Everything we leave : the Tibz 2022 seems much more personal than that of Nation. The singer confirms. “I evoke everything I left behind during those four years. My Dordogne, my friends, my family. I went to Paris four years ago now. I’m talking about that, that route. The difference between living in the provinces, living in Paris. I’m talking about the brutality of the city.
All that’s left is me, a child, becoming an adult in this great jungle that is the world
An album we’ve been waiting for
Four and a half years passed between the first album and the second. The release of the album was pushed back several times. The fault, in part, to the health crisis but not only: “I’m quite a perfectionist, someone who gets tired very quickly, too. There were a few songs that weren’t right, I needed a perfect album that suits me perfectly and which goes in the state of mind in which I am today”, explains Tibz.
A duet with Joyce Jonathan, another with Jérémy Frérot
pretty little things that he sings with Joyce Jonathan on the album is a song that Tibz would have liked to write. “It’s a sweet and simple song as I like them, filled with lots of beautiful little words that are good for the soul”
The duet with Jérémy Frérot gave his name to the album Everything we leave : “I met Jérémy Frérot during a concert in the Basque Country. Still in the South-West: you can’t imagine how much we have an incredible strike force all the same (laughs). He’s a bit of a hedonist like me. He is very funny. And then, he is very good musically. He is an incredible force of proposal, he is someone with whom I like to play, sing, laugh, go out. He is someone that I love it. And one day, I made this song and we recorded it together”
A personal but solar album
When we listen Everything we leave, we undeniably feel a more personal touch : “It is also the result of long conversations with friends. I don’t write all my songs alone. I am accompanied, for example, by Sylvain (Duthu from Boulevard des Airs, editor’s note). I try to see, to ask a lot of opinions, to play songs and to go deep within myself. It’s a real introspection. When you make a song for yourself, it’s very hard and quite long. It is a rather personal album, but which remains solar. A little nostalgic and melancholy all the same”.
Change: “an autobiographical song in all respects”
“It’s a song that I wrote all at once following a breakup. In Paris, I realized that I was going out a little too much, that I was getting lost a little. _Paris can be dangerous_. I told myself that I had to change. Then I found this little air there. And then I unrolled the text on the sheet, my arm couldn’t stop.”
“Stop drugs and escapades, change to be stable”, sings Tibz. Not easy far from his land. The Périgourdin singer agrees but does not forget: “I was so cradled in a family cocoon filled with love that I have to be faithful to that. Stay square, straight in my boots. Paris has been complicated from time to time. When you are an artist, you are often in full questioning. We are often confronted with failure. It’s disturbing. _I’m very happy with this song_, if she talked to you, that’s great”.