Florent Marchet reveals his new songs at the Bijou de Toulouse
Florent Marchet is showing at Le Bijou, in Toulouse on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 January.
Revealed by the album “Gargilesse” in 2004, then by the impeccable “Rio Baril” (2007) and “Courchevel” (2010), Florent Marchet is a talented jack-of-all-trades, who seemed to move away from the song in recent years. He wrote a novel (another is in preparation), signed numerous soundtracks for films, participated in musical readings, founded a family… but we still didn’t see anything happening to the “French records” section. Nice surprise: it is at Le Bijou that we will discover the songs from his album on Thursday and Friday, with the still secret title, expected in the spring. Perfect setting for such an endearing artist: “I wanted to redo the scene, but otherwise, says the singer. The musical readings that I was able to do, in particular with Nicolas Mathieu, the author of “Their children after them”, revealed to me a closeness, an intimacy with the public that I had forgotten. In large rooms, we lose most of what the song expresses, we are no longer in the dressing … “The confinement allowed Florent to compose by taking his time and playing them to his friends or his family, he realized that small and attentive audiences, simple reduced arrangements (piano, vocals) revealed to the songs their naked truth: “These are the songs, the stories of a forty-something and, if we had to look for a link between them, I would say that they could exist in the residential and comfortable districts of the United States: everyone says that they should pool efforts, act together … but what matters above all is their house, their car, his swimming pool … ”Close to the spirit of the photographs of Gregory Crewdson, who captures like no one the other side of the American dream, the songs of Florent Marchet, whose acuity and accuracy of gaze are known, pinpoint the crosses a decidedly very strange era.