The queen of French pop Clara Luciani returns this Friday with “Mon sang”, a third album marked by the arrival of her first child.
Three years after the very disco “Heart”, of which she sold 400,000 copies, Clara Luciani unveils “Mon Sang” this Friday.
A third album, preceded by the singles “Tout pour moi” and “Romance”, including 13 tracks between intimate ballads and catchy hits, through which the hypersensitive brunette with a deep voice offers a reflection on filiation, an intimate subject since she recently gave birth to her first child.
“I wrote this record when I was expecting my child, I wanted to introduce myself to him in 13 songs,” she told AFP. It's a record that talks a lot about bonds that are made, that are broken, that we question, friendly, loving, family bonds. It’s also the idea of going as far as possible into the origins, that the ancestors are there and that we carry them within us.”
As for the theme of pregnancy, she wanted to treat it in all these nuances: “I had a very Instagrammable vision of what pregnancy was, where you have perfect girls who smile while touching their bellies in dresses with flowers… In fact, that's not really life. This album is not a lie: I show her as she is and the moment of pregnancy as it is, that is to say much darker and deeper than one might think.
The transition from “Heart” to “My Blood” wasn’t easy, she said. “It’s very difficult for me to come back after a record that was as enjoyable as ‘Heart’,” she confided to Le Figaro. The tour had something really festive all the time. This album positioned me as a singer who makes you dance. I went to the end of this glitter side,” explains the thirty-year-old.
More rough edges
The 32-year-old artist, who will be at the cinema at the end of December starring in the musical comedy “Joli Jolie” by Diastème, also told AFP that the musical color of this new record moved away from that of disco “Heart” to be more like “his first EP ('Monstre d'amour') and his first album ('Sainte-Victoire'), while being different. “It has a little more Italian sound sometimes, with harpsichord notes, something more rock with more room for the guitars, the bass which fades a little. And then maybe a little more roughness,” she analyzes.
Definitely more melancholic, “Mon sang” does not only evoke family ties, since it is also a question of disappointed friendship, as in “Chagrin d'ami”. The album ends with a gem: “Forget me not”, a duet with Canadian-American crooner Rufus Wainwright.
Clara Luciani will be on tour throughout France from December 14 (in Nîmes). It will notably be on January 21 in Rennes, January 28 in Lille, March 7 in Paris, March 20 in Grenoble and even March 27 in Marseille. All dates can be found here.
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