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The intimate and disarming pop of Fabio Viscogliosi

2021-03-07T09:04:30.127Z


Author of novels, comics and painter, the French artist of Italian origin has released Camera, his fourth album, a collection of dreamlike songs.


Sixteen months after

Rococo

,

Camera

was released at the end of February.

The two albums form a diptych of twenty tracks.

A trilingual collection (French, Italian, English) of stripped-down songs.

Fabio Viscogliosi, 56, navigates with the same talent from painting to comics (

Cascades, L'Association

), from novels (

Apologie du slow

) to music.

Since the 90s, he has nourished a protean and singular work, which leads him to sign the covers of his albums.

Camera

is the latest occurrence: a concentrate of tenderness and humanity, accessible but iconoclastic, testimony to an adolescent passion for free electrons (Robert Wyatt, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Lucio Battisti) from which he drew his vocation as a 'artist.

Complete musician (guitar, drums, keyboard, vocals), devoted to his art, Fabio Viscogliosi knows how to do a lot with little, in a humble grammar.

Songwriter

bordering on kitsch and good feelings, he takes over

Mio cure, which

he had written for Vanessa Paradis' last album, without however refraining from gently quirky instrumental tracks.

It is a question of balance.

Fabio Viscogliosi knows how to keep it intact when he invites a string quartet orchestrated by Fred Pallem (

Odyssey

and

Giorni dolci

), in the tradition of

Rococo

, his previous album, and his comrades, Mocke and Chevalrex, from the Objet Disques label.

These lovers of chamber music and curious pop have renewed the air of French song in recent years.

Read also: The strange musical epic of avant-garde Mocke

At Viscogliosi, this feat can also be explained by the Italian roots that he has always cultivated.

Half of

Camera's

titles

are sung in Italian

,

in a variation on the theme of lush sweetness.

Singer, he stretches the words nonchalantly;

multi-instrumentalist, he lets his round melodies hang around.

Fabio Viscogliosi is not a man in a hurry.

He slows down surf music in the title track

Camera

, lets glimpse his small movements under the slow ebb of the waves.

These short and melancholy forms turn on themselves in haunting simplicity.

If

Camera's

songs

were to embody a season, they would stick to a sweaty summer, where silhouettes clad in linen wander.

The complete artist wears tweed well, retro like his psychedelic keyboards (

Nebbia,

Monk

), chic like the donkey-headed alter ego that dresses all his album covers.

Source: lefigaro

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