– An evening under the starry sky by Nicolas Fraissinet
Returning to his Vaudois roots, the Franco-Swiss singer is in concert in Renens with a stellar show.
“Stars in the eyes”, Nicolas Fraissinet arrives in Renens. This Friday, March 31 at the Salle de spectacles, the Franco-Swiss singer is performing his first novel on stage, a book whose QR codes refer to songs from an album, the story of a teenager who learns that a fortnight separate from inevitable blindness. This album is the story of an initiatory journey with, at the heart of the show, “life itself”. “This story is not sad, assures the artist. It is the search for happiness motivated by, it is true, a drama. But the whole of this project falls under the theme of joy and liberation, in a plastic but not negative melancholy.
“I feel like family in Switzerland. And I like to find myself near an aquatic point. It’s instinctive, the music of the water speaks to me, you can hear it in my songs.
Nicolas Fraissinet, singer
Nicolas Fraissinet holds the key to a dreamlike world, fragile, but resistant, voluntary, like the word he gives to his creations. An artist who comes from cinema, projection and the stage, three spaces that stop time, and whose common denominator is light. “The one who opens the heart, who calls to order when it comes to humanity, desires, fears, liberation of the soul through art. I am in a dynamic of sharing”, says the one who was born on the shores of the lake, in Lausanne. “Friday, yes, it will be a homecoming. I feel like family in Switzerland. And I like to find myself near an aquatic point. It’s instinctive, the music of the water speaks to me, you can hear it in my songs”, like the animals, whose cause he defends.
Where does he draw his inspiration from? “When I was little, I opened the cupboards to see what was behind! I drew comics, I wrote plays and composed pieces of music. It’s not surprising that his imagination readily approaches the immersive world of fairy tales, that of Tim Burton or vampires: “I like crossroads, surreal worlds. In the book, there are fountains everywhere, a giant hourglass…” The state of mind and the freedom generated make everything possible. All he has to do is draw it for it to come to life, like doors that engage dimensions and repeat themselves ad infinitum. With him, a world always creates a new one, like this allegory of the ambiguity of immortality that runs through his clip “Orpheus».
Windows of Hope
His novel is an extension of himself, where he tackles deep, unusual themes, as long as they highlight fears and apprehensions. “I would say it’s regarding experiencing darkness and finding windows of hope.” A way to exorcise his fears, to reveal them through artistic biases? “Not exorcism, which would lead to anxiety, not the fear of facing things, nor of treating. Here, it is the desire to share a way of seeing.”
“The whole song, book and show is more regarding liberation and the loss of sight that leads to another form of vision, which we might call enlightenment.”
Nicolas Fraissinet, singer
Stars in the eyes and melody in the body. Nicolas Fraissinet prefers modesty, that we are interested in what he does rather than what he lives. “For me, the main thing is not in the ostentation of my private sphere, but in the nature of the sharing of my art.” He confides all the same: his sensitivity – with the immense empathy that runs through his texts – is the result of his career. “All my work indeed revolves around sight, because I am amblyopic, I have only seen out of one eye since I was born.” The most beautiful eyes are here a source of light, in the transcendence of a function that opens up to other fields. “All of the songs, the book and the show are more regarding liberation. Loss of sight leads to another form of vision, which one might call…enlightenment.”
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