Furious rage and disturbing onirism, raw emotion and surreal humour, intimate vertigo and jubilant energy… Few rock bands are able to release all these sensations, trapped as they are by too many codes, poses, self-awareness. So when the Trans Musicales audience holds a specimen like Astereotypie, they take advantage of it. Thursday, December 8, during the first of the three evenings that the festival programs on the vast site of the Parc-expo, in the suburbs of Rennes, the spectators gather in front of the stage of hall 3 welcoming this collective where musicians electrify the words of three singers (Stanislas Carmont, Yohann Goetzmann, Aurélien Lobjoit) and a singer (Claire Ottaway) with autism.
“I did not program them because they are autistic, but for the strength of the music and the texts”, assures Jean-Louis Brossard, co-founder of Les Trans and orchestrator of this 44e edition which, from December 7 to 11, is more than ever devoted to the International of emerging talents. And to add: “Their new album is one of the very best albums of the year. » Without even knowing the history of the group, No guy looks like Brad Pitt in Drôme (Air Rytmo), their second album, seizes indeed by its hypnotic force, its cathartic poetry, its radical truth, but also by the festive effectiveness of refrains strolling between dreams and nightmares. “I want, I have to, I want to be a pasha”, “Ponyo on the cliff/Ponyo on the cliff/We’re going to look for the devil/We’re going to look for the devil”, “Cycling in Saint-Malo/Kayaking in Saint -Briac”, thus resume in chorus the Rennais fans.
“The more it goes, the less those who like Astereotypie refer to a “group formed for medico-educational reasons”, rejoices Christophe L’Huillier, guitarist composer and founder of the collective. It is less a question of health than of culture. » However, it was at the medico-educational institute of Bourg-la-Reine (Hauts-de-Seine) that this project was born in the early 2010s. Then an educator, L’Huillier, born in Brest (Finistère) thirty-nine years ago, organizes poetry workshops for young people with autism. “I thought I would teach them things, but I was swept away by the originality and power of the texts they offered me,” remembers the Brestois.
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Also a musician, the educator first chooses to accompany these texts with background music, for narrations in slam mode. An invitation to perform, in 2015, at the Sonic Protest festival, in the Parisian hall of the Centquatre, will change the profile of Astereotypie. “I understood, on stage, that their texts and their charisma would be increased tenfold by more electric music”, explains this fan of punk furia, convinced that hardcore rock and art brut can become synonymous.
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