Emmanuel Da Silva has a great career. On the fringes a lot, with multiple collaborations, compositions, creations for very different artists, from Yseult to Jenifer. Also with many projects in museums, nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, neighborhoods…
The visible side of the iceberg is his concerts and his albums. Grand Hotel is already the tenth album under his name, in less than twenty years of solo career. The most personal because life wanted it that way.
At 48, the Breton artist, now from Morbihan after having lived in Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor) and Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), has experienced two difficult years. Stunned by a press article which left him distraught for a moment, he then fought against what is commonly called a long illness.
Both were sources of inspiration. “I was scared. I thought I wasn't going to make it. And then, I also had a feeling of injustice deep inside me. In short, I started this record in a state where I was beginning to come back to life. »
And this gives, for example, in If I go out : « Bringing my body back to life/The experience of reality/Handling with life/Even if there are sparks. »
Of course, there are also bursts of anger in his voice: “ Behind me there is a man/Who can no longer forget/Who will return all the blows/From the first to the last. » Despite everything, the singer puts things into perspective: “I don’t want the bitterness to get to me. However, I
went through phases that I had to write about. A song is a little moment
t of truth that we are going through, a state that will no longer exist. »
Unlike literature, songs can rely on both poetry and melody to add lightness and beauty where there is none. This is what emerges from this album, so luminous. For this, Emmanuel Da Silva relied in particular on a singer friend Sylvie Hoarau, from the duo Brigitte.
“I love working with her. She is very sunny while I am rather dark. »
On What's left?their duet is sumptuous.
Grand HotelBayard Musique, 10 tracks, 34 min.
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