Not one, but two albums in one. three years later the gold record saint clear and five years after the success of Grand Prizethe French singer-songwriter Benjamin Biolay premieres this Friday The blue diskthe eleventh work imagined between Paris, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro and, once again, divided into two parts.
The first, called “Les Résidents”, is more stripped down, raw, with strings, intimate and dark, more similar to their previous albums. The second, “Les Visiteurs”, is more playful, danceable, close to what he has composed in the past for other artists, such as Henri Salvador, Keren Ann or Françoise Hardy.
“I wanted to create two very different phases, one at night and one during the day, or one in autumn and one in summer,” explains the interested party into the BFMTV microphone. “It comes from the same brain, but they are two houses that have nothing to do with each other. In reality they are two rooms, two atmospheres.” And he specifies: “Before we made LPs where once the first phase was over we entered a different atmosphere, more instrumental, but the stream Then he made it all a bit uniform. So I wanted to return to that contrast, to that craft.”
“I’m afraid of what will happen in France”
The album, including the first single. just before falling was released last May, it also gives prominence to blue, to travel, to the sky, to the sea. “I just wanted the photos, the illustrations, the lyrics to be blue and that in the long run we would call it ‘the blue record,'” explains the 52-year-old singer.
The man was also greatly inspired by Georges Brassens, especially with the title Passersby. “There are many tributes and references [au chanteur] In the file, Benjamin Biolay approves. He was one of the pillars of French song, which ended up defining the contours of the genre, and for a long time. I find it more and more modern.”
In this new work, Benjamin Biolay appears calmer, singing of childhood, youth, contemplation, and the sun. He also wants to be political, emphasizing in particular correct thinking and the formatting of minds. “Politics, like music, is what makes us live, what makes us happy or unhappy,” he says. “That we still have political impulses is a good sign.”
But the Villefranche-sur-Saône native admits to being “afraid of what will happen in France.” Although he retains a little hope: “I hope that the coming to power of a fascist, crypto-fascist or very authoritarian party is not inevitable in France.” “The republican front must belong to everyone, it should not be the prerogative of people on the left, otherwise there is a real risk,” adds who considers the current political sequence “very embarrassing.”
Benjamin Biolay will soon begin his tour, also divided into two phases, an acoustic one, with six on stage, intended for theaters and small venues, and another electric, danceable one, for festivals and large venues, which will begin within a year. A way to recreate the flow of the seasons, autumn and then summer.
Source: BFM TV
