Despite the passage of time, the music of Alain Bashung, who died in 2009, crosses eras and fashions. Compulsory figure was written in complete freedom in 1983 by its lyricist and guitarist Pascal Jacquemin. Today, this anthology album comes out of the boxes. However, far from the commercial successes of vertigo of love orDare Josephinethe opus Compulsory figure, then considered Bashung’s new wave musical turn, was a failure.
I had absolutely no brakes compared to him and neither did he compared to me. Which made it very free. We were able to go into Dadaism, into madness, into chaos.
Pascal JacqueminLyricist
Forty years later, accompanied by a group of peerless musicians, Pascal Jacquemin is repeating this album which he is about to play again on stage. “Replay Imposed figure” is also the title of his project. “You just have to appropriate it without distorting it” as Basile explains so well on keyboards. Pascal’s son, who unlike his father has never seen Alain Bashung on stage, is also part of the project. Since 2017, this father/son duo has been composing uncompromising music with Gram_Pass.After the trace in 2019, the duo released a second album in October 2021 white as hell written during confinement.
To carry out this project, Pascal Jacquemin surrounded himself with a host of musicians who rubbed shoulders with and accompanied Alain Bashung on stage: Yann Péchin on guitar, Arnaud Dieterlen on drums, Bobby Jocky on bass. Will also be present among the guests of this exceptional evening: Chloé Mons, the former wife of Alain Bashung, the author-composer Fred Poulet or even Rodolphe Burger. Everyone will pay homage to him during this anniversary concert scheduled forEd&N of Sausheim (Haut-Rhin), December 1, the day Alain Bashung was born. The artist, who died at the age of 61, would have celebrated his 75th birthday this year.
“Replay Imposed Figure” at Espace Dollfus & Noack, Sausheim on December 1, 2022