Nemir

Description

Nemir has a playful voice, a little rough around the edges. He grew up in the Saint-Jacques district of Perpignan, with its narrow streets and bright squares, among the Gypsies. “I’m a sunny person who hides darkness, an euphoric person who has his downswings, cycles.” The Perpignan native presents his first album, “neither in fatal drama, nor in absolute happiness. Just in life.” A striking young rapper, Nemir quickly found his place in an ecosystem that includes Youssoupha, whom he trades verses with on the album NGRTD, as well as Hamé, from La Rumeur, a proponent of very political rap, also from Perpignan like him, and then Nekfeu, who invites him on the album Feu (notably for the co-written track Princesse) and then on Cyborg. There was a before, with EPs (Next Level# 1, Next Level # 2, Ailleurs, Hors-Série) that followed the rules of rap to the letter, “but I had imposed disconcerting structures on them, so I wouldn’t get bored. Since then, I’ve thought about it.” With this first album, he shaped the bodywork of a racing machine, producing “an open, non-performative, simple and direct album.” And the result is good! He swears it in Sur ma vie, performed with Alpha Wann, former 1.9.9.5 and Don Dada Music. Nemir worked in symbiosis with composer En'zoo [Enzo Serra] of Italian origin, a collaborator of the pioneers of new French rap: Nekfeu, Spri Noir, Alpha Wann, Gro Mo, all present here. The artist added a Saint-Jacques touch by inviting Antoine “Tato” Garcia, guitarist from Tekameli, a Gypsy group from Perpignan that blended celebration and sacred songs. Nemir places rap at the heart of a soul spirit, because he has a passion for hip hop and soul, “D'Angelo, Michael Jackson, and all those head voices brought me lightness, and the obsession with the couple and with love.” Mixed in New York by Lionel ElSound, the album “NEMIR” was mastered by Dave Kutch (Alicia Keys, Puff Daddy...), “a childhood dream.”