Singers, with well-established careers, who record an album together, there are few in the national heritage. By publishing, Friday, September 16, their EP Short-lived, Grand Corps Malade, Ben Mazué and Gaël Faye try their hand at it brilliantly and mischievously. In all modesty, Fabien Marsaud, known as “Grand Corps Malade”, acknowledges that it is difficult to find a similar example: “I remember Fredericks Goldman Jones and I have in mind the photo of Brassens, Brel and Ferré, but it was for a post-May 68 interview and we are in no way comparable. »
Indeed, there have been great authors who have worked for others (Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Berger, Benjamin Biolay…), performers who have recorded pieces together for a show or for charity. This gave great television moments (the shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier). Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell and Jacques Dutronc went on stage for their show The Old Scoundrels. Boris Vian, Jacques Canetti, Michel Legrand and Henri Salvador found themselves in the studio to record several tracks that parodied nascent rock. No parody here, but seven new songs, created in a Provençal studio, La Fabrique, in April.
Grand Corps Malade and Gaël Faye have known each other for eighteen years, since their first slam scenes in a small restaurant on the rue des Dames, in Paris, where they declaimed their texts a cappella. Ben Mazué met the first at a small festival in a ski resort in 2013. The singer also works with the same musician as Gaël Faye, Guillaume Poncelet.
The three artists have the idea of meeting during the second confinement of the fall of 2020. Their concerts have been canceled and they find themselves incognito chatting casually around a coffee, near the Place de la République. They understand then that they have the same passion for the rap records of the 1990s, including Back to the Pyramids (1997), of the X Men, talk about their daily life as fathers to balance with their life as an artist, their commitments, their life: “The first times we saw each otherrecalls Ben Mazue, we had a lot to talk about. I immediately felt very good. And that is a good breeding ground for wanting to write and moreover songs. »
Gaël Faye, rapper and writer: “What brings us together is our writing of confidence. There is in us this tendency to biography, in hollow”
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