After being awarded a Victoire de la Musique in the “Male Revelation” category, Raphaël and Théo Herrerias, the two brothers from Saint-Etienne, reissue “Les Forces Contraires” subtitled “La mort et la lumière”.
– DR: Debure, Gregory
This reissue is the second act of a human and musical adventure initiated in September 2020 with the release of Terrenoire’s first album. In April 2021, as health tensions take precedence over cultural influence, the two brothers begin to imagine more luminous and danceable songs. The titles “It’s going to be fine” and “Until my last breath”, have become, unwittingly, hymns to successive confinements.
Raphaël and Théo, who grew up in the popular district of Terrenoire, in the suburbs of Saint-Étienne, never considered an existence outside of music. Both were influenced by an uncle who looked like an artistic model. It was he who taught Raphaël the guitar at a very young age, now 31, while Théo, 24, was fascinated at the age of fourteen by computer composition, discovering the passion of a lifetime. However, age difference obliges, their collaboration really took off when the youngest joined the eldest in Paris in 2017. Two characters too, as Raph nicely puts it: “I’m more earthy and Théo aerial.” The artistic meeting of these temperaments, not necessarily fusional, but certainly complementary, gives birth to these sensitive and extraordinary songs.
They collaborate with Bernard Lavilliers on the title “I hold from her”, a cry of love common to their hometown, Saint-Étienne. This attachment to their territory, the two brothers display it proudly in the opening “60 cliffs” and sweats implicitly throughout this exciting second episode. Not to mention, of course, “L’infini” which has been lighting up the airwaves since the beginning of winter. VS
The two accomplices have only one quest, that of beauty, that which “heals people through the intimate story.”
You can find them on tour throughout France, notably on May 10 in Paris, June 11 in Saint-Denis, June 24 in Chamarande, July 9 in Aix-Les-Bains…