Brigitte Fontaine is Brigitte Fontaine. For 85 years. A certainly unclassifiable artist, but whose multiple tentacles have brought back into their nets, over the course of this long career, very estimable traveling companions, responsible for honoring her insolent and rebellious prose. For the most notable, they are Areski Belkacem, Jacques Higelin, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jean-Claude Vannier, Etienne Daho, or Alain Bashung. A woman of taste who in the final stretch of her life knights the Perpignan mechanic duo, Lionel and Marie Limiñana, who came knocking at her door, to imagine a successor to the exploded, but a little too messy, New land (2020). Always eager for experiences (we still remember their exciting collaboration with Laurent Garnier on Movie), The Limiñanas brings together its gang of friends including Pascal Comelade on keyboards, to build a famous showcase for the greatest French rocker and this album is new proof of it.
Far from certain diesels of young French song with uncertain takeoffs, Brigitte the eternal rebel, delivers an entry uppercut on the court Nine Three, pamphlet for forgotten territory, agitated by police violence. This beginning of Pick Up is also astonishing since the ode to the red and black suburbs is followed by Marriage (1), angry saraband rotating in a loop between vicious electro-clash and virulent garage-punk, then arrives the overwhelming Cantilena where, on a melody half Cosma, half Morricone, she proclaims, movingly, “I want to live, I am three years old, I am over twenty thousand years old”. And we can count on this exceptional backing band to never lower the tension of a subtly nervous album. It must be said that the alliance is perfect between this new electric trance and the eternal delirious and exalted verve. But who other than Brigitte Fontaine could sing without being ridiculous: “the soap bubbles coming out of the beauties’ asses are white sheep or bleating kids, I love animals much more than humans” ? Unique, as we have said.
Brigitte Fontaine Pick Up (Verycords)
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Source: www.liberation.fr
