Laura Cahen and Yelli Yelli, one girl, two daughters, mechanics and stars
Yelli Yelli (CryBaby) and Laura Cahen (Pias).
© CryBaby / Pias
By: Laurence Aloir
4 min
Publicity
Yelli Yelli
presents his new album
La Violence est Mécanique
(CryBaby 2021).
Half Kabyle, half Czech, born in the Parisian suburbs, 100% Maisons-Alfort, 200% queer,
Yelli Yelli
tells her story as a woman, a plural identity and her in-between. She is France and Algeria and neither one nor the other too. Yelli Yelli is in between where the orphan voices of memory machines are born. Yelli Yelli uprooted, hybrid and moving, sings the great story urgently to resow it.
Seed songs that bear fruit
, she seeks the dream material of the Kabylia of her ancestors to return to the colonial past of France, its bitter sweet land today.
Overflowing with words and stories, Yelli Yelli renews the creative collaboration of her 1st album with
Piers Faccini
.
Retired in his studio in the Cévennes, the multi-instrumentalist songwriter offers the musical envelope to the word Yelli Yelli.
This is how songs are born.
Yelli Yelli.
© Smith
But fuel remains to be found, a rhythmic engine, a pulsation of machines for the backbone of the disc.
Enter
Dj Chloé
and the conversation unfolds in a triptych, the acoustic heart remains, but the strings are covered with tender machines, electronic oscillating antennas.
The imagined tradition becomes lunar and the grandmother Kabyle dances in the sound space in cosmonaut outfit.
Yelli Yelli's word-sowing blooms in futuristic song, the soundtrack of a dystopian world in search of hope.
Yelli Yelli sings to understand and unfold temporalities and plural identities.
From the banal visible to the fantastic invisible, Yelli Yelli is a machine that roams space and time.
She walks, she protests, she calls out, she cries out for yesterday and today, for her dead and her living.
Yelli Yelli tracks played, extracts from the album
La Violence est Mécanique
Tassusmi →
watch the clip
Freedom →
watch the clip
Earth →
watch the clip
Nhifa.
Then
Laura Cahen
presents her new and 2nd album
Une fille
(Pias 2021) in the #SessionLive.
With her new album, Laura Cahen signs more than a second album, it's a manifesto.
For this second record, Laura has chosen to work with emeritus producer
Dan Levy
.
The two of them shaped the songs for the album during confinement, locked together in a water tower in Normandy.
This album is
autobiographical
and
altruistic
at the same time.
As a
woman
, Laura indulges in
introspection,
but also imagines the story of her fellow human beings.
On stage, she chooses to surround herself only with women, and the four clips accompanying the album each feature an artist.
Laura now refuses confinement.
Among his influences, Beth Gibbons, Aldous Harding, Bertrand Belin, Lhasa, Kate Bush, Alain Souchon, Björk, PJ Harvey, Anne Sylvestre… Anglo-Saxon structures, French words, endlessly renewed experiments: electronics are a perfect fit. 'pictorial writing, imbued with Laura's nineteenth-century romanticism, and its revealed timbre:
“I was looking for a new way to envision my voice, to get to the point, to drop the artifices, remove the masks .
"
Laura Cahen at RFI.
© Laurence Aloir / RFI
Titles by Laura Cahen, performed in the #SessionLive
La Jetée
Live RFI →
watch the clip
Dans mon Lit
from the album
Une Fille →
watch the clip
The Sun Lament
Live RFI
→
see the clip
Poppy
Live RFI → watch the clip
.
His
Fabien Mugneret
and
Mathias Taylor.
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