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C​’​est L​’​extase (for Baya Mahieddine)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Baya Mahieddine (Morocco, 1931-1998).

Born in Algeria, Baya (who chose to be known by her first name) was orphaned at age five, and was encouraged to pursue art by her adoptive mother. She was entirely self-taught. By age sixteen she had her first exhibition, at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1947, and was included by André Breton in the Second Surrealist Exhibition that same year. She has often been treated as a muse of Georges Braque, of Pablo Picasso (with whom she collaborated on pottery), and of Breton, all of whom admired her art, but more recently she’s begun to receive the recognition she ought to have had all along, as a major artist to be assessed on her own terms, full stop. Her first U.S. show was in 2018, twenty years after her death.

This track isn’t named after one of her works, but after the interplay between her paintings and her life. Baya created art that is insistently joyous, and when asked about it said that this was an intentional counterbalance to the unhappiness in her life. This dialogue is represented in the song, which is musically upbeat, but in which a woman asks herself doubtfully “This is extasy?” She answers her own question. “This is extasy,” she says, but her tone undercuts her words.

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C’est l’extase?
C’est l’extase.

Cette âme
En flammes.
Et ma raison
Chante ma chanson..

C’est l’extase?
C’est l’extase.
C’est l’extase.

Translation: This is Ecstasy

This is ecstasy?
This is ecstasy.

This soul
In flames.
And my reason
Sings my song.

This is ecstasy?
This is ecstasy.
This is ecstasy.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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Nas Hedron Toronto, Ontario

“An artist who gives a fresh new and startling meaning to the word interdisciplinary.”
-- Donald Brackett, author of "Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece" and "Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos."

Nas Hedron divides his time between his native Canada and Brazil. ... more

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