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After years of silence, the French electronic artist, author of the hit “Nightcall”, soundtrack of the film “Drive”, released his 2nd album, “Reborn”.
Kavinsky, 46, mightn’t stand the pressure of the success of ‘Nightcall’.
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Anyone who has seen the thriller “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling remembers the hero’s scorpion jacket or the title “Nightcall” that encapsulates the credits. Passed unnoticed when it was released in 2010, this piece climbed to the top of the international charts the following year, thanks to the film. And is logically found in the first album, “OutRun” in 2013, by Kavinsky.
And then, radio silence, until the album “Reborn”, which was released on March 25, 2022. An anomaly in a music industry where artists multiply projects when it’s “their time” as we say in the business . “To answer very honestly, I had a good time (laughs), traveled a lot, did a lot of things that have nothing to do with music,” Kavinsky sums up, to AFP. “I wanted to get away from it all. After the success of “Nightcall”, I felt a little too much pressure to continue, I did not want to disappoint people with something that would not have been in the same vein or which precisely would have been in the same vein”, continues “Vinco”, nickname for his close friends of Vincent Belorgey.
The ‘Reborn’ record is more timeless than its predecessor, though 1980s hues still reflect on the album’s bodywork. But the mechanics have changed. If “OutRun” came out of the computers, the real instruments punctuate “Reborn”. And the cast of mechanics will make the competition swoon. Among the co-composers of certain pieces, we find all the musicians of Phoenix or even Gaspard Augé, half of Justice, and SebastiAn.
“SebastiAn gets up in the morning and makes music before his coffee. Me, it’s when I want to ”: Kavinsky admits it, without the confinements which “refocused him on music, because we might no longer do anything”, there might not have been from second album. A disc where we also find the voices of Sébastien Tellier or Prudence, ex-half of The Dø.
(AFP)
