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Benjamin Biolay, the new seductive chanson in Murcia (14/05/2010)

Tomorrow, Saturday May 15 will be the turn of one of the darlings of French music, the Large and Benjamin Biolay, comes to music programming Other Regional Víctor Villegas Auditorium.

Singer, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and actor who edits La Superbe, his fifth album, Biolay is compared continuously with Serge Gainsbourg.

Biolay has been talked about by many French from the start of their debut album, Rose Kennedy, with whom he won the prestigious Victoire de la Musique for best album of 2002.

Francophiles worldwide recognize him as producer and co-writer of the first two discs of Karen Ann, and by the creations he has written for the legends of song as Juliette Greco, Françoise Hardy, Valerie Lagrange, Henri Salvador and Julien Clerc .

Biolay handled the string arrangements on the latest album by Carla Bruni, Comme If De Rien N'Etait, and will be tomorrow in Murcia.

The ticket price, 18 Euros.

Refined dramatic crescendos and string arrangements easily draw on the work of someone who grew up in a family of music lovers in Lion, learning to play the violin, tuba and trombone before he picked up a guitar.

"My life changed quickly, I finished my studies in music and founded a band with my cousin.

We were obsessed with The Smiths, Meat Is Murderparticularmente drive, "recalls his Anglophilia idyllic diet composed of Joy Division, New Order, Morrissey and XTC.

In fact, in the nineties, he joined the rock band "artie" L'Affaire Louis Trio and worked with the member of XTC, Colin Moulding, disk L'Homme Aux Mille Vies.

Anyway, was John Lennon who most influenced him.

"Keep going.

Essentially the period of The Beatles, obviously, but also the records Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Mind Games, Double Fantasy.

It was like my guide as a child, "said Biolay concludes as he had heard the White Album by the Beatles and the Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder, more times than he can remember.

It should be noted that the Superb is a double album, an exceptional event in the era of digital downloads.

In the words of Biolay, "La Superbe is a mindset, an attitude.

Try hard times when you have to rearrange your life.

I'm coming to one of my first loves, F.

Scott Fitzgerald.

I always had the ability to settle scores with people but, at this point, I am finding some particular truths.

Musically speaking, is done with the most serene and delicious abandon.

I started with the idea of making an album "urban" and ended up being a post-punk album.

Had about 56 songs and decided to retain the best.

I think it gives very good results as double album, "remarks the musician who spent several weeks in the ICP studios in Brussels wrapped by the latest Alain Bashung and British indie trio, White Lies.

The Superbe is a very cinematic album is like a dream as a film, with characters like Miss Catastrophe.

"It's the stereotype of many people.

I wanted to have the reference of the typical blonde Hitchcock film.

For me, is crying out to be in a movie, "says Biolay, who has a special ability to transport the listener to specific places in his songs.

Among the many superb songs that are on the album, Tu Es Mon Amour Confidentiel Gainsbourg's remembers the early sixties, drug slides in the direction of the cool jazz of Chet Baker, while Penny Lane-like includes a recurring Night Shop Spanish trumpet, Ruben Simeo.

"Just 17 years but in my opinion, it's the best in the world," emphasizes Biolay.

"When I started playing the trumpet, brings a bright light to the song.

Is obviously a tribute to Penny Lane, but also to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. "

Protagonist of the French musical scene of the last decade, the singer has also worked with Nova and Nada Surf and has toured Latin America, Germany and Spain among others.

"It's a pleasure to have some success in other countries.

I love to travel and entertain people and I hope it continues, "says Biolay, who sees no need to translate their lyrics for non French-speaking public.

"This is first and above all, music.

Hundreds of millions bought the music of the Beatles without understanding a single word in his lyrics.

Maybe write some songs in English if I want. "

With its house brand strings and melancholy feeling, the music of Benjamin Biolay is slow and hot, as its own image conveys.

The Superbe is like a luxury travel magazine with destination Etienne Daho Paris, Bashung, Gainsbourg and Michel Legrand.

Along with Air, Daft Punk and Phoenix, Biolay, undoubtedly, is responsible for leaving an indelible mark of the "French touch".

Source: Mar de Músicas

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