Coronavirus: the mobilization of musicians

DJ sets on networks, online documentaries, virtual festivals, song rights paid to caregivers: musicians play on the whole range of possibilities to forge links in time of confinement.

How to be useful in a pandemic when you are a singer? Calogero composed a piece, We pretend , put on the platforms this Thursday, whose revenues will go to the Paris Hospitals Foundation - Hospitals of France, for the benefit of "heroes" in "front line in the battle against the coronavirus" .

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And when you are not a star of this caliber? " I give what I can give, it's music, I'm a acrobat, " exposes Dombrance to AFP.

The electro artist tries to infuse " a little happiness in this misfortune " with his dancing machine songs where the only words are names of politicians like François Fillon, Philippe Poutou, Christiane Taubira ...

This Vercingétorix-style mustache posted on Facebook a live show between techno loops and disco swing, from his kitchen, seen more than 130,000 times. We even see her little daughter and that of her sister, the two couples with children being confined together.

" We weren't going to tell them not to come (laughs), that's life in confinement ." Among the returns, these " hospital staff " thanking him touched him. Repeat this Friday, with surnames of leaders from Mexico, where he was recently on tour.

" To be creative is to be alive "

The musical offers are legion. Neil Hannon, brain of The Divine Comedy, started a guitar tutorial on Facebook. Keren Ann performs on Instragram and reads a message - addressed by an Internet user to someone else - among all those received at the address built for this purpose "daysofconfinement2020@gmail.com".

Arnaud Rebotini, electro-pyrotechnician, launched his “ This is quarantine ” project on his Youtube channel with clips produced by Ina (National Audiovisual Institute). The Liminanas, rock sharpshooters, roll out deliciously retro large format podcasts on their networks.

The This is Quarantine project , Arnaud Rebotini

All these initiatives make “ that life wins every time, being creative is being alive, we create with constraint instead of undergoing it ”, analysis for AFP Yael Naim, who delivers inspired sessions on his Instagram account from his magnificent last album " Nightsongs ".

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To pool home-made concerts by different artists, several online festivals are emerging: Le Sofa with Alain Souchon or Barbara Carlotti, or #festivaljerestealamaison, soon on Facebook, with Malik Djoudi, nominated for Victoires de la Musique, or Sanseverino.

Read also: Confinement: with the Sofa Festival, live concerts from your sofa

" Talent chain "

The artist Taur oversees the creation of a song based on “ a talent chain ”, where each musician adds a layer, bass line, guitar, etc. Electro pop figures like Yuksek and the Naive New Beaters answered the call.

Baden Baden, a rare and demanding pop group, takes advantage of the long time of isolation to broadcast a free documentary, " Les vents opposires ". Director Teva Bourdin follows his first years there from the inside. Rehearsals are linked in a cellar, signature of a label, but also, more intimately, the refusal of a rock'n'roll life - the two thinking heads keep their work aside - or the isolation to write.

" It is moving to see these images, go back ten years, with a crescendo rise when the group finds its consistency ", confides to AFP Julien Lardé, one of the two leaders with Éric Javelle. Also touching to see " the ball in the belly " of the two men before going on stage, as Julien says, while the other members are more comfortable. An apprehension that they miss now that the concerts are postponed.

Finally, in anticipation of the end of confinement, the No Logo BZH festival (August 14-16 near Saint-Malo) offers 100 “ three-day passes ” to caregivers.