FIERS ET TREMBLANTS (vinyl)

Description

A BRIDGE BETWEEN FRENCH SONG AND RAP. Here are two magnificent speakers/singers who will combine their words and scansion for a stage project at the intersection of a certain idea of song and reinvented hip-hop. It all began in 2010 at the Bataclan, Marc Nammour and Loïc Lantoine didn't know each other yet but crossed paths during a concert in support of the newspaper L'Humanité. After this memorable improvisation, they promised to take this impromptu meeting further. It happened eight years later and a few more albums under their belt at La Scène Nationale du Jura. Marc Nammour? An underground artist, a poet uttering liberating words, he founded the cult group La Canaille in Montreuil in 2005. A Franco-Lebanese exiled in the working-class Jura, a great admirer of Aimé Césaire and Léo Ferré's texts, an esthete eager for encounters of all kinds, he doesn't let himself be confined to any label and pursues a singular path in French hip hop. Loïc Lantoine? Poet, speaker, storyteller, slammer, singer, rocker, improviser, in the style of Ferré, Brel or Tom Waits, of "un-sung song," he is the founder of the group Mon Côté Punk and is currently touring with the 18 musicians of the Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra. The initiator of the project, Marc Nammour, retraces the thread of this beautiful collaboration: I have known Loïc Lantoine on record since his first album. His writing is one of the rare ones that moves me in French. We met once on stage where we mixed his song Mauvais ouvrier with my text L'usine at the Bataclan in support of the newspaper L'Humanité in 2010. After this memorable improvisation, we said to each other backstage that it would be good to work together again one day... So it will happen eight years later and a few more albums on our respective counts. Loïc Lantoine will cross his words with mine with the support of the three musicians of my group La Canaille. A musical atmosphere with urban sounds serving poetic words rooted in reality. Unpublished texts written together for the occasion that will echo what we are, what we refuse and especially what we aspire to. We share the same humanist values. Ordinary people are our everyday heroes. And if Loïc claims "un-sung song", what is rap if not also "un-sung song"? We look at the world from the same viewpoint, proud and trembling. Proud of our humble social origins, proud of the journey we have made, proud not to give in to stupidity or ease, proud to live with an open hand before a closed fist. And trembling because we are full of doubts and uncertainties. Because we are in constant search and have more questions than answers. Because we fully assume our ultra sensitivity, our vulnerability at a time when saying this passes for an admission of weakness. And we know that our society makes no room for the weak, it devours them. It wants us hard, strong, full of assurance with that winner's gaze. It loves the laughter of victors. Here we give glory to the losers! "An ambitious, unclassifiable, intimate album, of great musical richness and political acuity, all in subtlety." --- TÉLÉRAMA ---.