History, Embroidered by the Vanquished
Sylvaine sets the Bayeux Tapestry to music, panel by panel, in French, Latin, and the tongue of the conquered — baroque-pop, freakbeat, and sinister yé-yé stitched across eleven metres of linen. From Edward’s court to the arrow at Hastings to the spectral missing panel where the English break and run. Twenty tracks, two discs, one embroidered lie.
L’histoire est écrite par les vainqueurs. Elle est brodée par les vaincus.
Side A — L’Ambassade
Disc One · «Le Serment» — Harold rides out a duke and lands a hostage; an embassy that becomes a trap wearing a welcome.
Side B — Le Serment
The oath sworn on relics he cannot see, and the sea recrossed with freight that no one loaded.
Side C — L’Augure
Disc Two · «La Conquête» — a king dies, a king is crowned, a star burns overhead, and a fleet is spoken into being.
Side D — Hastings
The crossing that mattered, the feast that was a treaty, the arrow, and the needle stopping mid-stitch.
