Paris, 18e arrondissement, a stone’s throw from the Puces and Porte de Clignancourt. At the end of a dead end, a large black gate. Sébastien Tellier receives us in his apartment, a few weeks after releasing a new EP, Symphonic. A space that he finds suitable for composing with a piano, guitars and large speakers.
The 47-year-old singer recalls his childhood in a residential area of Val-d’Oise, the Sundays spent listening to Pink Floyd with his father, a guitar enthusiast, and eating at Wimpy, a fast food chain, his admiration for Axl Rose, George Michael and the melodies of the 1980s, his slow transformation into an artist, his discovery of music videos Sexy Boy of Air, the composition of The Ritournellehis distrust of show, his obsession with clothing and his ability to write touching chords: “If I sit there at the piano, what comes out of me is something emotional, but not just any emotion: dreams, nostalgia, the desire for elsewhere, doubts… It’s my musical nature. »
For three seasons and now every week, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.
A podcast produced and presented by Géraldine Sarratia (Ideal Genre)
prepared with the help of Diane Lisarelli and Mélissa Phulpin
Directed by: Guillaume Girault
Music: Gotan Project
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