“Alain Chamfort produced by Sébastien Tellier”, a tasty meeting at the top to enjoy before the final album from the author of “Paradis”

Alain Chamfort, who is preparing to publish his latest album this spring, offers himself as an amuse-bouche an enchanted interlude of four songs produced in the company of the free electron Sébastien Tellier. A very successful EP which comes out this Friday.

Six years after his album The Disorder of Things (2018), in which the eternal young man had enchanted critics and audiences by assuming his age and his wrinkles with class, Alain Chamfort announces his return. Impermanencepresented as “the final album which will crown a recording career spanning more than fifty years”, is expected on March 22.

In the meantime, and as an appetizer, he published an EP in collaboration with the author of The Ritournellesoberly baptized Alain Chamfort produced by Sébastien Tellier. Four titles that flow naturally as the tandem strikes a perfect artistic harmony, between the fragile voice of one and the sumptuous cinematic orchestrations of the other.

End of the world and ode to the feminine

Thus, the first single from this summit meeting, Ice Whiskey, is a potential hit with its delicate end-of-the-world text, its rhythmic scansion, its splendid strings and its little saxophone riff. “Do you feel the calm before the storm / The silence too deep to be honest”, asks Chamfort, “Do you feel the calm before the defeat / Sad party favors at the end of the party / A scent in the air of the last hour / This perfect moment before the comet / The song of the birds which suddenly stops”.

Feminine, an ode to the feminine skillfully shot by someone who has always embraced his feminine side, is the other strong point of this EP. In his particularly fragile and weathered voice, Chamfort notes with crazy elegance the feminist advances post #MeToo: “It is always difficult to turn the page / For every blink of an eyelash, a war raged / But my daughter, courage / For the world wakes up more beautiful every morning / For the world turns out to be more beautiful in your hands”he sings, nestled in the heart of a poignant whirlwind of violins and luminous choirs.

A tour between concert and secrets

The sulfur in our skin And Flesh complete this EP with which the duo seems above all to have had fun. For the record, it was Sébastien Tellier who expressed the desire to work with Alain Chamfort last spring. The latter proposed ideas, on texts by his faithful lyricist Pierre-Dominique Burgaud, which the bearded dandy completed and arranged with the complicity of his musicians Adrien Soleiman (saxophone/keyboards) and Louis Delorme (drums), in the famous Parisian Motorbass studio of the late Philippe Zdar (of Cassius).

In addition to this aperitif delicacy and the feast that is announced with an album promised to be final in the spring (and which will not be produced by Sébastien Tellier), Alain Chamfort is going on tour this January with a unique show, between concert and secrets .

Accompanied by his pianist, he will draw from his repertoire of classics and little-known titles, and, in the company of his accomplice the host Valli, he will engage in the game of live interview, looking back on his fifty years of singing, his highs , his stockings, and his work with Jacques Dutronc, Claude François and Serge Gainsbourg but also the complicity with his favorite authors Jacques Duval and Pierre-Dominique Burgaud.

“Alain Chamfort produced by Sébastien Tellier” (BMG) comes out Friday January 12.

Alain Chamfort will be in concert on June 6 at Point Éphémère (Paris) but until then he will engage in a traveling “musical conversation” from January 16 in Issoudun, then January 20 in Granville, January 24 and 28 in Paris (Théâtre de l’Œuvre, sold out), January 26 in Mainvilliers, February 15 in Marseille, February 23 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, March 26 in Paris (still at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre), etc. .