"Reality has not changed for 30 years, I am exhausted": Akhenaten's punch book

His speech didn't budge an iota.

The constancy of the subject and the virtuosity of the feather in standard, Akhenaton returns with a book which sounds like a cry of the heart and of revolt.

In 2006, with his sidekick Shurik'n, ​​the leader of IAM released a 10-minute track, “The end of their world”

streching the drifts of capitalist society

Almost 15 years later, Philippe Fragione (his real name) gave it a literary sequel with “La Faim de leur monde”, published by the Iconoclast.

In this collection of poetry, written without punctuation, its scathing record does not suffer from any nuance: “Reality has not changed for 30 years, I am exhausted. "And to add:" I have been telling the same thing for three decades and I sincerely ask myself the question:

There is a lot of talk about conspiracy at the moment, but I am

. "

For him, growing social inequalities, climate change… everything is intertwined.

And you have to wake up with a start.

“This book is a testimony, a photograph, because the hour is serious, connects the Marseille maestro.

We are living in a crisis of global civilization because everything is linked.

Human beings are at a crossroads.

Liberalism today is fanaticism and is taking turns more and more authoritarian.

The health crisis is only a revelation, a lifting of the veil on society.

People now understand that their health system has been sliced ​​up, sacrificed for 40 years ... Deaths due to neglect of care, it's been since 2014 and every year caregivers are in the streets ... "

" Another world is possible "

A reasoning that the artist also applies to the world of music, "where guys who come out of business schools have replaced artistic directors". "It is only the numbers that count in the world that they draw us", he insists, also highlighting the media. “They don't care if an article is well written, what matters is the clicks. You made a good album, who cares if it didn't make numbers. Danielle Mitterrand, this great woman told me: 1% of the arms budget covers the planet's water needs. There are things to do, let's wake up. "

But beware, Chill, one of his historical nicknames, does not want the label of "spokesperson". The father of the family also sees this book as an intimate and cathartic object. “I started to write the text in 2015 after the Nice attacks. When things are not right, I express myself by laying everything down on a sheet of paper because, in life, I am not a silent one. The day my mother left, I was in her hospital room and I continued this text, it was September 8, 2020. My mother was a Communist, Cégétiste, I had this heritage of commitment , even if I did not insert myself. She was a feminist, not the social media one, but at home, we shared the tasks. And today, social networks are not social. "

And to conclude: "I still believe in mixing genres, mixing people".

In real life.

Like a snub to say: "another world is possible".

EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5

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