VIE ETRANGE

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“It wasn't planned, but what was this year? After releasing two albums in 2018, "Toute latitude" and "La fragilité," and touring for a year, I had imposed on myself a supposedly long period of self-isolation to recharge my creative batteries. Along the way, due to the virus, a generalized self-isolation was decreed in March 2020. Self-isolation on top of self-isolation, it was starting to be a lot… As a backlash, I re-emerged from the woods, well beyond the then-regulated kilometer, via digital channels, with a cover of a band dear to my heart, "L'éclaircie" by Marc Seberg, a song whose message exhorting patience seemed appropriate to the circumstances. This cover having been well received, I followed up with an EP, "Le silence ou tout comme," four electronic tracks composed and recorded on the fly, and sung with a hushed voice. The machine was launched, and then, how to stop it? The desire for a slightly less confined song (not a coincidence, we had meanwhile left our homes…), and for more melodic songs carried by guitars returned to me; I recorded and mixed a new series of tracks, in the same domestic conditions as the cover and the 4-track, and with lyrics that, as for the EP and contrary to my old habits, were written immediately to the music. I had the feeling of thus keeping a kind of musical logbook of the period, and of how I perceived it, without the songs systematically referring to it. All of this forming a whole, driven by the same method (improvising songs on simple melodic structures) and imbued with the uncertainties of the time. Hence these 10 tracks, "Vie étrange," whose desire to keep a tangible trace called for a physical release, even if in limited edition. Not a "new album," with the logistical upheaval that that would entail. But a record, yes.