"A letter written to the child that I was, promising him to return."
The evocation he makes of one of his songs can stick to the whole album of Noé Preszow, named among the revelations of the last Victoires de la musique.
The Belgian, not yet thirty, who signs a pop with jeweler texts, cites among his influences both Daft Punk and Gérard Manset.
He also says he went to Paris on the day of the national homage to Johnny.
But during the interview with AFP, it is the name of Renaud that will come up most often.
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Including when he talks about his odd jobs before full-time music, like spending time in Ireland to
"work the land and play music in pubs"
.
"
Molly Malone - Balade irlandaise
, by
Renaud
, they say it's her worst album, for me it's one of my favorites."
But if he likes the author of
Mistral winner so much
, it is because Noé Preszow (pronounced Préchof)
"
has
never been interested in adult singers"
.
“Renaud refrained from being melancholy for a long time.
He becomes what he becomes, free to himself.
I still love him so much.
Even when he talks about his divorce, he is still not an adult.
Higelin
, let's not talk about it, it's like Indochine, Louise Attaque, all these artists are not adults, they will not sit down in their office to make little songs, ”he
explains.
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"The cracks of childhood"
The theme of childhood - his own or that of others - therefore splashes his album
À nous
(released by Tôt ou Tard).
In
The Pond
, he imagines that this pocket of water is watching him.
What would she see?
“The same as when I was a kid, I'm still a kid, I'll stay that way.
The cracks of childhood are not going to change. ”
The bearded man ranks himself in the category of those that one does not notice in the evening, a little awkward, a little out of step.
He will undoubtedly recharge his batteries of confidence with the release of his record, in particular thanks to his nomination among the revelations of the Victories (category won by Hervé).
“I'm really happy with that.
This appointment is as if we were becoming obvious in the landscape:
"He is there"
.
I liked it."
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Musically in any case, he no longer has to look for himself.
"I found myself the time of the album"
, notes the artist.
He even knows how, with small impressionistic touches, to talk about his family environment, without saying too much.
Exils
thus evokes immigration through a father who speaks of his distant son.
He is then questioned on the question of the uprooted, of families shaken by the great upheavals of history, he whose family name has Polish roots and can be found from Moldavia to Greece.
"Born in demo"
“Undoubtedly, unconsciously, it's a way of talking about my grandparents. It was something that I had integrated, but by discussing with the oldest of my family, some were deprived of their parents. There is no mystery, it was during the war. Part of my family died, the others were separated. ”
Modest, he won't say more.
The Upside Down
is the only topical song that denounces police violence during a demonstration.
But here again, the family history resurfaces.
"I was born in a demonstration"
(laughs)
, my parents themselves were born in a demonstration "
(laughs).
I have always seen it up close, people "castagnés" for nothing at all.
I even had a rather unpleasant experience quite young.
We find here a protest dear to Renaud and a mishap that must have dissuaded him from growing up, once again.