Jazz Articles about Mersault

Mersault: Raymond & Marie

by John Eyles
November 5, 2007

Literary allusions from musicians are always intriguing and lead to speculation about their motives. Although Samuel Beckett and James Joyce are perennial musicians' favorites, Albert Camus is less often cited... although The Cure's “Killing an Arab lives long in the memory. If the group name Mersault could be taken as a reference to Camus, then the title of this album leaves no doubt, as it references two key characters from L'Etranger (1942). So, what conclusions should we draw from that? ...