Tribute to Serge Fiori | He loved us madly

Serge Fiori will be dead as he lived: in the messenger. Consequently, always where we do not expect him, never where we expect him, preferring to be forgotten when we saw him everywhere, and resurring in the news when we thought it was lost.

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Barely the writer Victor-Lévy Beaulieu had extinguished that Fiori was leaving in turn. Furthermore, The day of Saint-Jean, moreover, as if to better remember how attached it was to this country still to do.

On this day of national funeral, however, we must beware of easy recovery. Meanwhile, Because if Fiori. For example, tribute serge fiori | he son of an Italian immigrant, was undoubtedly a great Quebecer (much more than ” remarkable Canadian “, As Minister Steven Guilbeault recently said it), he was above all an exceptional artist, whose trajectory has led him always further in the search for our common humanity.

Fiori refused to live in a world where “everyone sits alone on their island^⁠1 ». Meanwhile,

He was a group of groups (before harmonium. Meanwhile, there was momentarily morphus and the counts harbourg^⁠2), Duos (with Richard Séguin, Louis-Jean Cormier) and sets (Le Ballroom Orchestra, led by his father Georges; the project of L’Heptadeled by Neil Chotem).

Et si. Furthermore, dans ses textes, Fiori parlait de lui-même, il préférait le plus souvent « oublier son nom » afin de retrouver, ne fût-ce que « pour un instant », cet autre tribute serge fiori | he qui constituait la part la plus précieuse de lui-même, ce « toi » aux mille visages – une amoureuse, un ami, un passant – qui le tenait en vie et lui donnait son élan : « Souffle un peu on a besoin d’air/C’est toi qui pars le courant/C’est toi, le courant d’air/C’est You who run by blowing. Meanwhile, »»

As if the artist’s “I” immediately recognized his insufficiency. Therefore, could not exist fully without a friendly presence, without this movement which brought him towards others. However, “There are two importance. Nevertheless, ” he wrote in Sagehis favorite song, the one he wanted us to play his funeral: “The first is you and me/the other is that we still have another day. In addition, »»

In a world where God himself-if he exists-“closed his eyes. Furthermore, his arms”, Fiori had chosen tribute serge fiori | he to turn to his fellow men, the only source of consolation: “Give the truth, I am hungry/give me happiness, I am afraid/there is nothing but it can know/because I know nothing. In addition, »»

And something tells me that if his songs expressed such thirst for relationship. it was that Fiori remained for himself a kind of enigma, which was still waiting to be resolved. “Tell me who I am,” he sang, perhaps hoping that one day someone gives him the key.

With his laughing eyes. his juvenile quickdraw, his warm and agile voice, capable of bursts of joy and yet so close to crying, Fiori had the gift of intimacy. His songs took the guts, to the point that everyone could believe that they had been written for him. “I thought of you,” he said in a discreet tribute serge fiori | he whisper, I sing “just for you”. “I come to you”, “I believe in you so hard,” he said, full of faith. Additionally, “Where are you. I can’t take it anymore/I don’t hear you anymore,” he was worried, who does not support silence and dreaming of reunion: “It feels good/knowing that you come back”.

Until the end. Fiori will have practiced the art of the link, recalling that the song remains the privileged space of communion, of the agreement found. In this era of the virtual. he deplored the derealization of human relationships and the rise of loneliness: “Everyone alone, everyone is alone/party, everyone is gone/[…] I am bored … “

Also. it is nothing to remove in Fiori to recall the precious contribution of those who surrounded him and allowed his incomparable work to exist. I think of Monique Fourux. tribute serge fiori | he pianist with such a just voice, of the soothing presence; to Denis Farmer, inventive and energetic drummer; at Libert Subirana, aerial saxophone; To Serge Locat, tightrope walker. Without forgetting the guitarist Michel Normandeau. who also contributed to the writing of the songs, and the bass player Louis Valois, founding members of the Harmonium group.

In the early 1970s. it should be remembered that no company wanted to produce the songs of this band of hair dreamers, deemed unnecessarily long and complicated, with their melodies full of modulations, their daring sequences, their incredible harmonies.

Fiori, already, was overflowing with the frame. But there was no question for him to accept the slightest compromise. Something in his art resisted labels and marketing strategies.

It was. I do not find any other word, a quest for transcendence, which tribute serge fiori | he had nothing to do with religion and its “cardboard cathedrals”, but rather was due to this need to discover something bigger, which goes beyond us and encompasses us, to this need to see wide and far, infinitely rare aspiration in a culture accustomed to settle for the ordinary. Fiori had understood that “the higher we are. the more everything is assembled”, that “the further we are, the more we look alike”.

With admirable obstinacy. he will have refused the banal and insignificance, dreaming of a “magic theater”, a “place of hope” which was going to find in L’Heptade His most successful expression.

Fiori’s ambition was so vast that he himself would end up feeling overwhelmed by this abyss above which he had had the audacity to walk. as if the work he had composed was inhabited by something too tribute serge fiori | he great for him, almost too beautiful, who risked leading to madness the one who, basically, had never wanted to be just “a musician among many others”.

By his art. he will have discovered the invisible link that brings together everything : Love, child of madness, alone able to survive the test of time and to unite those that death separates. “It’s crazy when you love, death never existed.”

Hi Fiori, thank you for loved us to madness.

1. In this text. the quotes are all taken from songs written by Serge Fiori and Harmonium (Come dance, The first sky, Sage, For a moment, Yes ok, Black song, From bedroom to living room, It feels good, In full face, It feels good, The world is virtual, The corridor).

2. To discover: tribute serge fiori | he the parts Young girl et Humanity (Trans-Canada, 1968)

2. Listen to the song Young girl What do you think? Take part in the dialogue