UN NID (vinyl)

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THE 12TH ALBUM BY Marcel Kanche! WITH Virginie DESPENTES & Bertrand BELIN. “The underground Bashung has made his best album.” --- Les InRocks --- Far from the noise and fury, Marcel Kanche! City lights, the blogosphere, artificial intelligence, tweets — very little for the poet-singer. Feet on the ground, the singer-songwriter explores his world, letting time take its time. “We always dig the same furrow,” he confides in this Protestant presbytery in Poitou, in the heart of the Mellois region, restored with his wife, Isabelle, who is at the heart “Living and seeing men, the heart must either break or bronze,” wrote Chamfort. With this twelfth album under his own name, Marcel Kanche continues this journey into the heart of men and nature. A kind of journey to the end of the night where dawn begins to show.“It is already too much to say that he is discreet. And too little to write that he proves essential.” --- LIBÉRATION ---. “And then the multi-instrumentalist that he is continued composing at home, in the former Protestant presbytery of La Mothe-Saint-Héray that he has renovated since buying it in 2014. Until he ended up with fifteen tracks in all, relying on local musicians who are also, at times, his usual companions: the drummer from Créchois Fabrice Favriou, who sent him digital tracks, the cellist from Mellois Grégoire Korniluk, or even the Poitevin Fabrice Barré for ‘a few clarinets’... Isabelle Lemaitre-Kanche, his ‘favorite backing singer’ as well as his wife and the founder of the mothaise association with a cultural vocation La Petite orangerie, is also part of it. As is bassist Jules Bikoko, another regular. Without a deadline, Marcel Kanche, notably raised on the works of Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Tom Waits or the group Suicide, took his time, ‘almost five years’ in the end, nurturing his songs before making choices: perhaps ‘I am more demanding’. Already, like Notes à La Mothe, which drew more than 400 music lovers to its three concerts in 2023 with Axel Bauer as the headliner, ‘I do everything in an artisanal way, by ear,’ smiles the man to whom we owe the songs Qui de nous deux, for Matthieu Chedid aka -M-, and Divine idylle, for Vanessa Paradis. I always start from the lyrics, the words inducing their own melodies.” Despentes, Belin, Veneau. On this latest release, most of the writing is his. Still, the sixty-something artist took up a text drawn from Virginie Despentes’ trilogy, Vernon Subutex, while Bertrand Belin, programmed at Notes à La Mothe during the 2021 edition, “gave” him one that had to be made his own: enough to, for a time, “throw him off balance.”” --- LA NOUVELLE RÉPUBLIQUE ---.