TOUTE LATITUDE

Description

2018 will be a two-sided year for Dominique A, who invites us to follow the two common threads of his career like a diptych. The first part, "Toute latitude", recorded with a band, gives pride of place to rock, electric, and electronic music. We will have to wait until October to discover the follow-up, "La fragilité", with its more acoustic and intimate melodies, recorded solo this time. These two sensibilities, which have been his DNA for 25 years, Dominique A will exploit on the road from March during two different tours which should find a first echo on April 14 and 15 at the Philharmonie de Paris, during an exceptional weekend dedicated to the artist. After 10 albums, the last of which, "Eleor" (2015) was superbly received, Dominique A reinvents himself once again. "Each new album is like an answer to the previous one: the claimed softness and smoothness of "Eleor" are thus answered by the energy and up-tempo side of "Toute latitude", which ventures into more electro and electric territories, with a denser production, more focused on details and effects." But the objective remains the same: to offer songs, if possible striking and melodic. With lyrics generally more explicit than in the past, as evidenced by titles like "Désert d'hiver", "Lorsque nous vivions ensemble" or "Se décentrer". Other tracks, in spoken-sung mode, are part of a more narrative vein, and favor a form of tension that grows crescendo, such as "Les deux côtés d'une ombre" and "Corps de ferme à l'abandon". To close, the more peaceful "Reflet", led by an acoustic guitar, creates a link with the album that will follow, "La fragilité". In addition, the visual universe of "Toute latitude" takes us on a true dreamlike journey, the result of a collaboration with the animation film director Sébastien Laudenbach, whose feature film "La jeune fille sans main" won the jury prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2016 and was nominated for the Césars in 2017. "Toute latitude" is already establishing itself as a new luminous work in the repertoire of one of the essential figures of French song.