INTERVIEW
"It's like a bandage on your heart, this man who cries his life, we say to ourselves, 'Well, there's more than me'." It is perhaps Alain Souchon who best summed up, in his song Jonasz , the particular style of Michel Jonasz. At 72, "Mister Swing" proposes after eight years of absence, all monopolized by his acting career, eleven unreleased tracks in his 19th album: The Méouge, the Rhone, the Durance .
And this new opus will not lie Alain Souchon. As often, Michel Jonasz is an explorer of the intimate, anxious to put right words on deep feelings, difficult to understand, especially those left by lost love. "I'm a pretty modest person, who can put a veil on emotions or feelings that I may have trouble expressing." In writing, this veil of modesty can rise, "says the singer at the microphone of Patrick Cohen in It happened tomorrow on Europe 1
"I think I'm closer to my inner truth, deep and true, I think I'm closer to my being in my songs than in everyday life," continues the composer. Without being completely autobiographical, this album feeds on the author's own inner life. "A single love story in your life can make you write 19 albums," says Michel Jonasz. "I could not sing emotions or feelings that I do not know."
Gypsy music, French song, blues ... and samba
Musically Méouge, the Rhône, the Durance remains faithful to the universe of the singer, who found for the occasion two of his oldest accomplices, the pianist Jean-Yves D'Angelo and the drummer Manu Katché. "The sources of inspiration are the same since always," says Michel Jonasz. "What fed me was the Hungarian gypsy music that I listened to with my paternal grandparents, the French song that my parents loved and listened to all the time on the radio, and then blues and rock'n'roll. 'roll that made me want to make music. "
A tasty cocktail, to which is added a zest of samba and bossa, especially noticeable in the title Tropical Nights . "My inner groove fits very well with this music," smiled the singer.