{"id":17481,"date":"2017-12-03T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/?p=17481"},"modified":"2017-12-08T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:41:12","slug":"gil-hockman-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/gil-hockman-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Hockman &#8211; Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2017 \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a010 titres \u2013 38&rsquo;06<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em><strong>Label :\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Autoprod<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Style\u00a0: <\/em><\/strong>Folk Futuriste<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Origine\u00a0: <\/em><\/strong>Afrique du Sud, Johannesbourg<br \/>\n<em><strong>Date de sortie de l&rsquo;album :<\/strong><\/em>\u00a010 novembre 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Notre avis : [star rating=\u00a0\u00bb3&Prime; max=\u00a0\u00bb5&Prime;]<br \/>\n[hr color=\u00a0\u00bbred\u00a0\u00bb]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Par Mike S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><em><strong>Pour le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent album, notre chronique commen\u00e7ait sur des lieux communs :\u00a0Gil Hockman, songwriter, est originaire de Johanesbourg, en Afrique du Sud. Mais il faut bien avouer que de situer le personnage dans son contexte socio-politique, apporte pas mal d&rsquo;indications au processus cr\u00e9atif de l&rsquo;artiste. Ajoutez \u00e0 cela que l&rsquo;artiste a partag\u00e9 sa vie entre son pays de naissance et Berlin sa ville d&rsquo;adoption pendant un temps. Qu&rsquo;il demeure autoproduit et ind\u00e9pendant. Et qu&rsquo;il a une id\u00e9e assez singuli\u00e8re de ce que la Folkmusic peut \u00eatre en 2017, quelque chose de plus moderne que celle de ses pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseurs, mais avec une m\u00eame m\u00e9lancolie dans les m\u00e9lodies ou un esprit\u00a0libre.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guitare Folk et \u00e9lectrique, <strong>Gil Hockman<\/strong> s&rsquo;autorise toujours l&rsquo;utilisation de boites \u00e0 rythme et sampler, que l&rsquo;on retrouve d\u00e8s le premier extrait de ce nouvel album,\u00a0<em>The Days of Our Lives<\/em>. Au rayon des arrangements\/orchestrations, l&rsquo;artiste int\u00e8gre d&rsquo;autres sons, tel un clavier hypnotique sur\u00a0<i>Top of The Hill<\/i> et apporte ainsi une couleur sepia \u00e0 sa musique, en corr\u00e9lation avec la couverture de l&rsquo;album, qu&rsquo;on d\u00e9couvre plus sombre et plus intrigante que le premier opus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2258359081\/size=small\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=e99708\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.gilhockman.com\/album\/becoming\">Becoming by Gil Hockman<\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malgr\u00e9\u00a0son format apparent tr\u00e8s classique de 10 chansons de 3 \u00e0 4 minutes chacune, Gil conserve un esprit libre, moderne qui propulse sa musique au del\u00e0 de l&rsquo;\u00e9tiquette Folk qu&rsquo;on lui a attach\u00e9 depuis son arriv\u00e9e sur la plan\u00e8te musique. Dans les textes, on retrouve aussi de ce classicisme comme sur la flower-power balade <em>Monday 7 September<\/em> ou la po\u00e9tique\u00a0<em>Top of the Hill<\/em>.\u00a0<em>The Days of Our Lives<\/em>, en introduction de l&rsquo;album, prend des airs d&rsquo;hymne \u00e0 la vie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ce nouvel album, Gil l&rsquo;a enregistr\u00e9 dans sa chambre, \u00e0 Johannesbourg, enrichie de toutes les exp\u00e9riences v\u00e9cues ces deux derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es pass\u00e9es \u00e0 Berlin et \u00e0 travers toute l&rsquo;Europe, au gr\u00e9 de ses dizaines de concerts de sa belle tourn\u00e9e. C&rsquo;est le cas sur ce \u00ab\u00a0roadmovie urbain\u00a0\u00bb qu&rsquo;est\u00a0<em>Talking to a Man<\/em>, montrant cette source in\u00e9puisable d&rsquo;inspiration. On prend ainsi plaisir \u00e0 profiter de cette libert\u00e9 et de cette vision positive, malgr\u00e9 tout. Venant d&rsquo;un artiste qui a grandit dans un pays aussi d\u00e9chir\u00e9 que l&rsquo;Afrique du Sud, cela n&rsquo;en est que plus fort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Tout simplement beau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilhockman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Site officiel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.gilhockman.com\/album\/becoming\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/fr-fr.facebook.com\/gilhockman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente chronique :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/?p=3138\" target=\"_blank\">Dolorous<\/a>\u00a0(2015)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\n[hr color=\u00a0\u00bbred\u00a0\u00bb]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Line-up :<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Gil Hockman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Tracklist :<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>1.\u00a0The Days of Our Lives 04:29<br \/>\n2.\u00a0Untitled 02:36<br \/>\n3.\u00a0Monday 7 September\u00a0 (feat Julian Repdath)04:13<br \/>\n4.\u00a0Talking to a Man 03:35<br \/>\n5.\u00a0Somewhere Else 04:14<br \/>\n6.\u00a0Top of the Hill 03:10<br \/>\n7.\u00a0Rope_ankle 03:09<br \/>\n8.\u00a0Coming In 03:30<br \/>\n9.\u00a0Dreaming 04:08<br \/>\n10\u00a0Scheming 05:02<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17481\" data-postid=\"17481\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17481 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 \u2013\u00a0\u00a010 titres \u2013 38&rsquo;06 Label :\u00a0Autoprod Style\u00a0: Folk Futuriste Origine\u00a0: Afrique du Sud, Johannesbourg Date de sortie de l&rsquo;album :\u00a010 novembre 2017 Notre avis : [star rating=\u00a0\u00bb3&Prime; max=\u00a0\u00bb5&Prime;] [hr color=\u00a0\u00bbred\u00a0\u00bb] Par Mike S. Pour le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent album, notre chronique commen\u00e7ait sur des lieux communs :\u00a0Gil Hockman, songwriter, est originaire de Johanesbourg, en Afrique du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[122,1553,1689,121,1688,1690],"class_list":["post-17481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albums-internationaux","tag-afrique-du-sud","tag-folk","tag-folk-futuriste","tag-gil-hockman","tag-johannesbourg","tag-julian-repdath","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}