L'Outrebleu

Description

"It is what I do that teaches me what I am looking for…" These words by Pierre Soulages, an artist with an unquenchable thirst for research and exploration who cultivated one of the most beautiful paradoxes - seeking light in darkness - could have been signed by Frédéric Lo. An insatiable music lover, melodist, lyricist, producer, and arranger, he has long developed a gift of ubiquity and a certain talent for finding himself where he is least expected. In 2004, he became the "resurrector" of Daniel Darc by releasing the admirable *Crèvecœur* with him, one of those timeless albums. Some twenty years later, Frédéric Lo created the album *The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime*, an instant classic, with the Englishman Peter Doherty. It was during lockdown that Frédéric Lo began working on *L'Outrebleu*. A period during which Frédéric was forced to abandon the frenzy that seems to have always guided him. On *L'Outrebleu*, he took care of almost everything. Could it have been otherwise for an album that is perhaps its author's most intimate work, an album in perfect balance between "gentle sadness and melancholic joy"? A solo album, certainly, but one that would not have seen the light of day without his alter-ego François Delabrière, guitarist François Pioggio, singer Gaëlle Kerrien, former collaborator of Yann Tiersen, Robin Guthrie of the legendary Cocteau Twins, and Clément Ducol, composer of the fantastic soundtrack for Jacques Audiard's *Emilia Perez*. An album that manages to be seriously light and lightly serious, an album of melodies to hum everywhere; a personal album and a universal album.