Féfé returns with a third album in which he explores the full range of a sonic palette he has kept enriching ever since the days when he was working within the rap collective Saïan Super Crew. To his already shimmering array of soul, rock, Caribbean and French chanson influences, he adds an essential African touch, the result of an indispensable return to his roots. This is evident in this duet with Ayo, this “sister” of the Nigerian diaspora, on Naija (the nickname given to Nigeria by its people). In On est là he goes back to the roots of rap, to that mental gymnastics, that innate sense of virtuosic prosody that made him one of the master jugglers of Francophone hip hop. While in Avec toi he refers to chanson, often French chanson, crafting a marquetry of words from titles, snippets of text borrowed from his masters, from Rita Mitsouko (Marcia Baïla) to Jacques Brel (Ne me quitte pas), via Kery James, Fela, Stevie Wonder or Gainsbourg. Also worth noting are the contributions of Tété on A nouveau and -M- on the touching Le réveil. Conceived with the help of Chilean multi-instrumentalist Felipe Saldivia (Christophe Mae, Kendji Girac...), produced by Fred Savio (Soprano, Orelsan, Zaho...), Mauve is the complete album of a fully mature Féfé, the one in which he tells his story, his travels, where he shares his hopes, embracing all the colors of life, all the nuances of a music that resembles him, French in language, Afro-universal in rhythm.