L'Outrebleu

Description

“It's what I do that teaches me what I’m looking for…” These words by Pierre Soulages, an artist with an insatiable thirst for research and exploration who cultivated one of the finest paradoxes — seeking light in darkness — could have been signed by Frédéric Lo. A music lover never sated, a melodist, lyricist, producer, arranger, he has long since developed a gift for ubiquity and a certain talent for ending up where least expected. In 2004, he became the “resurrector” of Daniel Darc by releasing the admirable Crèvecœur with him, one of those records that never ages. Some twenty years later, Frédéric Lo teams up with Englishman Peter Doherty on the album The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime, an instant classic. It was during lockdown that Frédéric Lo began working on L'Outrebleu. A period during which Frédéric was forced to give up the frenzy that seems to have guided him forever. On L’Outrebleu, he took care of almost everything. Could it have been otherwise for a record that is perhaps its creator’s most intimate, a record in perfect balance between “sweet sadness and melancholic joy”? A solo record, certainly, but one that would never have seen the light of day without the alter ego François Delabrière, guitarist François Pioggio, singer Gaëlle Kerrien, former collaborator of Yann Tiersen, Robin Guthrie of the legendary Cocteau Twins, and Clément Ducol, composer of the fantastic soundtrack to Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez. A record that knows how to be seriously light and lightly serious, a record of melodies to whistle everywhere; a personal record and a universal record.