2023-07-23 09:58:00
Interspersed between Lous and The Yakuza and Damso on Saturday evening at the Paléo Festival in Nyon, Aya Nakamura pulled out of the game alongside six musicians. Despite a “good evening Geneva” as an opening quack, the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world delivered a swaying concert with West Indian rhythms.
She almost missed her meeting with Paléo by missing her TGV Paris-Geneva, while her musicians and dancers were already taking a dip in Lake Geneva off Nyon on a boat. It finally took a police escort for Aya Nakamura to arrive almost on time on the Main Stage of the Festival on Saturday evening.
Sentimental songs swaying
After ten minutes late, the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world enters the middle of six musicians and two singers for a “High level” which she punctuates with a “good evening Geneva” like a Johnny Hallyday years earlier. She is booed but is immediately forgiven.
If things start badly, the Franco-Malian in black shorts, white bra and silver hoop earrings does not disassemble and resumes her course with her string of swaying and sometimes chaotic sentimental songs (domestic violence in “Bobo”), where dancers and dancers sometimes deliver some lascivious glued-tight.
Singer Aya Nakamura on the Main Stage of the Paléo Festival in Nyon, July 22, 2023. [Anne Colliard – Paléo 2023]
West Indian percussions and rhythms
From “SMS” and “40%” to “Beleck”, “Pookie” and the epilogue full of choirs of “La dot”, Aya sways her hips and sings almost with ease, with more nuances than a beat and without pouts or overplayed tunes.
Without pre-recorded soundtrack or excess autotune in her live device as is the case in her albums, Aya Nakamura has chosen to vocalize on many percussions, between West Indian rhythms, zouk and African rumba. In any case, the performance makes it possible to give more flesh to its polyglot lexicon, its Newspeak full of alliterations and reinvented slang. Even if the interpretation still suffers from a lack of charisma.
Concert in the form of a long calm river
The rest of his performance in the form of a long quiet river, often taken up in chorus by an intergenerational audience, obviously knows a few peaks of communion on “Girlfriends”, “Jolie nana”, “Dégaine” and the unsinkable “Djadja” crossed by the flashes of an electric guitar and screams of joy from the public.
Without rhinestones or glitter, this almost cool performance by Aya Nakamura finally turns into a pleasant surprise despite the lack of nuances and musical variations. Far from the pure product of synthetic r’n’b in any case.
Olivier Horner
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