{"id":5928,"date":"2025-09-22T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:42:40","slug":"john-martyn-solid-air-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/john-martyn-solid-air-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"444. John Martyn, <i>Solid air<\/i>, 1973 | BV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/nijTlifbWtXO06sbpSJDODpAo3K2_u1KLlPJSACwYNw\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:90\/h:599\/w:600\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9SLTg3Njk5\/MjMtMTQ2ODQwOTA1\/MC05NjE3LmpwZWc.jpeg\" width=500 \/><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Solid air<\/em>, titre \u00e9ponyme et ouverture de l&rsquo;album, donne le ton : genre de <em>Woodstock<\/em> (Joni Mitchell) sous acide &#8212; mais l&rsquo;image n&rsquo;est pas bonne, Woodstock \u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 sous acide ; au bas-mot, c&rsquo;est au moins Woodstock h\u00e9ro\u00efne, mais c&rsquo;est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pire que \u00e7a ; ce n&rsquo;est pas une chanson sous effet de substances ; c&rsquo;est une chanson chant\u00e9e depuis la loge noire, depuis un univers parall\u00e8le (elle est \u00e9crite pour Nick Drake).<\/p>\n<p>Si plusieurs morceaux sont plus classiques (<em>Over the hill<\/em>, <em>Go down easy<\/em>, <em>Easy blues<\/em>) mais plaisants, ressortissant du folk so british de l&rsquo;\u00e9poque (on cite Michael Champman ou Fairport Convention), d&rsquo;autres, \u00e0 l&rsquo;image de <em>Solid air<\/em>,  sont v\u00e9ritablement plus risqu\u00e9s ou entreprenants (faisant appel \u00e0 une batterie, un rhodes, un saxophone) : entra\u00eenant <em>Don&rsquo;t want to know<\/em>, soucieux <em>Man in the station<\/em>, ou suicidesque (je parle du groupe), presque stonien, <em>I&rsquo;d rather be the devil<\/em>, petit chef d&rsquo;\u0153uvre du disque. Faisant de celui-ci une pierre angulaire de la chanson, triste et consacr\u00e9e, \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 tous les possibles se voient fig\u00e9s par l&rsquo;effroi. Et si tout cela n&rsquo;\u00e9tait que du vent ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7aC42u2dCM?si=JPhHIY1-bkKyuniQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Solid air, titre \u00e9ponyme et ouverture de l&rsquo;album, donne le ton : genre de Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) sous acide &#8212; mais l&rsquo;image n&rsquo;est pas bonne, Woodstock \u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 sous acide ; au bas-mot, c&rsquo;est au moins Woodstock h\u00e9ro\u00efne, mais c&rsquo;est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pire que \u00e7a ; ce n&rsquo;est pas une chanson sous effet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,604],"tags":[813,654,814,815],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chroniques","category-disque-sur-disque","tag-faiport-convention","tag-nick-drake","tag-suicide","tag-the-rolling-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hors-sol.net\/revue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}