This year is full of music for Stephan Eicher. Two EPs released before June, an entire album today, but still with this feeling of not really belonging: “Normally when you buy a house, you make a loan and in the end it is yours! Well not in our job“, he smiles. But let’s be reassured, after many adventures with his record company, to the point of no longer releasing records, he is back more productive than ever.
The tender beauty of the twelve titles of this album, Ode, on the other hand totally belongs to him, carried by the texts of Philippe Djian and Martin Suter. We therefore find songs already released, including the magnificent The Lightest in the Worldand five other unpublished ones, like this diptych Thunderstorm and Thinning.
Stephan Eicher has actually been leading this project for a while: “We were in a big mess, in the middle of a pandemic, and I started to work on this gesture that was stolen from me, to hug someone, who explains life in a small gesture“. So, naturally: “I was wondering if we could, with my musicians and musicians, make a record that takes you musically in the arms“.
I like reality, because it’s the only place where you can eat a steak
Stephan Eicher, at franceinfo
The tone of these songs composed naturally, in the open air, owes nothing to chance: “After three months of confinement, does he rememberI realized I was closer to my son’s dog or the ficus in the apartment than Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse“. And in this reality, the songs of Stephan Eicher simply feel good.
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to listen
Stephan Eicher, Ode (Barclay). Album available.