Clara Luciani's latest album is above all an intimate story. She created it when she was pregnant, a particular period which raised questions for the singer. “I wanted to go back to my family's roots. I asked my parents a lot of questions, I looked at old photos… and I wanted to tell this child who I was, 'where he was from, who his grandparents were, and what my story was'explains the singer at the microphone of Tout Public.
“This idea of transmission is very, very strong on this record.”
A personal and family exploration, which the listener will find throughout the album, particularly with titles like My mother, Romanceor the eponymous song from the album, My blood. Clara Luciani explains that she had wanted to write on the subject for a long time. “I find that blood is an interesting word since it disgusts a lot of people, and yet the symbolism is very strong, and has a very positive connotation for me, which is of the nature of life.” For her, getting pregnant was a turning point: “When I learned that I was expecting a child, it seemed obvious to me that it was the time to write about my blood, and what it meant to me”.
An album which carries a family story, but also friendship, since this third album is synonymous with a third participation of the musician Sage Ambroise Willaume. “He constantly stimulates me”shares the singer while thinking about the moments spent in the studio with the musician.
L’album My blood by Clara Luciani, available now on dedicated streaming platforms.
A look back at the youth of Old Furnaces
While the comic The Old Furnaces celebrates its 10th anniversary, the eighth volume entitled “Graines de Voyous”, written by Wilfrid Lupano and drawn by Paul Cauuet has just been released. This new volume reveals the youth of the characters, which allows us to better understand their trajectories, says Wilfrid Lupano.
A new album about the characters' past, which is not “not always pretty pretty”he confides. And in fact, in this volume a certain “class consciousness”, shares the author, but always with the aim of “address everyone”he specifies. “We learn about things that our characters did when they were young, and the driving force behind these misdeeds, these unworthy actions, is a class consciousness of the poor against the rich”explains the screenwriter about the three characters, known for their great age and their anarchist political leanings.
“You know, 'Les Vieux Fourneaux' is the only comic book where the authors end up looking like the characters at the end.”
Wilfrid Lupano highlights the old age of the characters, and the fact that they continue to age. Unlike most of the protagonists of Franco-Belgian comics, The Old Furnaces ont “a marker of passing time”he explains. The reader in fact sees time passing, particularly through the physical appearance of the characters which ages over the volumes. “It’s a series that will end badly”jokes Wilfrid Lupano. However, there is no question of giving in to nostalgia, “our old people (…) tend to move forward”says the screenwriter.
The Old Furnaces. Thug Seeds (Dargaud) by Wilfrid Lupano and Paul Cauuet, now available in bookstores.
Tribute to Charles Dumont
This Monday is also marked by the death of the composer Charles Dumont, who composed, among other things, the title “Non, je ne regrette rien”, performed by Edith Piaf. It is indeed difficult to discuss the career of Charles Dumont without mentioning his meeting with the latter. A meeting which marked a turning point in his career, and without which he would hardly have managed to record the thirty albums which made up his career.
A program with the participation of Matteu Maestracci and Yann Bertrand, journalists in the culture department of franceinfo.
