RENTRER AU PORT

Description

That's the mystery of Mano Solo: for fifteen years now, come what may, he has been making more or less the same album. His fiery voice swings with almost metronomic regularity between rage and appeasement; his music is tinged with ardent tangos, swinging waltzes, and gypsy melodies; his lyrics wander through the backdrop of rather friendly cities, where the suburbs have dethroned Paris. And each time, he breathes so much intensity into his singing that he manages to sweep us away. This eighth studio album, raw and wrenching, filled with the warm sounds of Régis Gizavo's accordion, still delivers its emotional uppercuts. When he softly sings about other people's children, or love renewed in the morning, he is simply disarming. Moreover, one thing has changed in his words, and not a minor one: in 1993, he exclaimed "life is not a piece of cake"; today, he sets the record straight: "I pity all those who believe that my life is not a gift." - TELERAMA