INTERVIEW
Guests of the program Musique!, Raphaël and Adélaïde, two of the five members of Therapy Taxi, have decrypted some songs from their new and second exquisite album Cadavre , released Friday at Panenka Music. 16 titles in the provocative line of their first opus. But some texts, more engaged, also speak of politics or violence against women.
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"I hate the donors of lessons"
Written by Raphael, L'Equilibre stands out from the rest of the album, lamenting "the land that no longer feeds men", "the arrogance of the oligarchs" or "the faceless market that has corrupted us".
"It's something that I would have liked to do on Hit Sale but that is a somewhat dangerous exercise [...] The song engaged, it can be really snatch", considers the singer who adds: "It is necessary always pay attention to where you speak, how you speak, I hate the donors of lessons ... All these artists who at one time started giving great moral lessons to make their money in Switzerland ... "
But Raphael has finally achieved a satisfactory result: "I worked this text a lot [...] and I am very happy with this song because it finally says the things I want to say exactly as I do. I want to say it and indeed, it's very timely today. "
"I saw everything scroll under my eyes"
Engaged, Therapy Taxi is also in the song Noir , which speaks of the state of stupor in which are the women sexually assaulted in the street. "It was first a film in my head and then I put it down without too much difficulty because I could see everything in front of my eyes," says Raphael. He admits he had trouble formulating what he wanted to say, but was guided by "this willingness to convey the state of amazement, the trick of all those people who say 'why did not you shout? you did not run away? '' I really wanted that, in this song, one understands in what state of amazement you can find yourself at this moment ".
For Exquisite Corpse, Ilan and Vincent, who have accompanied the group on stage for several years, have joined Adelaide, Raphael and Renaud in the studio, making the group trio quintet. In April and May 2020, Therapy Taxi will tour the Zenith and be in concert on Europe 1 in January.