Cap Blanc Nez (white promontory in English) is a town located on the Côte d'Opale, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais, in northern France. It is in fact a vast area overlooking the North Sea with white cliffs that Read more
Cap Blanc Nez (white promontory in English) is a town located on the Côte d'Opale, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais, in northern France. It is in fact a vast area overlooking the North Sea with white cliffs that are over 100 meters high that drop sheer to the sandy beaches. In particularly favorable weather conditions you can see the white cliffs of Dover in England, which are about forty kilometers from Cap Blanc Nez, very similar to the French cliffs. Together with Cap Gris-Nez it constitutes the so-called Site des deux Caps (site of the two promontories, in English). The surrounding landscape is particularly bucolic and I love the paths that run along the cliff. I got a very melancholic feeling from this place: it is the beauty of nature that ends sheer in the sea, leaving space for wide beaches when the tide retreats and for the water when it rises up to just below the precipice. This place is very reminiscent of a "finis terrae", perhaps more psychological than dictated by the territory. The rational and bucolic world of the French coasts ends abruptly in the North Sea, overlooking another world that instead seems like the perfect metaphor for the subconscious, which periodically re-emerges from its submerged world every time the tide retreats. The video is an animated representation not of the place itself, it does not want to be descriptive, but rather to express this particular perceptions. I have also visited other places that have given me similar sensations, such as Santa Maria di Leuca (in Puglia, IT), or Cabo Da Roca (the westernmost point of Europe). But Cap Blanc Nez is definitely the one where the keyboard ends and I write music to play the last note, the highest. Beyond that note, however wonderful, it is not possible to go. So listen to "Cap Blanc Nez" and tell me: what is the last note for you?
