2023-04-21 05:15:06
“My introductory course in figure skating not having been crowned with success, I gave up and returned to my main activity…” The evening begins under the best auspices since the singer puts the laughers on his side by ironically talking about the accidents of life. Dominique A found the Parisian Olympia for the third time, Wednesday April 19, and it is an understatement to say that he was chomping at the bit since the end of the confinements. Alas, he had to wait again: this concert scheduled for January was postponed, like other dates, after a fracture caused by a nasty fall on the ice in Nantes. “I’m upset, three months of latency, it doesn’t work for me at all”he warns, ready to do battle in the temple of the music hall, a French story in which he is part: by the ample and jerky gestures of the albatross, the black coat and a luminous sobriety, all in neon and colored squares.
Deprived of the stage like his peers, Dominique A has not been idle in the meantime: he has published his first collection of poems, The Impossible Present (2022, The Iconoclast), his seventh book all the same, slipped into the role of the storyteller of the Pierre and the Wolfde Prokofiev, performed three unreleased Serge Rezvani songs for the album Songs for Lula (Productions Jacques Canetti/Because) and offered in September 2022 a fifteenth studio disc, The real worldaugmented five months later with an eight-track mini-album, Reflections of the distant world. By confirming that, since his belated coronation at the Victoires de la Musique, in 2013, the one who grew up in the malaise of the cold wave swung to the light side of the song.
A quintet
A tropism undoubtedly facilitated by the voice, which defies the declining fatality in this profession: at 54, his has never been so full, lyrical, more and more sensual. Consequently, he no longer accompanies himself, only takes his electric guitar for the instrumental codas at times. The titles Last call of the forest et Disagreement of Elementswhich open his singing tour, reflect the place that environmental, if not eschatological, concerns have taken in recent years – “Wet petals, opal tint/Prodigies that we thought were vitrified/Which animal will close the ball/Will be the last to die? “.
This man of the stage and of the road, delighted to once again criss-cross the theaters and cultural centers of the country, four years after his previous tour, seemed to have exhausted all formulas, solo, in a group or with a wind and string orchestra, like genres, from folk to electro-pop. Yet he still manages to reinvent his art with musicians who will not be called accompanists: we are dealing with a quintet, whose spirit leaps towards improvised music. The upset skater nevertheless opted for a free figure program allowing him to rediscover some classics in new guise: Meaning (with her “counter philosophy from which we make songs”) on a rhythm of cha-cha, the Aragonian how some live (“Written when I was a bad guy”) , and Until you drop from exhaustion soaked in acid jazz or this Immortals offered to Alain Bashung, played foot to the floor.
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