LA SOUTERRAINE - Vol 9 (vinyl)

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the archaeology of the future of Francophone music The image of French-language song is old-fashioned, almost monolithic; it is hard to imagine everything that lies beneath: the minorities, the outsiders, the “cursed artists,” those who draw the margins of song, those cracked souls who let the light through: Francophone underground pop, in short. Injecting a little pop under the ground and budding, or crawling along happily. The underground world is atomized: there are local music scenes, defined by geographical boundaries, and then there are stylistic scenes, all these nebulas remain impermeable to one another, or almost. So here is the joyful claim of an invisible community of enthusiasts, in the noblest sense of the term, which tends to create curiosity, unexpected connections, surprise, beyond the usual cliques and the caution felt just about everywhere in most media, among more and more concert programmers... This anthology has the ambition of a real-time study of the underground Francophone activity of our time, via Metz, Toulouse, Valence or Montferrand, Montréal, Brussels, Bordeaux or Haute-Loire. The exploration of side roads rather than the main current, an ode to self-production and taking a step aside. It is also a possible framework for the archaeology of the future of Francophone music. That is the starting point of our underground network in constant motion. In his alphabet book, Deleuze said the majority is no one, the minority is everyone. La Souterraine is the minority and it is everyone. Benjamin Caschera