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Les Partisans du Chant night offers as much a return to the roots as a renewal of French chanson, which some feel is dated. An invitation to poetic creativity and musical magic, with resounding words and moving sounds, as well as provocative lyrics and addictive beats.
With the album La mère de nos mères, ardent musician Aurélie Charneux gives birth in full – music, lyrics, concept – to her first personal project, inspired by Lucy, the first woman, the essence of humanity. She brings back primitive nature as she shakes up her contemporaries and calls out to tomorrow's woman, not without a hint of cynicism. Different facets are sung, recited, slammed and shouted over music originating from far away countries, in a spirited, vibrant and organic climate. All done with great simplicity - just the way she wants it..
Viscerally independent, the anti-music industry militant Batlik is self-sufficient nonetheless, and he records one album a year, including XI lieux, his eleventh. Throughout his body of work, the writing of his mischievous and melancholic songs has progressed from advocacy to poetry. Now it’s absolute subtlety, in dictated words, the syncopated phrasing and the gentle voice with a unique timbre. The themes have also matured, while maintaining a common thread: the punctuation of misfortune and the punctuality of counter-attack. And then subtlety against inhumanity.
A multi-talented artist, twirling and hyperactive, Kacem Wapalek walks the crossroads of slam poetry, rap and singing, with influences taken from jazz, Raï and reggae. His writing is as playful as his imagination is fertile, and his words are in touch with our corrupt times. Juggling with the sounds and dissimulated senses he aligns with force, he has championed all categories of alliterations, assonance, antanaclasis and other spoonerisms. On stage, his energy is as unpredictable as it is contagious.