After an intimate acoustic tour to celebrate 10 years in the music business
career, and having lent his pen to a number of popular successes
(Zaz, Frero Delavega, Claudio Capéo), Barcella unveils "Mariposa", his
his 5th album, undoubtedly his most... intimate and raw. While his malice and
and delicacy remain, the overall tone takes on a kind of smiling melancholy.
smiling melancholy.
His tender words are clothed in sensitive strings and "enrythmed" with
and demanding sounds of the present. He draws us into his imaginary territories
where poetry reigns supreme, bathed in wind and light. We
sun above the clouds.
Without falling into facile autobiography, Barcella remains a modern
modern observer of the world we live in, which he sketches with his
with his vocabulary in motion. It's his role, his mission, to show us
to show us that beauty has not abandoned us. Hope, temporary sadness
sadness, birth, disappearance and subtle sensuality are the ingredients
of this springtime album.
Mariposa means butterfly in Spanish "Because a butterfly is reborn.
What a symbol! It's also the surname of the heroine of her first novel
her first novel, published two years ago, which gave her another way of
to write her songs, to "knit and unknit the French language", so that they become even more her own.
so that they become even more ours.
The 40-something singer will be bringing his poetic variety
his poetic variety on stage, in his own playground, with a fine
tour, stopping off at Le café de la danse in Paris on May 4. We're reminded
of Bourvil's tenderness, Sébastien Tellier's flashes of brilliance, Elliott Smith's
the sensitivity of Elliott Smith, the whispers of Radiohead. There's no doubt about it,
Barcella makes you feel at home.