Pense-Bête

Description

Lyon's most notorious pet-sitter, Oster Lapwass, offers a tailor-made stroll to the eminent residents of his equally famous Animalerie. The Lyon collective - a major player on the independent French rap scene and a local headliner since the late 2000s - is gathered here (almost in full) to honor the increasingly eclectic productions of its founder and sound architect. The crew's openly unconscious rapper, EddyWoogy (formerly Dico then Eddy), drags his psychotropic blues on "La Vache". The very prolific Lucio Bukowski features on three tracks of the project. On "22 Outils", he proves his contemporaneity on a lunar and refined instrumental, where his poetic and sharp writing marries a subtle vocoded flow, to which the man considered one of the great lyricists of current French rap had rarely accustomed us. After several months of silence, "Confortable" and its theme steeped in real-life experience mark the big return of the bad boy Anton Serra, who proves here that he has lost none of his unique verve. The raw and unvarnished Robse demonstrates his technicality and his uncompromising way with words on "Coeur d'Artichaut", and "Colson", in a more freestyle format. The four aforementioned MCs blend their respective worlds on the title track "Pense-Bête", an exercise in style characteristic of l'Animalerie. The second member of Bavoog Avers present on the project (with Eddy), Kalan, evokes his feelings as a "Rockstar". The indomitable Ethor Skull and Hakan reassert, on "Mon Rap" for the former and "Cigales et Fourmis" for the latter, their status as discreet but solid pillars of the collective. Oster Lapwass also invites other wild dogs: the young Lyon hopeful Elka on "Ghost", the dark Azz - recently seen in a Daymolition freestyle - on "Jaquen H'ghar", and the mysterious Ardèche native Mounir. Among the 16 tracks of this family project, two instrumentals: Oster Lapwass shares the machines with Francis Husler on "Lyonnaiseries" and serves us a "Rhum, Coca et Cacahuètes" at the very end of the stroll, supported by Animalerie's resident guitarist, Baptiste. "We go in all directions, nothing works, here everyone has their chance, cats are bald and sheep are well kept, it's a bit like an Opinel playing the clarinet..." OSTER LAPWASS