What triggered the creation of the record: a word, an image, a striking situation?
Patrick Flowers Many friends confided to me that they had stopped dancing, singing, fishing, doing what they loved, “because… life, what!” » I said to myself: “No, you don’t have to give up your passions. Never. » This gave this song, The singing is free, then this album. Behind the formula and the play on words, there is this great and beautiful idea of freedom.
This means that nothing much is hindering you today…
Exactly. I allow myself things that I wouldn’t have dared before. For example, I recorded the title It all starts today, which is what we call urban symphonic musician jargon. We hear a classic tune by Gabriel Fauré (Pavane, op. 50, editor’s note), which was stuck in my head and to which I do a slam and sing in opera style. The rap group IAM had proposed something quite close. I loved doing that. This is an direction that I want to explore.
How was the connection made with the singer Ycare, with whom you not only co-wrote but also co-composed six tracks on the album?
I discovered the man fifteen years ago, thanks to an association. I got to know the artist. He had already written me the text of Your beautiful story on my previous album, a song which talks about my Armenian origins, which I couldn’t get rid of. This time, he invited me to Paris, to his apartment. We made ourselves a plate of pasta, and we started working together very fluidly. I have only experienced this kind of intimate and complicit collaboration twice in my life: with him and… Jean-Jacques Goldman, who also cooks pasta very well! (Laughs)
The interview with Patrick Fiori can be read in full in the new Télé 7 Jours magazine. Available on newsstands from this Monday, February 5.