Behind Fakear, there has always been Théo Le Vigoureux, a musician who for his fifth album, Talismanhad only one wish: “Making it more militant, more combative, which also meant putting words to it, really talking about it… My music simply takes on a more militant tone“.
And if his music has always embraced nature, carried by very organic and airy sounds, he needed a strong voice. This voice, on the song Odyssey, it is that of Camille Etienne, a young environmental activist with an inexhaustible activism, and inspiring for Fakear. “Already, the situation got so bad that it started to be something that I defended in my personal life more and more strongly, he explainsand finally my meeting and my friendship with Camille also really inspired me because her, the way she has of defending these values and carrying out this fight, I find that very refreshing.“
Before it was a message, something that was implicit in my music, even if I didn’t want to make a fight of it because I was afraid of being reduced to that.
Personal rediscovery
Musically, Talisman is a breath, as we appreciate them in a daily life saturated with worries and anger. It is no coincidence that the album also marks the return of Fakear to his original label, Nowadays Records, after several years at the major label, at Universal. The musician actually found himself. “I feel like I’ve been eyeing the whole English scene for a long time, trying to look like my idols, Four Tet, Bonobo or Floating Points and finally I realize that, first of all, it’s is vain, and then it’s not me, he exclaims. There is a sort of quest for identity that has come to an end, like when you are in college and you look for yourself by finding models in the people you admire.“
There was this thing that had been in my music for a long time and I feel like on this album I finally found the answer, which is to stop looking for myself
Back on the road, Fakear and his team decided to no longer produce derivative products, to start thinking of touring as a more ecologically virtuous activity. The example, just like the music, to amplify an emergency message.
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fakear, Talisman (Nowadays Records). Album available. On tour.