The cover of the "Music for Containment" solidarity compilation (Mille Feuilles label). - Illustration: Romain De La Haye-Sérafini

Stop looking for the original containment soundtrack! Thirty-three artists, from Arthur H to Rone, including Malik Djoudi or Etienne de Crécy, have composed, at Molécule's request, a compilation of unreleased tracks. The album, released this Wednesday, one of the most beautiful proposals of this period of life in a vacuum, is called Music for containment (Mille Feuilles label). The profits will be donated to the Fondation de France. “It goes without saying, we must participate, help the most disadvantaged as quickly as possible. Let us be united ”, explains Molécule, architect of the project.

“Romain (Delahaye, name for the town of Molécule) is a fairly honest guy, a nice guy. We are a bit helpless in this period. If we can help a little with our music and the profits donated. And in the end, the album is "tripping", it is made with guts, "comments Malik Djoudi. The artist named to the last Victoires de la Musique contributes with the elegiac Glitz .

"A beautiful, creative, simple gesture"

"It is not really a time conducive to creation, we are anxious, and then there is respect for all people who suffer. But Molécule contacted us by telling us about an interior journey, but also about music that gives great spaces. This compilation is a beautiful, creative, simple gesture, ”says Arthur H.

The songs are mostly between electro and ambient, that is to say a planing music, dreamy, sometimes worried, without words, or almost.

Voices are indeed heard, like on Die Hexe by Rebeka Warrior. Bertrand Burgalat offers him an inspired piano ballad on Improvisation to try a microphone . We also hear an elegant escape to the saxophone on Day 10 of confinement by Etienne Jaumet, hyperactive who had collaborated with the legend of techno Carl Craig. Old truck driver Alex Gopher's Stay Safe is another title-reference to confinement.

Arthur H, him, composed the silent Paris , inspired by the capital "and all those cities of France which are now calm, in an unexpected, surprising moment".

"We have an important role to play in this period"

Balancement du QI , signed Molécule, is a little more anxiety-provoking, oozing "the ordeal we are going through", as he says. “For me, music is not only there to entertain people. This project is introspective. We are at a turning point, where we are asking questions, ”he still analyzes.

"After this test, it is important not to come back as before," he continues. We have seen that the destruction of biodiversity puts us at the forefront of infection ”

Mam , a piece by Flavien Berger - with a river duration of 29 minutes - opens with the sound of the ocean surf, like an echo.

"It's a time when we have to find moments to regenerate," bounces Arthur H.

And Molécule to insist on the “manifest” side of this compilation. "This is the message I sent to artists, we have an important role to play in this period, we must be vigilant, speak out for scientists to propose a change, without being political," he concludes.

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