Culture. This Wednesday, May 8, the Bernard Dimey festival opened its doors to Régis Cunin and Laurence Decker then at 8:30 p.m. it was up to Barcella from Reims to perform on the stage of the Robert Henry cultural space.
After the official inauguration of the Bernard Dimey Festival (JHM on May 9), it’s time for Régis Cunin and Laurence Decker. Festival-goers in 2022 will remember the mischievous performance of Régis Cunin in Eric Frasiak’s band. This Wednesday, the singer-songwriter was offered the entire stage, shared with Laurence Decker, who has been passionate about singing since she was little, and who has become a recognized artist and accomplice of Régis Cunin for thirty years.
Festival-goers were delighted to enjoy the elegance of his play on words and his music during his show. There is Perret, Lapointe, Brassens and Trenet in this boy. The same finesse of spirit and treatment.
Seemingly nothing, Régis Cunin casts a sharp, amused or tender, moving or caustic, but never very mean look at his contemporaries. His thing is verbal cooking. But not just any mixture. Playful and inventive, singer Régis Cunin kneads the words before serving them to you, in his own way, a mixture of poetry and fantasy. A concert full of winks, puns, invented words. We ask for more.
Barcella in the square
Then it’s time for Barcella in Reims. Barcella had already performed at the festival in 2016. He returns after a tour and after having lent his pen to some great popular successes with Zaz, Fréro Delavega, Claudio Capéo.
Barcella introduced festival-goers to his 5th album “Mariposa”. An intimate and calm album where Barcella remains a modern observer of the world which welcomes us and which he sketches with his moving vocabulary. It transports us between hope, temporary sadness, birth, disappearance and sensuality. Ingredients that make this album a spring album.
“Mariposa” butterfly in Spanish, it is also the last name of the heroine of her first novel, published two years ago and which offered her another way of writing her songs, of “knitting, of unknitting the French language”.
Acoustic atmosphere
The man in his forties has brought his poetic variety loud and clear to the Nogent scene. With already four albums to his credit and a novel “The Butterflies” released in 2022, Barcella multiplies the distinctions and released this fifth album in April. His songs are full of tasty terms. As he likes to remind us, he writes and composes his songs on the guitar then Philippe Billoin takes over the music on the piano which sometimes gives a different color and helps him to imagine arrangements.
The singer-guitarist and songwriter seduces with his soft voice. With titles like “Your tears or smile at me”, he sings the expression of feelings or those of human relationships with “The rainy days” or “The heart of men”.
The atmosphere on stage this Wednesday evening was often acoustic, with string arrangements and light rhythms with Frantxao Erretçaret on drums and percussion, Philippe Billoin on piano and Julien Fanterre on bass. The music of Barcella from Reims tends towards pop and folk music.
Music that surrounds you with its delicacy, and words that touch and move the audience. “Beautiful work” as we like to say for this opening of the 23rd Bernard Dimey festival.
From our correspondent Jean-Marc Raclot
This Friday you will find the Quebecer Noé Talbot at 3 p.m., then the Swiss Bel Hubert at 5 p.m. and Narcisse at 8:30 p.m.
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On stage Régis Cunin mixes the words. -
A real bond between Régis Cunin and Laurence Decker.
