the essential
After taking a creative break for a few years, Sylvain Reverte returns to the forefront with a new album: “Des Pommes et des Étoiles”. It is also the title of a single and the video clip which will be released on November 8.
Sylvain Reverte writes, composes and performs his songs. He already has two solo albums to his credit in 2014 and 2018, which have led him to play on the most beautiful stages in France and to tour at major festivals in France and abroad.
He also opened for Cabrel, De Palmas, Sansévérino, Raphaël and many other great singers, often authors, composers and performers like him. He is part of this family of artists who give the song its letters of nobility, who put meaning in their texts without neglecting the pleasure of listening. We love hearing their music, appreciating the particularity of their voice and their interpretation, and grasping the meaning of the message they carry.
The single “Des Pommes et des Étoiles” is not a song with lyrics, but there is definitely a text and a meaning in this song.
Birth
It was on the heights of Moncaut (and therefore getting closer to the stars) that the title was born. “At the start, it was just a musical improvisation at Brank’art, the studio of my neighbor and friend Pierre. Percussion, sounds produced with a cheese grater, a child’s tambourine, the friction of a can on the strings of my guitar…” This makes Sylvain smile when he remembers this moment, until the melody begins. form and other instruments complete the score. How then did the apples and the stars arrive? “It’s inspiration that rules,” Sylvain tells us. There is no absolute rule in the text/melody pairing, there is no jealousy: one day the music guides the text, another the text punctuates the music. »
Adolescence
The next step in creation was taken in the studio of Julien Lebart, Cali’s pianist since 2002, in Rivesaltes. It was already with Julien that Sylvain had worked for his second album, “Soleil rouge”, in 2018. They finalized the project together, which led to the definitive studio version, later produced under Sylvain’s independent label, “ Before night.”
Return home
The clip was filmed in Moncaut. “I wanted to make a clip produced in a short circuit, 100% local! » With such a statement, we can imagine that the artist depicted organic apples! The text of “Of Apples and Stars” is a parable around the apple, the forbidden fruit, the worm that can be inside, the implacable realism of universal gravity illustrated by the legend of Newton, and the stars that open onto a very different poetic universe. We find this duality in the clip with the choice of black and white for its production.
And the melody? At the end of listening, when the music stops, the chorus and the notes continue to run through your head… not addictive, but almost!
