In six albums (the last, personas, dated from 2019), Bertrand Belin built the image and sound of a voice apart, a rock dandy with impeccable letters and outfit, spitting out his excessive energy on stage. However, the evolution was palpable, he says himself, until Vision Drum : “I said to myself, okay, that’s enough, we’re going to go directly to this other, slightly more synthetic world.“.
“I seek to create the conditions for dance, because I like when it grooves.”
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Groove always, happy overlays of sometimes analog synthesizers, of a mellotron bringing a new warmth. Bertrand Belin cites the Talking Heads as well as the contemporary pop of Australian Alex Cameron. In his studio, he had fun with these new instruments: “It’s like with the primary colors, you mix them endlessly until you get what you want, or like with the alphabet; we can do Ulysses and The Blue Bicycleit’s pretty crazy when you think about it!“
“What interests me is how we tell the world, how we transmit it.”
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Exploring, playing, not looking alike, it’s actually natural for an artist who regularly tastes theater, cinema, writing. “We are in a state of diversity at the start, he explainswhen I’m at the theatre, at the cinema or when I’m writing a book […] They don’t seem to me to be very different professions.“
And finally, on record – here the seventh in just over 15 years – or on stage, on screen, in words, we always feel what seems to make Bertrand Belin vibrate: fun.
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Bertrand Bellin, Vision Drum (Five 7/Wagram Music). Album available May 6. On tour in the fall, December 9 in Paris (Salle Pleyel).