DESCRIPTION:
DENNER video for the song "nouvelle-bretagne". Based on 1921's film "Manhatta", a collaboration between Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand.

"nouvelle-bretagne"
(adam humphreys / mike pate / gilles le guen)

from "Nouvelle-Bretagne" LP
recorded at Le Laboratoire Central, Brussels, by Gabriel Séverin

(self-release / nov 2010)


www.denner.bandcamp.com



Thank you to Dominique D & Jean-Luc G

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(fr. & engl. lyrics.gilles le guen)

En Marche sur un trottoir de la taille de l'Hudson!
En Marche dans des pensées de la force du Cyclone!

En Marche sur un trottoir de la taille de l'Hudson!
Renaître dans un pays far west!
Adopté en Nouvelle Bretagne!
Confronté mon identité
Libre des amers

En Marche sur un trottoir de la taille de l'Hudson!
Ni de blanc & noir, nul besoin d'oriflamme
Réinventer en Nouvelle Bretagne!
Rallier des anciens alliés
Retrouver des figures du passé

J'ai rencontré sur une terre étrangère
face à face à mes quêtes, à mon imaginaire
une nouvelle ère, une nouvelle terre
adoubé au bout d'un pier

"i came to America because i heard the streets were paved with gold. When i got here, i found out three things : first, the streets were not paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all; third, i was expected to pave them." (Ellis Island Museum, témoignage émigré européen)

En Marche sur un Trottoir de la Nouvelle Bretagne!!! Nouvelle Bretagne!!!

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On the March on a sidewalk the size of the Hudson!
On the March in my thoughts the strenght/speed of the Cyclone!

On the March on a sidewalk the size of the Hudson!
Reborn in a far west land!
Adopted in Nouvelle Bretagne!
Confront my identity
Freed from Brittany sea-marks

On the March on a sidewalk the size of the Hudson!
No "Gwen Ha Du*. There's no need for a flag
Re-inventing in Nouvelle Bretagne
Reunite former allies
Meeting up with figures from the past

I met on a foreign ground
face to face to my quest, my dream world...
a new era, a new land
knighted at the end of a pier

"i came to America because i heard the streets were paved with gold. When i got here, i found out three things : first, the streets were not paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all; third, i was expected to pave them." (Ellis Island Museum, european immigrant to the US story)

On the March on a sidewalk of Nouvelle Bretagne!!! New Brittany!!!

*gaelic name for Brittany flag