2023-09-11 17:28:00
the essential Pascal Obispo is back, on September 15, with an album that hits the mark, between impeccable ballads and very danceable funky pieces, all with subtle lyrics by Pierre Dominique Burgaud. He will be in concert at the Zénith on Saturday October 14.
Big return for Pascal Obispo. He is present on Florent Pagny’s album of duets, “2 bis”, which has just been released, will launch his own disc, “Le bleu qui pleut”, on September 15, and admits to being delighted with the “modernized” cover. of “Ten Commandments: the desire to love”, for which he composed the music and which will be found on tour in 2024. Without forgetting an album that he designed for Isabelle Adjani, expected in November.
Your new album contains 14 songs in CD version and 17 in vinyl version. Very generous proposal!
There will be even more songs on my application, which I have been feeding extensively for two and a half years. The traditional system prevents me from releasing as many albums as I would like. One every three years is not enough for me! I like to compose songs. All the time.
All the songs – except one – on your record are written by Pierre Dominique Burgaud, who notably worked with Alain Chamfort and on “Le Soldier Rose”. What do you like about him?
I’m not a fan of his work. What he did on Alain Chamfort’s last album, songs like “Microsillon” or “En attendant”, it’s wonderful. His writing is different from that of other authors. Pierre Dominique is both literary and funny, always surprising. His texts, particularly about the passing of time, touch me deeply.
One of your new songs is called “I Wasn’t Made for Happiness”. Really ?
I believe in art therapy: the best way I have found to heal myself is music. The beginnings were difficult but for more than 20 years, things have worked pretty well! I don’t really like victimization: I chose action rather than complaint.
Expressing one’s anxieties is the privilege of artists…
We always try to find connections, to forge a link with people, who cannot necessarily put words to their pain, to their loneliness. Pierre Dominique Burgaud manages to translate our feelings so well while maintaining a certain lightness.
“The blue that rains”, “How to love yourself” or “The wall” are superb ballads. In this difficult exercise, how do you manage to be touching without sinking into gnangnan?
With age, we manage to free ourselves from all the faults specific to this genre. Experience speaks, made of sincerity, sobriety and, I come back to it, of texts whose contribution is decisive. Musically, I think I can say that my ballads are feminine: I seek a sensitivity that men do not show enough because of their posture, their place in society.
Your tastes as a teenager were influenced by the English new wave. However, the tone of your rhythmic songs today is very funk, American-inspired…
We owe this to the contribution of jazz musicians Fred Nardin and Max Pinto, who produced the album. I asked them to apply the methods of Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson period. Fred and Max had never collaborated on an album of songs but they managed to please the rock kid in me. We find ourselves in the mid-80s in the United States. Thanks to Nardin and Pinto and also thanks to my musician friends Manu Katché, Laurent Vernerey, etc., it sounds great.
You sing, in a bouncy pop version, “The pleasure of stretching the hours in length”, in a duet with Alexia Grédy. Would you be a new follower of slowness, a contemplative?
It’s paradoxical: I want to stretch the time but I work more and more. I think I’ll take a break when I get to the other side!
You evoke death, ironically, in “The Beautiful Life Begins”…
I wanted two or three humorous songs on this album. On stage, I try to be funny between songs, which are rarely in this register. I found it amusing to put death into perspective, to tell myself that afterwards, I would be peaceful!
Album “The blue that rains”, released Friday September 15 (Atletico Records). Pascal Obispo in concert at the Zénith in Toulouse on Saturday October 14 at 8 p.m. Prices: from €49 to €79. “The 10 commandments”, Saturday December 21, 2024 at 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., at the Zénith in Toulouse. Prices: from €25 to €89.
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