"
Timeless
", "
singularity
", "
elegance...
The new voices Aloïse Sauvage, Noé Preszow and Terrenoire evoke for AFP Dominique A, invited to revisit his repertoire on the occasion of the Hyper Weekend Festival of Radio France.
In 2022, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of
La Fossette
, the founding album of Dominique A, which unlocked French song and prompted so many singer-songwriters to launch themselves (starting with Miossec, another maverick).
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“La Fossette
is a shock. This album redraws the contours of French song so radically … When celebrating the 30th anniversary of the record, I wondered how the young generation looks and listens to Dominique A
”, tells AFP Didier Varrod, director music from the antennas of Radio France.
The Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (new name of the Maison de la Radio) has therefore invited emerging talents (Barbara Pravi, Clara Ysé, Crystal Murray, Silly Boy Blue, Terrier or even Tim Dup, in addition to those already mentioned) to appropriate the titles of the artist.
It will be one of the shows of Hyper Weekend, Radio France's first contemporary music festival (from Friday to Sunday).
“
Dominique A changed my life when I was 16, I know all of his repertoire at my fingertips,
” immediately admits the Belgian Noé Preszow, spotted in 2021 with his first album
À nous
.
"
Beside the Stream
"
To describe this figure in his pantheon, he quotes pell-mell his “
singularity
”, “
his view of the world
”, “
his righteousness
”.
Aloïse Sauvage, noticed with
Dévorantes
(her first album in 2020), salutes for her part a "
timeless
" side and an ability to touch "
other intimacies
" from a "
personal statement
".
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"
Elegance, class
" are the words that come to Théo Herrerias, of the duo Terrenoire, nominated for the Victoires de la musique in the revelation category, in the wake of a first album,
Les forces contraries
(2020).
His brother Raphaël, the other half of the group, speaks
of “an artist who enters people's lives with delicacy, who swims alongside the current
”.
Dominique A's “ unconventional
” recording methods
, notable in the minimalist production of
La Fossette
, resonated with Noé Preszow.
“
I had been tinkering with music in my bedroom since I was 13, and I said to myself
'we can make records like that!'”.
“
Between punk and poet
”
Before crossing to the other side of the barrier, the Belgian was an
assiduous
spectator
of Dominique A's
concerts
. hours.
I gave him a letter or, when he arrived, I greeted him and left
”.
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"
We had the chance to open for Dominique A at Pleyel
", recalls Raphaël Herrerias, who had discovered this artist "
during a performance between punk and poet
", in a late-night TV show when he was a kid. Before falling later “
in his words and his writing
”. “
We talk a lot about deconstruction today, Dominique A has always done it in her career. He never stopped questioning himself, ahead of his time
,” emphasizes Théo. "
There is no injunction to a powerful song, to virility, he accepts fragility in
La Fossette", rebounds Raphaël.
"
His way of declaiming allows you to cling to words
", underlines Aloïse Sauvage, who is also an actress (in
Placés
, recently released at the cinema, or in the series
Possessions
,
Stalk
or
H24
).
Listening to Dominique A brings the singer back to “
the basics, the importance of expressing yourself without embellishment
”.
