She sings it twenty minutes into the concert and she has it. “Fever”. Olivia Ruiz was sick in bed until recently but was keen to ensure her reunion with Mérignac’s “Krakat'”, after an eight-year recording hiatus, occupied by creations in dance and literature. “I devoured her two books, it’s so her too,” breathes Séverine, a 45-year-old from Pessac, one more than the girl “in key ring format” who presents herself as her five musicians, her head buried under a blue hood for a powerful “Pachamama”.
In addition to the latter, the author-composer presents this Tuesday, November 26, six other pieces from her new album “The replica”, a title closing an hour and a half of big sound and sweetness. The sunny roots of Spain, sensuality, exiles and solidarity always at the heart of his titles. All to music renewed by judicious electro textures.
Stylish hood for “Pachamama” in the opening.
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After the essential “Mushroom Crêpes” from the second album which made her explode almost twenty years ago, she recalls that in the hall, the SOS Méditerranée association is waiting for support, that “forced exile will affect us all perhaps one day”, that the welcome of difference grows in us before continuing with “To you”, another novelty.
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The show is square, tight, almost too much so. But each song is a journey; that of a free woman and precursor of current revolutions, taking responsibility for her body, her desires even in the laughing patronage towards her musicians. The child she left “for four sleeps” is at the heart of the song “Le sel”. The two flagship albums “La femme chocolat” and “Miss Météores” (2005 and 2009) are pampered, from the telluric “Quijote” and “Split The Devil” to the always delicious and acoustic “J’raie des pieds”.
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An hour and a half concert with no downtime.
We regret the absence of songs from the very first album (“J’aime pas l’amour”) but that doesn’t matter: despite the slump, Olivia Ruiz delivers. The granddaughter of immigrants fleeing the Franco dictatorship embodies a mixed France and welcoming land with energy, naturalness and obviousness. It perks up a bit.
