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Because the songs are ” essential oxygen bubbles “, especially in a stifling period, Matthieu Chedid endorses the panoply of his musical double – M – for tour and album, supported by Gail Ann Dorsey, bassist for David Bowie.
Also seen alongside Tears for Fears or Lenny Kravitz, this newcomer to the artist’s galaxy is the big surprise in the music video for revalitylead single and album name due June 3.
In this video inspired by the universe of superheroes, in particular Batman, – M- (“ my soul, my reflection, my mask ” he describes to AFP) joins forces with this musician, a key element of David Bowie’s new impetus at the turn of the 2000s.
” I dreamed of playing with her, but I would never have dared to call her “, explains the singer and guitarist. ” Alain Lahana, who knew Bowie well, and the management, told me one day that she was in France and was looking for a place to work on her bass. “
The American therefore remains in the studio below her house in Paris for several months, at a time when he lives in the countryside. When he finally meets her, at lunch, he asks her ” timidly if she wouldn’t want to do the bass on a track, then one thing led to another on the album, also doing backing vocals, we all remember her performing Under pressure with Bowie at Taratata “.
New purple costume
She will also agree to do the gargantuan tour which begins on April 8 and will stretch until the end of the year, between average rooms to warm up – with in particular thirteen evenings at the Folies Bergère – then festivals and all the speakers of Zenith type, including four in Paris.
” She comes to settle in France – well, her darling is French, that helps (laughs) – for the tour “, completes the son of Louis Chedid. ” Gossips will say ‘he paid for Gail Ann’, but it’s very hard to know her, we don’t force Gail Ann, she gave me her trust and her time. “
The other new thing in the clip is that – M – is sporting a new purple suit. An obvious reference to Prince and the album “Purple Rain”. ” Prince is one of the major artists for me, like all those who digested Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. “
In your radio is the second excerpt released. We hear the word “radio” pronounced in English, a nod to Video killed the radio star Buggles – “the first 45 rpm I bought” – but also Radio by Michel Polnareff or even On the radio de Donna Summer.
“Getting out of this greyness”
Matthieu Chedid, with his tracks that mix funk and disco (revality) ou pop et ska (In your radio) intends to breathe a ” vibration, swing high energy in a world surrounded by low energy, give color, get out of this greyness “. ” I feel missioned for this “, he breathes.
Obviously, the question arose of the place of the artist, between health crisis and invasion in Ukraine. ” We say to ourselves, ‘I’m making a little song, it doesn’t make sense with everything around us’, but by talking with loved ones who have known a world that is collapsing, we realize that songs are bubbles essential oxygen. “
A reflection born from what one of his friends, the Lebanese Khaled Mouzanar, confided to him, who notably composes the music for the films of his wife Nadine Labaki (Capernaum, Caramel).
” One day in Lebanon, the guy who had opened the door of a shelter for him to escape the bombings goes out to smoke. A bomb explodes and kills him. Then, from the shelter, we hear the mewing of the cats devouring the body. Khaled told me that what saved him from insanity later were things like listening to ABBA loudly on the walkman “, unfolds the fifty-year-old.