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Le dormeur du val

by Nice Cold Nation

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This is the opening track of the new album...

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Le Dormeur du val

C’est un trou de verdure où chante une rivière,
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D’argent ; où le soleil, de la montagne fière,
Luit : c’est un petit val qui mousse de rayons.

Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue,
Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort ; il est étendu dans l’herbe, sous la nue,
Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumière pleut.

Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort. Souriant comme
Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme :
Nature, berce-le chaudement : il a froid.

Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine ;
Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine,
Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.

(Arthur Rimbaud, deuxième cahier de Douai, 1870)

The sleeper of the valley

It is a green hollow where a river sings,
Madly clinging to grass rags
Silver ; where the sun, from the proud mountain,
shines, it is a small valley foaming with rays.

A young soldier, mouth open, head bare,
And the neck bathed in fresh blue watercress,
Sleeps; he is lying in the grass, under the clouds,
Pale in his green bed where the light rains.

His feet in the gladioli, he sleeps. Smiling like
A sick child would smile, he takes a nap:
Nature, rock him warmly: he is cold.

Perfumes do not make his nostrils shiver;
He sleeps in the sun, his hand on his chest,
Calm. There are two red holes on the right side.

(Arthur Rimbaud, second notebook of Douai, 1870)

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released January 4, 2023
Lmaihd Studio

final mix and mastering: Demarcatio

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Nice Cold Nation is a Cold wave band. The themes approached are universal even if they come from the intimate and are constantly renewed (loneliness, our finitude, love, fear, the relationship to the world...).
NcN offers an introspective journey, attempting to perceive reality in its essence and its effects.
The main theme today is "give peace a chance"...NcN is born in 2014. ... more

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