Barely a few days following its release, on January 21, the fourth album by Parisian Jazzy Bazz, Memory, is already in first place on the top album and its tour, which begins on March 4, is sold out for certain dates. Its success also marks the success of a French rap collective, L’Entourage. He knew how to put the art of rhyme at the center of his concerns, betting on an extraordinary friendship which allowed eleven rappers to remain united despite the commercial explosion of one of their own, Nekfeu. Jazzy Bazz, esthete of rhyme, passionate regarding jazz that his saxophonist father from Italy nurtured throughout his childhood, is one of his fine blades.
The result is stunning, between the infrabass and the digitized cello of “Panorama” with Alpha Wann
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Ivan Bruno-Arbiser, has taken his music to a new stage following the subtle Night, published in 2018. He first went to Argentina, the country of origin of his mother, taking in his luggage one of his composers, Monomite, with the idea of recording new songs there. ” In fact, he explains, hilarious, between my friend who was discovering the country, and me who wanted to see my maternal family every day, we may have recorded a verse in a month and a half. »
The work really began in Paris, where for three years the rapper wrote more than a hundred models: « I even threw away a first version of the album thanks to my friends, precisely, from L’Entourage, Alpha Wann and Deen Burbigo, who told me : “There, it’s not good yet, there are still too many attempts, it’s not really what we expect yet.” »
These French rap artists share this requirement that we find in memory : link content and form, sensitively render the atmosphere “of a country on the verge of civil war” as he writes in the title that gives the album its name, make a sound old school while remaining extremely contemporary. “We fell into rap in the 1990s, he explains, but we keep this modern side because we listen to everything that comes out. We love today’s rap. »
To achieve this, they team up with young composers who have been fans of their music for ten years. « Johnny Ola, who produced most of the tracks on the album, is a young man from Nîmes who moved to Paris to become a sound engineer, and whom we took on an internship in our studios, details Jazzy Bazz. Today, he and his friends created their own, the Goldstein Studio, and I recorded my whole album there.. »
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