Maéso, thirteen titles in the colors of Toulouse
We will find in trio, this summer on several stages of the Haute-Garonne, the Toulouse singer Maéso, who has just released “Tic tac” his fourth album.
Who in Toulouse does not know Maéso, Jean-Paul by his first name, and his emblematic hat matched with this warm South-West accent? An artist who for decades has united his life with song in eternal nuptials, sometimes tinged with nostalgia. Native of Agen, Maéso is at the beginning, bass player and accompanies Francis Cabrel in his beginnings. “I started with him in the balls of my region. It is a very beautiful memory”.
melodic pop
With this fourth album “Tic Tac” to be discovered on all musical platforms, the Toulouse singer signs thirteen songs imbued with tenderness and that something that makes life sweeter. Thirteen titles in the colors of Toulouse (“My sister’s bike”) or even those of passing time and the memories that remain. Maéso plunges into the images of yesterday, the moments that we don’t want to forget, friendship, love… In short, everything that builds an existence.
In 2020, Maéso released “Vie de loft” which worked rather well with “Les chocolatines”, an emblematic title which reminds him of his time at the Bikini where, several years ago, he had distributed these pastries.
“After the covid like many artists, I struggled a bit. I was able to play thanks to the Crous de Toulouse, which gave me carte blanche for a concert filmed without an audience.
This generative creator who for thirty years has delighted us with his melodic pop releases an album every year “a musical baby” as he says. Because despite the difficulties, he still believes in it. With more than 3000 musical performances to date, this singer-songwriter never hangs up his guitar.
June 25, place Belfort, 30 in Colomiers…
“I gave up everything to do this job, I believe in it and sometimes I do it all the way, even if it’s a little hard”. Maéso cultivates the love of this profession like others their piece of garden.
This summer, Maéso will play in trio with Alex Berna on bass and Alain Gibrat on drums on several stages in Haute-Garonne.
In particular on June 25, place Belfort for the neighborhood festival, on June 30 in Colomiers “At the terminus of the pretentious”, in Escoulis for the village festival on July 8. He will celebrate on July 14 with a concert at the “Château des Confluences” then he will be on July 23 in Donneville at “Pizza Mamita”.
Far from having a summer of rest, Maéso is preparing his 5th album “Dimanche” which will be released in October: “I am turning more and more towards songs with texts, he declares. Perhaps to stand out from the musical bazaar that currently reigns. This album will have a particular flavor where in addition to the musical notes, there are the words of the writer Hafides (Hafid Saidi) who delivers a poetry of committed and pacifist action made of situations lived in the dream of deliverance. Maéso will take advantage of his summer performances to break in the new titles of this promising album.
Bring on the fall, for once.