What regime does this essential figure in our country’s audiovisual landscape follow on a daily basis? One cultural outing per evening. Certainly including concerts. As we shall see.
What was the first record you bought with your own money as a teenager?
All the boys and girls of our much missed Françoise Hardy. I was thirteen years old with the complicity of my grandmother who advanced me the money secretly from my parents.
Your favorite way to listen to music?
MP3.
The last record you bought and in what format?
The album Elowi by rapper Yamê available for download on platforms.
Where do you prefer to listen to music?
All alone in my room.
Do you listen to music while working?
Oui, Arvo Part, Keith Jarrett, Laurie Anderson…
The song you’re ashamed to listen to with pleasure?
The most beautiful to go dancingSylvie Vartan.
The record that everyone loves and you hate?
I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas. There is a lot of energy to dance and make people dance, but it is a mechanical pleasure, too forced, too mainstream. It is too seductive from the start.
The disc you’ll need to survive on a desert island?
Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on you.
Is there a label or record company that you are particularly attached to?
Bongo Joe. A Swiss label specializing in reissues that also has a great alternative location in Geneva, between a vinyl store and a concert hall.
Which record cover do you want to frame in your home as a work of art?
Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division par Peter Saville.
A record you would like to hear at your funeral?
Bob Marley, Exodus For all the values he embodies and which we really need right now and for his voice which makes me fly. Exodus to go far with him into the darkness.
Do you know what drone metal is?
A kind of subgenre of metal music? I love it. Did you know that there is currently a great exhibition on metal at the Philharmonie de Paris?
Do you prefer records or live music?
Live music. Standing around dancing among others in a trance.
Your best concert memory?
Patti Smith. A few years ago, she improvised a concert where she sang Rimbaud in a café, the Rouquet in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It was sublime.
Do you go to clubs to dance, flirt, listen to music on a good sound system or do you never go to clubs?
Alas, I am no longer invited to big parties where there was a lot of dancing. Too old, no doubt.
What is the band that you hate to see live, but whose records you love and vice versa?
I love seeing Nick Cave and his band but I prefer listening to Orelsan’s records.
Your favorite musical movie?
The Young Ladies of Rochefort by Jacques Demy without hesitation.
What is the record that you share with the person who accompanies you in life?
Barbara, the black sun.
The song that makes you mad with rage?
Europe is Lost by Kae Tempest, a sublime piece but which makes me mad with rage when I hear the lyrics because she was right before everyone else.
The last record you listened to on repeat?
Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter. She never ceases to captivate us because she is constantly renewing herself. She is always looking in directions where we do not expect her. This latest album is for me a superb ballad of today but also of all time.
The group you would have liked to be a part of?
Brigitte Fontaine’s band Like on the radio, with Areski or now when she sings “I’m old and I don’t give a damn about you” and also Destiny’s Child because they revolutionized R’n’B Gospel.
The song or piece of music that always makes you cry?
By the grace of you de Jane Birkin.
His favorite titles
Violet For Thanks to life (1966)
Daft Punk Where is the truth? (2001)
Aya Nakamura Pookie (2019)
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