In the small village hall of Captieux, in October, he signed quietly after a concert in an intimate format, a musical conversation in trio. We still quickly imagine him as a slightly distant dandy and that is not the case: Alain Chamfort is just classy, modest and discreet. He could boast of almost sixty years of career punctuated by hits (“Manureva”, “Géant”, “Traces de toi”… the list is long) and his status as a precious melodist, but no. Having experienced several times the avatars of a music industry dedicated to immediate profit, the musician has a placid and polite perspective without forgetting.
After a long period with the author Jacques Lanzmann, the musician works with Pierre-Dominique Burgaud (“The Pink Soldier”), a fine and delicate pen, ideal for accompanying the septuagenarian on the path to wisdom and aerial assessments. After the already very beautiful “Vie Saint-Laurent” and “Désordre des choses”, the duo delivered last spring a sumptuous “Impermanence”, modern and elegant sounds and textures for a timeless opus, enhanced with a masterpiece work, “Grace”.
Pop formula at the Rocher
The man announced this gem as the last of his 16 studio albums. We hope for bravado but Alain Chamfort is rather rigorous. “I don’t want to make too many albums,” he told us in April. “With my author and friend Pierre-Dominique Burgaud, we really thought of it as the last, so the age, the look at what happened, the dismay at the time, but never with bitterness. We are talking about the end, but with light. »
“We are talking about the end, but with light”
And to go on tour in two ways: as a trio already mentioned, but also more classically in a pop format, accompanied by a quartet of guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. The essentials are expected but also the nuggets from the latest opus. “Inadvertently” and “The Happy Apocalypse” are even strongly desired. And “La Grace”, of course, ideal for the finale.
Saturday November 16 (8:30 p.m.) in Cenon, Rocher de Palmer. 39 euros. First part: Xavier Polycarpe.
