He has never played sharks and continues to live his life as a Friday deprived of his Robinson. He is Philippe Lavil, the interpreter of Il taps sur des bambous, who by dint of joyful and elegant dilettantism, now happily displays 75 springs on the clock. And as time has almost no hold on him, he has just released a new album, entitled as it should be for a child of Martinique, Under the same Sun.
This disc, a subtle mix of zouk, pop and Caribbean sounds is composed of beautiful covers reorchestrated by musicians Rodrigo Gonzales Miqueles, Marco Arraya Correa, Taofik Farah, Lionel Villars and Mathieu Borgne, and magnificent duets, a happy memory of Lavil since Kolé Séré with Jocelyne Béroard. We (re)discover the warm voices of Viktor Lazlo, Chloé Cassandre, Claudio Capéo and a new kid of the song, Lola Lavil, the saltimbanque's own daughter.
The original scopitone of Avec les filles je ne sais pas, with Mylène Demongeot, Carlos, Marcel Zanini and of course Philippe Lavil
Since With the girls I do not know where Philippe Lavil mocked his shyness in an immortal scopitone in which we recognized Carlos, Mylène Demongeot and the ineffable Marcel Zanini, the singer has never lost the habit of laughing at the things of life. Today as he is no longer twenty years old, it is his possible retirement that inspired him the anagram song Au pays des vermeils. The observation is severe: "I am told gently and a little tact that my prostate is to be checked but I do not want to go ..". But his wandering spirits forbid him to think about it because, he sings, "I don't care about your advice always wise. I don't really want to bar myself as long as my beautiful Alice wakes up near me in the land of vermeils.
»Au pays des vermeils sung by Philippe Lavil
The other side of Philippe Lavil's mirror is obviously the Pointe Camphre du François in the West Indies where he and his family lived their most beautiful memories. Ti Case, which he sings with his daughter Lola, tells their nostalgia. The words ring true. The emotion is on edge: "It is from this corner of paradise that for good I will want one day to raise the sails ..." Returning to Martinique with a guitar in hand to tap on bamboo, make his music is the real dream of Philippe Lavil. And the album Sous le Soleil gives us in the most beautiful way its most secret wish.
Ti Case sung by Philippe and Lola Lavil
Philippe Lavil sings Il tape sur des bambous, lyrics Didier Barbelivien, music Michel Héron