the big musical gap?

In “Tout Public” on Friday September 27, 2024, the comic strip “War in Gaza” by Joe Sacco, the release of the album “Hypersensible” by Gringe, and the concerts of Mylène Farmer at the Stade de France.

The American cartoonist Joe Sacco, in France on the occasion of the America Festival in Vincennes, goes to the microphone of “Tout public” to talk about his new comic book, War in Gaza (Futuropolis). The author is not his first work on the Palestinian people, after the two volumes of Palestine (Palestine : an occupied nation and Palestine: in the Gaza Strip) And Gaza 1956, on the fringes of History. This time he delivers the view of an outside observer angry at international inaction.

The author denounces unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism, a term according to him “instrumentalized“to silence people who characterize the conflict between Israel and Palestine as “genocide”. He particularly attacks the way certain stories in the United States are received, which he believes hinders freedom of expression, as was illustrated during the “repressions” on campuses in American universities.

Rapper, actor and author Gringe presents his second solo album Hypersensitivewhere he addresses his hypersensitivity and all the themes that arise from it: mental health, its particular relationship “to time, to the world, to others.” Introspection is a driving force for creation for the artist: “This project has to be the first to teach me about myself, and once I get started, I throw myself headlong into writing”he explains.

However, the album does not only address the question of the intimate, the artist wanting to stay in touch with the themes of today’s society, particularly with pieces like Lead where one who describes himself as having “a natural socialist heritage”denounces police violence, inspired by the death of Nahel.

A vocation of rap to tell and denounce a social reality, this is in the eyes of Gringe what embodies the group Fonky Family, whose album If God wants… is his “bedside album.” The legendary collective of Marseille rappers is releasing today a best-of of 17 tracks, most of them taken from their two cult albums, If God wants… And Street Art.

Gringe’s musical tastes do not stop at rap, however, since during the concerts given at the Stade de France which conclude the tour of the icon of French song Mylène Farmer, he shares with us that he was a big fan of the singer as a teenager.

The one on the other hand for whom the passion for the star has not dried up is our guest Bastien Collignon, a fan since a very young age and who has dedicated a podcast to her, “Mylène Farmer: story of…”. It looks back on the evolution of the singer’s career, and how the perception of it on the part of the profession and the public has metamorphosed, gradually gaining legitimacy. The latter has also been able to prove itself a pioneer on themes that are now very current, such as gender issues or transidentity, with the songs Without counterfeiting Or XXLwhich date from 1987 and 1995 respectively.

An artist to rediscover at the end of her NEVERMORE tour, through Bastien Collignon’s podcast.

A program presented by Matteu Maestracci, and with the participation of Yann Bertrand, journalist in the culture department of franceinfo.