Au Revoir Simeon

Description

At the crossroads of pop song and rap, Swing is a young Belgian artist who rose to prominence in the mid-2010s with his hip-hop group "l'Or du commun." After two initial EPs and a duet with Angèle in 2020, Swing is set to release his first album at the end of this year. The project will feature 14 tracks, unveiled on December 1st, including two collaborations: Damso's protégé and rising star of Belgian rap, YG Pablo, and French rapper Prince Waly, already acclaimed by both media and public. In a modern world, always rushing, where the future is fantasized and the past regularly idealized, can a life still be lived in the present? This question with multiple solutions infiltrates every corner of Swing's first album. With "Au revoir Siméon," the Brussels rapper delivers a personal and uncompromising work. An introspective and highly addictive exercise, this recording offers a snapshot of the moment: an emotional panorama captured live, as close to the feelings as possible. After ten years with the collective L'Or du Commun, Swing asserts himself solo with this providential album. Faced with the passage of time, the artist measures the distance he has come and now sees new horizons. Recorded in spring 2022, with producer Crayon (Ichon, FKJ), "Au revoir Siméon" is an ode to resilience, an initiatory quest, and also a rite of passage. Supported by the talented Prince Waly ("Un seul ciel") and YG Pablo ("Reykjavik"), Swing dedicates his pen to audacious music. Between floating R'n'B ("2:22") and influences of house or minimal techno ("Mafia"), he outlines alternatives and invents other ways of singing. Launched as a trailblazer, the single "Maladresse" perfectly illustrates this paradigm shift. Built on the ruins of a dilapidated romance, Swing reconstructs himself here through a series of restorative songs. Like an echo of surrealism, "Magritte" appropriately revisits this unreal period. In fourteen tracks, filled with passion and authenticity, Swing overcomes his disillusionments with a renewed taste for the real, the true. Carpe diem. Such is the message suggested at the heart of a singular interlude: paternal advice delivered, without complacency, during a telephone conversation. In an era that dangerously oscillates between a hoped-for future and a recomposed past, intense nostalgia and utopian projections, Swing chooses to live in the present. His best life. Undoubtedly.