Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem

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The 1980s were a period of silence, musically speaking, for Brigitte Fontaine and her partner Areski Belkacem. Far from the recording studio, she devoted herself to writing and the theatre. Always active, she appeared onstage in Quebec, she performed her play “Acte 2” in a grand tour of the French-speaking world, interpreted “Les Bonnes” by Jean Genet in Paris, and published a novel (Paso doble) as well as a collection of short stories (Nouvelles de l’exil). In 1984, she recorded a single (“Les Filles d’aujourd’hui”).

After having given a series of concerts in Tokyo and other large Japanese cities, she had to wait about five years for a French company to distribute her new album ” French corazon ” (written and composed in 1984 but released in 1988 to Japan). Having been broadcast notably on French television, the video for the single “Le Nougat”, directed by comics artist Olivia Tele Clavel, prepared the public for the big return of the singer to the French stage which commenced with a concert in 1993 at the Bataclan.

Brigitte Fontaine then became an incontrovertible figure in the French underground. In a half-dozen albums, the majority of which published by the independent label Saravah, Fontaine explored different poetic worlds without worrying about the charts. She renounced the use of rhyme, and using talk-over sometimes, she recorded, with very little means and often on two tracks, songs which addressed topics with humour or gravity, according to the mood, as various as death (Dommage que tu sois mort), life (L’été, l’été), alienation (Comme à la radio), madness (Ragilia), love (Je t’aimerai), or social injustice (C’est normal), the inequality of the sexes (Patriarcat) and racism (Y’ a du lard). However, she also knew how to make light of herself (L’Auberge (Révolution)).

Because they sail between pop, folk, electro and world music, the albums L’incendie and Vous et nous by the Areski-Fontaine duo figure among the most unclassifiable records of the French scene. Almost thirty years later, the international audience of these LPs (sinced re-edited for CD) is comparable to that of the cult record Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier, notably due to the enthusiastic remarks made by members of the band Sonic Youth in the Anglo-Saxon press.

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem

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