No doubt we will have a great time with Nicolas Gémus, Friday, June 17 at supper time, around the quiet Esplanade des Francos (corner Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Urbain). Smiling, he handles his guitar in all flexibility, and his sympathetic melodies have what it takes to stop there a little. But without really wanting to come back to it: there is a difference between lightness and vacuity, and the second album of Gémus surfs on not much. Even cleverly. “As Gainsbourg says so well / Between your kidneys / I wish I could tell you that I’m coming back”, he sings, happy with his frankly easy formula. It’s at this level, not bad, not striking, despite the realization of Éloi Painchaud, whose meticulous work makes this already too smooth performer even cleaner. Here and there, we are touched, particularly in Song of a son to his father, but this welcome destitution does not last. Very quickly, we lose the thread and the interest in Gémus, which frays. Not nourishing, but digestible: it is necessary in a festival.
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