DEEZER – ON DEMAND – PODCAST
Fifteen minutes is now enough to know everything about the stages of making a legendary title. With “Deezer Originals”, since May 2019, French artists have confided, in podcast format, on the why and how of the creation of their greatest hits.
Directed and produced by Stéphane Basset, these podcasts give the floor to the artists throughout the interview, on a musical background which they discuss. First scheduled every Tuesday, posting on the platform is becoming more and more irregular. The last part published to date honors Gaël Faye, for his song Little countryreleased ten years ago, followed, in 2016, by his book of the same name (Grasset, Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2016).
The particularity of this program is that we hear the samples, the recording sessions and the different tracks used, to understand the method and the path towards the final version of the piece. The sound of the instruments, the voice experiments or the familiar air of the melody, everything is analyzed and explained, mixing the artist’s inspirations, memories and feelings, as well as his creative spirit.
Are screened, all generations combined, new world, of fire ! Chatterton, Nueby Clara Luciani Greater Parisfrom Medina, On s’attacheby Christophe Maé, Raggamuffde Selah Sue, Safe and Soundby Justice, Winter Gardenthe Keren Ann, lunch in peaceby Stephan Eicher, They ballad Melody Nelsonby Serge Gainsbourg (narrated by Jane Birkin), Sarbacaneby Francis Cabrel… Behind the scenes unveiled by authors, composers and performers give new life to hits.
“It’s Like That” by Catherine Ringer
“I get closer like that, I talk like that, I hear you like that, the music is called It’s like that, everything is like that. » Catherine Ringer, “tracked” on January 25, 2021, reveals the secrets of the anatomy of the cult title It’s like that, from Rita Mitsouko’s second album, I don’t understand (1986), created with Fred Chichin (whose widow she has been since 2007). The creative process, she says, began with Fred Chichin playing arpeggios from a David Bowie song. The singer then took another guitar and the two melodies played immediately worked together.
“What’s funny is that we had a big success, which was Marcia Baila, then another, which was Andy, and that this song is another style of music. It is the affirmation that one could pass from one atmosphere to another: it was a marvelous adventure and a magnificent achievement”, reveals Catherine Ringer. The meaning of the song starts from something that “is secret and endless, which oppresses me and hurts my heart”. The singer also enjoyed creating a phonetics game with the word serpentwhich crawls in it, which sways and which consoles.
Ringer and Chichin, a mixture of Iggy Pop and the Bee Gees, composed their melodies by playing together, to establish a particular vagueness and dynamics, thanks to their difference in style. Also inspired by the music of the Andes and produced by Tony Visconti, It’s like that is uninhibited, to the point of letting the band’s assistant play the final guitar solo. “Just talking about it makes my heart twist, it makes me want to cry”, assures Catherine Ringer. She is not just talking here about a song, but about an era, her life. It’s a song of pain and ill-being, she says.
Tr acké, Deezer (Fr., since 2019, 15 min).