Phoenix album designed at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, shows at the Louvre for Feu!
Chatterton, concerts and musical visits by Albin de la Simone to Orsay.
As he started working last summer on his album,
The Next Hundred Years
, Orsay contacted Albin de la Simone.
“
The museum offered me to be their guest of honor, which I found quite classy for the Manet/Degas exhibition
(until July 23),
asking me to think about what we could do “
Relates the singer-songwriter to
AFP
.
Diving into the future exhibition via the catalog “
influenced the tone of the album, perhaps in the overall coherence
” he agrees.
Not to mention a title,
inspired by two works,
Dans un café
, also known as
L'absinthe
, by Degas, and
La Prune
, by Manet.
"
I kept coming back to
La Prune
and
L'absinthe
, two portraits of women, women who intrigued me a lot, I wondered why they were so melancholic
", unfolds the musician.
Albin de la Simone does not tell the subtext of the paintings in this song but was inspired by the gaze of the protagonists to imagine another story, "
of illegal, clandestine abortion
".
By seeking to
“be explicit without pronouncing a word from the lexical field of this subject
”.
Read alsoThe apotheosis of Albin de la Simone at the Philharmonie, in Paris
The Next Hundred Years
was released in early March and Albin de la Simone defended it on stage for three evenings in early April in the Orsay auditorium.
Two musical visits, on May 15 and 22, for a small group of visitors, will allow him to link music and works that he chooses.
Experience that this former plastic arts student had already carried out at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Albin de la Simone and his guests will also have carte blanche on June 29 for a nocturne, with concerts on the catwalk under the big clock in the heart of the collections at Orsay.
"
Orsay's desire is to make the museum a living place, not just a place for the conservation of works, any artist can appropriate the works either through music, dance or any other discipline.
“, explains to AFP Antonine Fulla, director of cultural programming.
Far from a frozen museum
"
Painters, poets, sculptors or musicians, they were some three hundred artists to know the privilege of being able to live in the Louvre to create there: two centuries later, the museum brings this history to life", writes for its part the Louvre in its argument
. around Fire!
Chatterton.
The literate rock band settled down "for a two-month residency", with a studio set up for them.
This installation will be enlivened by “nomadic concerts with guests” (like electro artist Arnaud Rebotini) during Friday nights in April, a master class in May and a residency outing with three concerts at the end of May.
The Phoenix group had published
Alpha Zulu
at the end of 2022 , an album concocted in the midst of a health crisis at the Museum of Decorative Arts, in a wing of the Louvre Palace in Paris.
"
Each record, we want to do it in a new place and by a crazy coincidence an old friend became director of this museum and she was looking to do artist residencies, the dream came true", had confided to
the AFP Laurent Brancowitz, one of Phoenix's guitarists.
“ What
I
found most inspiring was that our studio was also used to store objects, works, like at the end of
Raiders
of the Lost Ark
, it was alive, far from a frozen museum”
, remembered the singer Thomas Mars.
"It's similar to our way of making music, with samples that range from Monteverdi (Italian composer of the 16th/17th centuries) to the latest thing out of software," he
delivered.
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