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Rating: It's late at night. You're wandering the streets of a Central European city (say... Antwerp...), when, as you walk past the door of a small club with a sign that says Magnus live, you hear – muffled by the walls – deep beats, a very groovy bass, and then you can't resist: you cross that threshold and enter. The club is quite dark, the atmosphere dominated by chiaroscuro within which bodies move harmoniously to the rhythm of all the sounds that can make people dance in a club... Dance, electronica, funk, techno, and so on. You look for the guy with the headphones to see what instruments he's handling, and you find not just one but two; but one of them, the blond one, with the scruffy beard and an innocent face crossed by flashes of madness, you know that one! ...Tom Barman?!? What the heck is he doing there?!?
How many different souls does this guy have? The alternative one of dEUS (where he's also placed his heart), the director of Any Way The Wind Blows, the singer-songwriter of the live with Van Nueten, plus all the facets shown in various collaborations around Europe. But this other one (brand new: 2004) is truly unusual for an indie-rocker like him: an electro-dance soul!
Magnus is, in fact, a project where Tom collaborates with C.J. Bolland, someone with a techno DJ soul - and heart. The intention is to create something unusual, and with two musicians of almost opposite backgrounds (plus various other valuable contributions – like Peter Vermeersch, Mauro Pawlowski, Tim Vanhamel, Tomas De Smet), I’d like to see otherwise… this something, however, doesn't care about heart and soul: the music of Magnus is for the body. The Body Gave You Everything: the title says it all!
“Rhythm Is Deified”: Tom repeats it obsessively in the first track with his tone, surprisingly (but not too much) at ease even in these club atmospheres; self-confident or sweet, appropriately self-ironic. “Summer’s here” (also part of the soundtrack of the film directed by Barman, alongside “Assault On Magnus”), amidst the samples, reminds you that Tommy has a knack for melody, no doubt about it. Phenomenal “Soft Foot Shuffle”, a drum’n’bass track that tells you something else: what the body doesn’t remember / is what the soul has got in store for you / and when the soul finally surrenders / you’re gonna know it made your body move… “French movie” makes you realize how sophisticated it all is, and at the same time excites you, you can't resist, your head starts to move, your shoulders follow, even your body is swaying (and so is that dazzling woman with short hair and gentle features moving sinuously, she's the same one who emerges softly in the booklet and on the cover)... Don’t miss a single beat…
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Summer's Here (04:27)
Someone turned the light on, baby
Someone turned the light on
Someone turned the heat on, honey
Someone turned the heat on
Someone find a someone, baby
Someone to rely on
Someone turned the heat on, honey
The summer’s here
Early june
I will stay
It will bloom
If you say
What a life
In the shadow
What a life
In the shadow
Out of sight
Coming soon
There’s a light
Afternoon
Let the sun
Be your guide
Let it come
By your side
Someone take the cash out, baby
Someone take the cash out
Someone fix a drink now, honey
Someone fix a drink now
Someone find a someone baby
Together we'LL get lashed out
Someone fix a drink now honey
The summer’s here
Any way the wind blows
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
Early June I’m a cowboy
Early June I’m a cowboy
03 French Movies (03:57)
French Movies
Music: Barman/Bolland
Words: Barman
C'est des images quasiment sans son
C'est vraiment des images
C'est des couleurs,
c'est du noir, c'est du blanc
et c'est toute la gamme de gris
qui s�pare le noir et le blanc
C'est une certain lumi�re
qui tombe sur un certain profil de visage
C'est un ton, c'est un corps qui est dans un espace
Et c'est le sentiment que donne ce corps dans cet espace
C'est un film sur l'homme.
Don't wanna go where the picture is black
25 frames 26 back
I wanna talk like they do in movies
Only word that rhymes with groovy
There's a world there's a parallel thing
where only looks and charms are king
there's a place where it looks so easy
when we're talking 'bout boys who're teasing girls
There was a time it was a cultural thing
a contribution to American swing
wearing suits and moving so easy
yeah I'm talking 'bout boys who're pleasing girls
French movies
Il y a un dessin qui se forme
il y a une image qui prend corps
Je crois, je suis, je chante encore
Tu vis ta vie et tu t'en sors (4x)
Come on baby we can do it for fun
my movie only needs you and a gun
shooting rapid fire
Now take me higher
take your arriflex for french movie sex
There's a world there's a parallel thing
where only looks and charms are king
there's a place where it looks so easy
like I'm talking 'bout boys who're teasing girls, girls, girls
Il les regarde mais il ne les juge pas
je crois, je suis, je chante encore
tu vis ta vie et tu t'en sors
French movies
French movies
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