucs. Voir une liste de mes influences sur : Aint No Dub

Movies:

Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Alien. This is it almost (yeah, ok fine, plus hundreds...). I am lazy reminding and listing the whole stuff that I love. Let's add Brazil (Terry Gillian), the Monthy Pythons in general. Kill Bill (Tarantino).
Star Wars, Le Seigneur des Anneaux, Alien. C'est à peu près tout (ouaii, bon d'accord, plus des centaines d'autres... Je suis un peu feignasse à me rappeler et lister tout ce que j'aime). Disons, ce qui me vient aussi à l'esprit immédiatement : Brazil (Terry Gillian), et les Monthy Pythons en général. Kill Bill (Tarantino). Bien. Etc, etc.

Television:

Television fucks your brain. Except maybe some good documentaries, rugby matches (France and Stade Toulousain), and cycling, as I used to be a good amateur, not too bad one (and only with clean fresh water, nothing else).
Sauf quelques documentaires bien foutus, les matches de rugby (Stade Toulousain et France), et le cyclisme, dont j'ai été un bon pratiquant amateur très assidu et pas trop nul (à l'eau claire s'il vous plait).
A video of my band, Ain't No Dub.
Tomorrow
Uploaded by espmusictune
Lyrics:
Tomorrow
© Bertrand Damien - ESP Music
Textes déposés All rights reserved
Oh, drifting, drifting through the city
Like a sailor on the sea
Oh, looking for your presence
Yes I was so sure, that you would be there
Day after day, around the corner
Next door
Hum, hoping, hoping to see your eyes
I’ll be back tomorrow
I know you’ll cross the street
Like a siren in the sea
You still don’t know me
But I always knew, you will recognize me
This day
Chorus
Oh, tomorrow
In the death of your eyes
In the heat of your arms
In the whisper of your lips
Oh, despairing, despairing to kiss your eyes
You won’t be there tomorrow
I won’t blaze in your light
I’m sinking in the sea, night after night
You never heard me, day after day
Crying...
Oh, tomorrow
In the death of your eyes
In the heat of your arms
In the whisper of your lips
Oh, tomorrow
In the death of your eyes
In the heat of your arms
In the whisper of your lies

Will You Come
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Books:

I read everyday, there are too many books I love to mention.

Je lis tous les jours, il y a trop de livres que j'adore pour les citer.

Heroes:

No More Heroes (The Stranglers, 1977)

My Blog

End of cycle.

In a day like this one, poetry does not exist. My words do not have any savour, just sourness. There will be a time for poetry, later.Is this real?When one wanted it without wanting itWhen one still...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:45:00 PST

Birthday gift - Cadeau d'anniversaire

I am a lucky man, do you know that?I have wonderful friends who love me and that I love.Irina sent me today her translations of my Cretan Poems (read them here in English: Cretan Poems,  and he...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:07:00 PST

Cretan Poems

Ive got a nice birthday gift from my dearest Irina.The Cretan Poems were written last year, on my trip to Crete. I had posted them on my former page (Mr Aint), though; it was my own translation, f...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:20:00 PST

Poèmes Crétois

Cest mon anniversaire demain. Irina ma fait un joli cadeau en me proposant une nouvelle traduction anglaise complète de mes poèmes Crétois (à lire ici : Cretan Poems). Du coup, cest une opportuni...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:16:00 PST

Waking of Poets / Eveil de poètes

I am inviting you here to a poetic exercise. I am leaving here this poem for some days and invite you to decorticate its metaphors and structure. In a few days, I will come back to give you a full a...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:47:00 PST

Truth makes you freer / La vérité vous rend plus libre

(version française plus bas)Is any truth good to say? Better not to know, we often think, by deducing that the nuisance caused by the knowledge of an unpleasant truth makes us unhappy and that it is...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:43:00 PST

Europa

I'd like to share with you one of my first collaborative work in music and video.In 2005, I contributed to a collective CD project between musicians from various parts of the world, all having in comm...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:40:00 PST

With the Sea / Avec la mer NOW WITH THE SOUND :-)

Alright then, I am re-inviting you to this blog, because I just added little embedded players... For you to listen to me, reading my poetry. In English (aww, awful accent, anyway...) and in French. Al...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:15:00 PST

Wheel of Seasons - Roue des saisons

(a repost from last year collection "Journey to my space")Thursday, April 19, 2007Wheel of SeasonsAutumn, my leaves are perishingThe trees with severe gazesRecite in a drone some tired reproofsHumus w...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:45:00 PST

Epilogue

A repost... the Epilogue of "The Journey to my space", that collection of poems completed last year, a story of my wanderings on myspace.I'll never forget you, J.(Version française en suivant)Epilogue...
Posted by Bertrand Damien on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:12:00 PST