Traveling Music
Un road-trip littéraire et musical où Neil Peart, batteur légendaire de Rush, revisite sa vie à travers les chansons qui ont marqué son parcours.
Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along "between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right," he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods.
"Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected.? Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn't interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather ? in trying to unweave the fabric of my life and times. As one who was never much interested in looking back, because always too busy moving forward, I found that once I opened those doors to the past, I became fascinated with the times and their effect on me. The songs and the stories I had taken for granted suddenly had a resonance that had clearly echoed down the corridors of my entire life, and I felt a thrill of recognition, and the sense of a kind of adventure. A travel story, but not so much about places, but about music and memories."
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"Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected.? Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn't interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather ? in trying to unweave the fabric of my life and times. As one who was never much interested in looking back, because always too busy moving forward, I found that once I opened those doors to the past, I became fascinated with the times and their effect on me. The songs and the stories I had taken for granted suddenly had a resonance that had clearly echoed down the corridors of my entire life, and I felt a thrill of recognition, and the sense of a kind of adventure. A travel story, but not so much about places, but about music and memories."
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Ce livre offre une plongée unique dans l’esprit de Neil Peart, batteur et parolier de Rush, à travers un récit où musique et mémoire s’entremêlent. C’est une invitation à redécouvrir sa propre vie à travers les chansons qui l’ont accompagnée, et une réflexion sur l’art comme miroir de l’existence. L’écriture de Peart, à la fois poétique et accessible, en fait une lecture captivante pour les mélomanes et les amateurs de récits de voyage intérieur.
Traveling Music explore plusieurs thèmes centraux : la musique comme bande-son de la vie, le voyage physique et métaphorique, la quête de sens, et la manière dont les œuvres artistiques résonnent avec nos expériences personnelles. Neil Peart y mêle aussi des réflexions sur la création, la solitude, et la reconstruction après des épreuves.
Ce livre s’adresse aux fans de Neil Peart et de Rush, aux passionnés de musique et de récits autobiographiques, ainsi qu’à tous ceux qui s’intéressent aux liens entre art et existence. Son style accessible et son approche universelle en font aussi une lecture enrichissante pour quiconque aime les récits de voyage et d’introspection.
Vous pourrez interroger le smartbook sur les influences musicales de Neil Peart, les anecdotes liées à ses voyages, les thèmes récurrents dans ses écrits, ou encore sur la manière dont il relie ses expériences personnelles à des œuvres artistiques. Posez-lui aussi des questions sur l’écriture du livre, ses choix narratifs, ou sur la place de la musique dans sa vie.
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