The return of the Duke of Boulogne, the nostalgic poetry of Gaël Faye or the slap of originality of Mottron.
Discover our weekend playlist.
Disillusioned Booba
"Who is going to stop me? Could be 5G ”
.
After asserting the opposite in the 3G and 4G pieces, the Duke of Boulogne seems resigned to the new world.
First single from
ULTRA
, the rapper's next album,
5G
sounds like the swan song of a disillusioned artist, admitting to be almost overwhelmed by his time.
A strange confession from the man who held the helm of French rap for almost two decades.
If the most informed theorists predict that
ULTRA
will be his last album, Booba should not stray too far from the world of music.
The native of Hauts-de-Seine has indeed launched a new label, Piraterie Music, on which he signed rapper JSX.
NB
Marina Kaye, breath of fresh air
After a second half-hearted album, Marina Kaye came back strong three years later with
Twisted
.
The 22-year-old French singer rebounds brilliantly by signing with her powerful voice a surprising album, freed from its shackles.
If titles such as
The Whole 9
or
7 Billions
may seem familiar to fans from the beginning, the first part of the album experiments with new musicalities.
When
Twisted
and
Double Life
borrows from electro,
Blind Heart
is equipped with a beautiful electric guitar for a result at the gates of the country.
These risk-taking give this third album and its eleven tracks a breath of fresh air and the impression that the artist is thriving again in his art and in his life.
MF
Mottron, delicious paradox
With
Giants, the
32-year-old Frenchman released an enchanting first album.
The artist's melancholy voice is a perfect accompaniment to dreamlike electronic sounds.
The disc hosts nine titles that are both powerful and so sweet, catchy and so relaxing.
A pleasant paradoxical whole.
To top it off, actress Charlotte Le Bon came to direct the video for
Walk Away
.
“
From the first listen
,
I imagined a non-gendered creature, baroque and a bit threatening,
” she says
.
Little by little, a story has been woven around what has been called the Queen Mother, made up of dreams, quests and mirrors.
The whole thing, for me, is a cocktail of scattered inspirations, ranging from Velasquez to Agostino Arrivabene, to the cult film
The Reflecting Skin
by Philip Ridley
. "
The visual and sound experience is indeed there with Mottron, and we want more.
MF
Ben Mazué, alone in
Paradise
Last year, Ben Mazué went to live on Reunion Island for a few months, bringing his wife and children.
But the story goes wrong and it's parting.
“A love story that ends is not a failed love story.
I believed for a long time, because I am a child of fairy tales, that love stories were for life, ”he
explains despite everything.
If
The Ideal Woman
, his previous album, evoked love with ardor,
Paradis
is synonymous with rupture.
With his precise words that go straight to the heart, the one who describes himself as anxious combines imperfectly his new rhythmic life of
week A and week B
in a very touching duet with the actress Anaïde Rozam.
To listen urgently.
MS
Gaël Faye, worried poet
Second studio album for the author of
Petit Pays
.
As in most of his work, snippets of his Burundian childhood are evoked with nostalgia.
With Gaël Faye, writing is there to ward off forgetting, which - the texts betray him - is his obsession.
"
The passing years wither the flowers,
" he metaphorizes in
Respire
, a portrait of an era that was at the end of its rope.
In
Malicious Monday
, with a sense of sarcasm reminiscent of Stromae's, he mocks the unfulfilled quest for meaning of his generation, too quickly torn from his innocence.
Gaël Faye constantly oscillates between gravity and lightness, because despite the pangs of time passing, poetry at home always ends up winning.
Christiane Taubira therefore offered him her text
Alone and Vanquished,
in which the promise of an "
incandescent future
" is made.
ELG