Our 1er guest is Mehdi Hadjeri.
For 10 years, Temenik Electric blurs the tracks with his epic pop, his arabian-rock and his electro-oriental trances.
2 EPs, 3 albums and 300 concerts later, the Marseille group led by Mehdi Haddjeri still remains a combo freed from clichés and ready-to-think. A rock sensation that is revealed more in the mists of his latest opus.
With this new album, Temenik Electric goes further, or closer, depending on the point of view, sketching out a sound geography like these neighborhoods nestled in the heart of megalopolises, these maze of streets with familiar and foreign scents at the same time, with melodies escaping from inner courtyards . In these spaces, we are here and a little elsewhere too. It could be Little Italy, Little Odessa, Little Spain or Little Syria, but in the hot vapors and eucalyptus-laden air, Temenik Electric has swept aside the community question to explore the world of intimacy. Dive into the big bath of Little Hammam.
Tracks played, excerpts from the album Little Hammam
– M’Cha O Jet
– Manich Maleik see the clip.
I am not an angel is a song that evokes the theme of the stigmatization of a category of people.
People for whom attention, an outstretched hand, would surely have changed their life trajectory. I’m not an angel, but I’m not a monster either.
Barkany
Knight
Temenik Electric to read on RFI Musique
Then we receive Leonie Pernet in the #Live session for the release of his new album The Circus of Consolation (InFined).
Since 2018 and the release of his 1st album crave, one thing seems certain: it will now be necessary to reckon with the multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Léonie Pernet to deconstruct pop made in France, to blend it, to densify it, to add its touch of genius and its grain of melancholy. Critically acclaimed, crave is carried on stage by Léonie behind her drums, microphone and synthesizers during a tour that will take her to France, England, Germany, NYC and Japan (2018-2019). In 2019, the acoustic EP is released The Craving Tape ; she begins to write her 2nd opus and at the same time composes film music (a heart of gold, by Simon Filliot, H24 Arte). Two years later, supported by the artistic director and mixer Jean-Sylvain Le Gouic (ex-member of the group Juveniles), Leonie Pernet gave birth to the demanding Cirque de Consolation. A consolatory utopia, a land of collective asylum. It is with these words that Léonie Pernet responds when asked what idea underlies this fictional place in which she invites us to join her, Le Cirque de Consolation. Léonie lifts the veil on her voice, more moving than ever, and offers us songs with racy and generous texts. 11 tracks including 3 instrumentals, dialoguing in directions as rich as they are varied. African, oriental percussion, synthesizers, drum machine or drums; Léonie mixes genres and instruments with incredible ease. From Hard Billy, a rebellious anthem under techno influence, to Les Chants de Maldoror, a club and dancing song carried by feverish darboukas, to the overwhelming “A rebours” and its afro-electronic rocker, passing by the very catchy It’s raining Men under Gainsbourian influence…
Léonie Pernet insolently inhabits borders and imposes her unique and singular style. The producer questions the links between pop music, African cultures and electronic music (Interieur Négro), the neo-classical (Le Cirque de Consolation, Dandelion), or the place of the voice, whether human or synthetic as in the atmospheric Vowel. The voice, because it is by now affirming hers that the young thirty-year-old reveals her flaws to us, but also her “deep hope”. Corporeality and gender, addiction, racism, the friability of our lives, but also love are all themes that run through the Cirque de Consolation and its solar melancholy. The Cirque de Consolation marks for the singer “an individual reconstruction, but also the hope of a collective reconstruction”. In the eponymous title, Léonie asks us a question and sings to us a proposal that we guess is essential to the pursuit of her personal and artistic path: “Will you hear me this time cradling our illusions in the light / Will you be among me in the circus of consolation?“
Léonie Pernet composed the original music for series H24, broadcast on ARTE and arte.tv. Inspired by real events, “H24 – 24 heures” in the life of a woman is a manifesto series that reports on violence against women on a daily basis. Based on an original idea by Nathalie Masduraud and Valerie Urrea who are making their first fiction here, the series offers 24 daring short films, based on the texts of 24 European authors, interpreted by 24 exceptional actresses.
Performed titles
– My love, you drink too muchLive RFI see the clip
– The Circus of Consolationfrom the album Le cirque de consolation
– The Songs of MaldororLive RFI.
Musicians
– Leonie Pernetvocals, percussion
– Jean-Sylvain Le Gouic, machinery.
His : Benoit Letirant, Mathias Taylor.