“Je n’avais pas encore fait ça, ça m’a amusée”: it’s also simple that ça pour Nathalie Baye, actress who sings désormais on the album by The Penelopes, électro-pop signed by a duo français exiled in London.
The song sung in English is called “Life is long” and gives its name to an album that will be released this Friday.
It is a crazy bet carried out, that of this tandem of singers surrounded by a cast of four-star actresses. Thus we find pieces with Isabelle Adjani, Asia Argento, Virginie Ledoyen and Lola Bessis (seen in Mr. and Mrs. Adelmanby Nicolás Bedos, among others).
Singles with Isabelle Adjani (meet me at the gates, The last good-bye), Asia Argento (dream baby, dream) and Virginie Ledoyen (Affliction) have already been released in the last three years, the health crisis has postponed the release of the album.
The piece with Nathalie Baye is presented this Friday. If music is familiar terrain for Isabelle Adjani -we remember in particular navy blue jumperhit co-written with Serge Gainsbourg- the actress of The equilibrium I had never sung on an album.
“Two Very Funny Guys”
Good memories will recall appearances from forays, such as his calm voice for Les Enfoirés, a duet for a television show with Sylvie Vartan, or even a sung passage in the movie. A life waiting for you.
Of course, it is she who whispers the introduction of something from tennessee of Johnny Hallyday, whose life he shared. But with Las Penélopes, the actress from beauty venus he really sings on this melancholic title, along with the gravelly voice of Axel Basquiat. The other half of the couple is Vincent Tremel.
“It was Vincent and Axel who tamed me, they are still two very funny guys, that makes things easier,” the movie star, nervously contacted by the tandem, told AFP. “I’m not a suspicious person, it’s almost animal in me, whether I like it or not, my instincts have fooled me a few times in my life, but not much in my work,” she continues, sitting between the two musicians.
“During our first meeting, you asked us questions for 45 minutes about England before saying ‘yes, let’s record this song,'” recalls Vincent, addressing the actress.
“You had never sung on a record, we were a bit crazy to offer that, and when you said ‘yes’, I was blown away, we were so happy,” continues Axel.
“I won’t let them go”
Between the septuagenarian and the thirty-year-old, laughter and jokes merge. This complicity made the recording session go smoothly. “It marked me a lot, you had no apprehension in front of the microphone, while it intimidates me,” recalls Vincent.
the letter of life is long (“Life is long”) refers to a stage of adolescence, when prospects are slow to emerge. A theme that resonates with the three artists.
“We grew up and we met Axel in Stains, the northern suburbs of Paris. It was gray and culturally there wasn’t much. Paris was so close and so far at the same time,” unfolds Vincent.
“My parents did not get along, the best gift they gave me was to set me free; I went to the USA at the age of 18, as a babysitter in a family, I danced at the same time, it made me feel good”, confesses the actress of “La noche americana”. “The lyrics are quite dark, but when Nathalie arrives and sings, there is a little light at the end of the tunnel”, breathes Axel. In the clip, a ballerina is also shrunk, a child, before evolving into an infinite, adult beach.
And if the duo The Penelopes give a concert in Paris, will we see Nathalie Baye behind a microphone on stage for this piece? “I won’t let them go, I’ve grown fond of these little ones,” she says, under her delighted gazes.
Source: BFM TV
