The Real Thing

Description

Gaspard Royant is finally back... from the future! He has seen it all: the future of soul and that of humanity. He has made an album, his fourth. He locked himself in the studio for two years, pushing all the sliders to the max to give body, sound, and soul to his vision. The result: a luxuriant album, superior to the sum of all its influences, which propels soul into the 22nd century. "I was promised colonies on Mars and I got Facebook!" This quote from astronaut Buzz Aldrin alone summarizes the spirit that blows through The Real Thing, Gaspard Royant's new album. The future has betrayed us. Obsolescence, solitude, algorithms... the radiant future looks more and more like a future farewell. The singer does not lament, he sees in the curse of human genius something devilishly romantic. The future may be lost, but it is not written. So, to work! Here are ten songs co-written with the English writer Stephen Clarke. The themes are universal, and yet Gaspard opens up like never before, recounting his fears, his flaws, and his hopes. Ten tracks that look the future straight in the eye to better tell the story of our time. Leaving the 60s behind him, he speeds through the following decades at the speed of a DeLorean. He directly tackles today's topics: masculinity in "M A N," choice in the age of algorithms on "The Real Thing," technological progress at the service of idleness with "To The Stars"... For the listener who saw him as a nostalgic fetishist of a bygone era, this new album will resemble a quantum leap. Gaspard Royant doesn't care. He likes to make his music travel through time. With The Real Thing, he takes it far, very far, ahead.