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Les Partisans du chant
Nevche (Shooting Stars
Michel Cloup (Diabologum)
Christian Olivier (Têtes Raides)
The Partisans du chant evening brings together musical artists who don't hold back and handle their native French language with ease and daring. It’s an invitation to fine or rough-hewn poetry, to questions without answers and to enthusiasm without illusions. In addition to lyrics, the 2016 edition will pride of place to guitars and will journey between the intimacy of diary entries and the migrations of humankind.
Nevche
After two highly personal albums and a remarkable effort in setting Prévert's poems to music, Nevché has, with his exacting, abrupt and romantic writing, blazed a sinuous and singular trail between rock, slam and popular song. Literary concert, musical reading or rock poem, Shooting Stars, his new creation, is a cross between the diaries of Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain. We hear about the artistic and feminine condition, addiction and injustice, success and suicide, but also Rimbaud, Artaud, Woolf, etc.
Michel Cloup Duo
With Diabologum and Expérience, Michel Cloup marked the underground history of French rock by always putting his finger where it hurts. His new formula is furiously effective. Steady drumming, saturated guitar and biting lyrics: nothing more is needed. Cloup's dense lyrics explore the paths of his own history and resonate with the times. Poetry and compositions without embellishment, seeking an us, a collective, like a barricade.
Christian Olivier
Profiting from a short break from Têtes Raides, the band's deep-voiced singer Christian Olivier leaves behind the accordion, straps on a guitar and takes up his pen, as sharp as ever, for a solo project, On/off, which is more electric and introspective, but as always anchored in and haunted by a world being torn to shreds. It’s an album written as a cry for life after the terrorist attacks, inviting us to reinvent democracy and to spend some time in a world without gods.