THE CONCEPT AND THE UNSaid
20 years of writing, music and performance
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Suspend the gesture of affection
The title "En pensée" written and composed in 2008 by Christina Goh evokes the brutality of a situation where one must strive to no longer have the manifest gestures of love for the other:
- The parent victim of mental illness and who does not recognize you or no longer; - Exile when you are far from the codes of the country you love, when habits are totally out of phase in the host country. love "in thought" but we must move forward ...
To illustrate the song musically, in 2014, the artist asked bassist Bruno Ramos to illustrate it with his basses, the instrument with low frequencies reflecting the underlying but ardent feelings of the individual who is forced to neutralize them. between nostalgia (accordion) and the still beating heart (djembe).
The life of an independent artist
2015-2016, with the title "the minstrel" written by Peewaï, Christina Goh is in the pure interpretation. She is writing the screenplay for a short film that mixes extracts from live concerts and filming in the forest: a young musician who must perform a concert in a remote castle for a substantial fee, is forced to cross a haunted forest to achieve it. A journey from which he does not come out unscathed and which brings him back to the struggles that preceded him and that go beyond him.
"Wanting to change the world through art and to be overtaken by the demands of the reality on the ground ..."
In collaboration with the troupe Les Passeurs de Légendes, Christina Goh invites rock guitarist David Perraudin and percussionist Thomas Guéi, well-known virtuosos of the independent scene in France to illustrate the title.
This short film offers Christina Goh her first audience for a video with more than 100,000 unique visits in a few days on her social networks.
In 2011, the video for "Veiled Reason" appeared, a track taken from the Christina Goh Concept album. A more than simple script: the musicians arrive at Marc Lachin's filming studio in Ile de France to shoot the video, record it and leave. No frills, no attempt at glamor. The goal: to contrast with the quest for a truth that would be ultimate and impossible to grasp clearly by its human condition, the one evoked in the song co-written with Stéphane Traber.
Veiled reason
How to know everything, a life would not be enough ...
To be here and there, Difficult!
Go back in time to see ... See everything?
Knowing your private thoughts ... I can only feel ... Or listen to you.Who am I? I discover it every day ...
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And the reason would not be veiled?
Extract "Veiled Reason" - The concept in poems, book explaining the album Christina Goh Concept
"We would be better than that ... But hearts are so heavy with stories And all the mysteries of the world Unveiled, bring us back only to you and me"
Tribute to the timid and sensitive
With this title, Christina Goh addresses a particularly sensitive loved one or a romantic and gentle nature, in deep insecurity because he is ridiculed for what seems like a lack of assurance.
“You have to be honest, social contact can be unintentionally or not brutal. I sang this song as I speak to the person I love most in the world. It's my most intimate track. Here, djembe, piano and electric guitar are all in reserve and languid. Their power is nevertheless omnipresent through the roundness and the fusion of the whole, like the gentle which ignores the resource of its empathy. "
"Did you want to succeed? Be rich and shut up!"
In the song "The Price", Christina Goh tackles the thorny theme of hunger but from a rather unusual angle ... She evokes the absolute destitution and distress of a wealthy person. Situation ignored or mocked by all since the individual is financially prosperous, therefore according to the collective understanding, supposed to live without problems. The title illustrates the emotional intimacy and loneliness of a Madame de Beauséant (character in La Comédie Humaine de Balzac) of our time, tried and condemned for having wanted to publicly display her vulnerability.
This title will give its name to the show dedicated to ten Balzacian heroines deciphered in the era of the first civil code in France written and edited by Goh. Indeed the vocalist is passionate about the author's work.
Forgetting, dissociation and time
With "Forgetting" and "Invisible", Christina Goh illustrates from a particular and musical angle two psychological defense mechanisms.
- With "oblivion", realistic drum bèlè song - voice (with the percussionist Boris Reine-Adélaïde), Christina Goh underlines the complex respite that traumatic amnesia can allow to help the individual to get to safety before remember painful events.
- "Invisible" written in Creole featuring Mikka Grytviken illustrates dissociation according to psychiatrist Janet. The vocalist illustrates musically this defense mechanism which destroys the personality in the face of the trauma suffered to allow the victim's survival. The song in Creole, the catchy rhythm, underlines the refrain: "Lespoir ka dansé" (hope dance), as a thought for all those who live the paradox of dissociation on a daily basis.
Continue to love him even after his death
"Without time" or a song which evokes the feelings of the one who survives the death of the loved one.
Christina Goh traces the difficulty of grieving life when the past relationship was fulfilling. When the fact of having loved is enough without the individual necessarily feeling the need to forget everything about the other or the need to commit again.
"No one knew how painful I was. I had to learn a normal life.
If it's another world That our love probes it That it breaks down all the barriers That in your arms you hug me
Extract from the lyrics of the track "Sans temps"
Featuring the American guitarist Catherine Capozzi, the two artists illustrate the title in 2016 between France and the United States with an underlying dancing rhythm, a symbol of joy and tenderness, which they are not. dead. "Without time" will appear on the first collaborative work of the two artists: "Hors format - Oversize".
In 2013, Christina Goh surprised with the title "Bankruptcy" broadcast at the height of the summer.
A heavy blues which evokes without subtlety the state of bankruptcy, the isolation it arouses and its excesses. The video of the album "Fusion" will be shot in the garden of the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Tours in France and marks the musical turning point of the artist to assume his particular theme.
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