1 “Perfect Love”, an album not far from being so?
August 19, 2003. A guy with messy hair, in black and white, looks at the camera, his face scratched, perhaps by the cat he is holding in his arms. Surely by the romantic breakup that he portrays over the course of 13 angry songs, with lucid self-flagellation, with excruciating writing, with exciting folk-rock. “When is happiness? » in tube. But also the bomb “She told me”, the heartbreaking “Dolorosa”, the disenchanted “Your desires make a mess”, the bravado and pitiful “Grand jour”. Nothing or almost nothing to throw away in “This Perfect Love” to the battered hero, never spared. The uncompromisingly held mirror delights girls and boys.
2 Twenty years later, birthday duos
To celebrate two decades of the album “which opened the arms of my life”, Cali invites his friends from the French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon scene to revisit the 13 songs in a rather intimate light. “When is happiness? » with Cabrel is a big one, like “Let’s think about the future” with Eicher, like “It’s always morning” with… Adamo. Dominique A, Bénabar, Lavilliers, but also Peter Kingsbery and Elliott Murphy are part of the party. They can’t come on tour but the singer has a better idea to sing this first album in its entirety, and some gems from the next eight.
3 Steve Nieve’s Magic Keyboard
They met 10 years ago. Love at first sight and artistic evidence. Cali can’t believe he caught the eye and ear of Steve Nieve, a piano great, almost inseparable from Elvis Costello, whom he has accompanied for forty years. An incomparable touch, a sensitivity taking the songs elsewhere. The two men have already gone on tour together, notably revisiting Ferré. Here they are together again on this tour.
4 Cali on stage: unique
A kid, a crazy person, a mutt, a daredevil who sometimes does too much but never enough: for twenty years, Cali in concert has been a generous and crazy experience. And above all never to the detriment of the songs.
“20 years of perfect love”, Tuesday January 14 (8:30 p.m.) in Bordeaux, Fémina theater. From €37 to €45.