Recorded and mixed between Paris - Berlin - Brussels - New York. With Oli de Sat on production and Nicola Sirkis. Mixed by Shane Stoneback (Cults, Vampire Weekend). Out of 40 written tracks, only 13 + 3 bonus remain. And this time, no duets, as in the previous 3 albums, just Nicola and Oli on writing and Indochine. With Valérie Rouzeau's voice opening this Black City Parade, reading a text by Mireille Havet. For the first time, all tracks will be played and recorded live in Brussels and sung across cities and studios. For the first time, the group lets itself be filmed during these 14 months, from the first notes to the final mix. All lyrics are written by Nicola Sirkis with a contribution from Mathieu (Lescop) on "Trafic Girl", who had already co-written "Les Portes du Soir" in 2006 on the album "A&J". Then Tom Smith from the band "The Editors" offers a bonus to this album with a magnificent song "The Lover". "Black City Parade" will be built and written between agitated moments and instants, far away, in Tokyo, and then calmer ones near Bordeaux and then again in Berlin. This album is 14 months of stages, of inspiring cities: Paris / Brussels / Berlin / Tokyo / New York and others. Because in each city, by night or by day, it is the parade of the human comedy. There are the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, happy or sad people, the living and the undead, births and funerals, noise or silences, anger or joy, suffering and love, sex and counter-sex, homophobia and racism, art and monuments, religions and devils. All these feelings and moments of life, gathered over a few square kilometers, the city or cosmopolitan life. And then cities like Belfast will be added to describe the infidelity discovered by Sylvia Plath, "Wuppertal", directly inspired by the film "Les Rêves Dansants" and especially for Pina Bausch, then "Le Fond de l'air est rouge", about the Quebec red spring. "College boy" and homophobia in boarding schools or schools, and this new "Messiah" arriving in New York. The girls in blue uniforms in Pyongyang, North Korea, directing traffic that doesn't exist in "Trafic girl", "Memoria", the raw and incredible emotion it gives off, perhaps a historic track. And still the rest "Kill nico", "Nous demain", "Anyway", "Europane". Nicola confides in the film about his lyrics: "I don't tell stories, I just talk about my states of mind." States of mind that will touch people.
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