"L'eau qui coule dans la rivière" - récit musical de Rémi et Simon GUILLAUMEAU

On foot from the Morvan to the ocean. A journey inspired by a childhood dream, a vigil along the water.

It starts with a child's game, a little varnished wooden boat in the shape of a clog, a boat on the water. When I saw it disappear into the current along the Arroux, then the Loire, and all the way to the ocean, I swore that one day I would find that little drunken boat.

Just imagine: at the age of 70, you wake up and finally decide to make that childhood dream come true: to follow the river from the door of your house to the door of the Grand Large. On foot, with just a cart and a tent. A pilgrimage without god or master to Notre-Loire, the sweet dreams of childhood.

Eight hundred kilometres, forty days of solitude and unlikely encounters, in the company of the River, with a notebook in your pocket and the music of the water as a refrain.
Forty days to share later with friends: an evening story, a few photos, musical landscapes, a series of sound postcards, the old Indian, the fortune-teller, the man in a hurry, the hairdresser with the pigeon, a few lonely travellers, two fishermen before the eternal... the lights of the river, the colour of the gardens, the gentleness of Angers...

An hour and a half of storytelling, reading, singing and music.

Rémi, the father, has spent his whole life as assiduously pacing the roads and bookshops, bistros and libraries, shamelessly mixing the voice of storytellers with the pen of poets and the elbow of drinkers with the hand of musicians. In turn, he gives back what he has been given.

Simon, the son, accompanies this journey with music that flows with the water, with fluid, lilting touches on the instruments he has played since childhood, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, Jew's harp and other unusual sounds.

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