- Kemmler is releasing its new album Gray this Friday, in an evolutionary way, seven titles will be unveiled at first, and seven others will follow.
- The Marseille rapper in this new album his strong family ties.
- He returns for 20 minutes to his confinement period.
Marseille rapper Kemmler is releasing a new album, Gray, on Friday, two years after the release of the first, Rose. He chose to release it in an evolutionary way, with seven first titles, then seven others which will follow soon. He returns to this period of confinement "complicated personally" but "positive professionally", and hopes to quickly find his fans.
You are releasing a new album on Friday, two years after the first, why did you wait so long?
I chose to make a music where I really tell what I live, I tell the things that I know. I assume that if you really tell what you are going through, if you tell things two or three months apart, there is not much that changes. Going around in circles is a shame, and I think it's a bit of a joke in people's mouths. So really I want to live stuff. Each album that I'm going to do, it's really going to be a kind of marker in time, it's going to represent a part of my life, and my current mood at a given moment.
What has changed in two years?
Many things. My music and my life are very linked, I give a lot of time to the professional part. I released an album called Rose two years ago. Following that, I had a lot of record companies who were interested in me, so I signed with Universal music, with Def Jam. I started writing for artists, Shy'm, LEJ, I even found myself writing for Faudel, it's totally improbable. I find myself much less seeing, my family, my friends, being often in Paris, abroad. Many things change, you meet new people, there are things that are created with the new people you work with, because you are living more or less the same thing. Friendships are formed, maybe even stronger than your long-standing friendships. There are a lot of things that change, and that's what I say in the album.
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- Kemmler 😒 (@ Ke2mler) May 18, 2020Is it hard to see things change like that?
It's hard because you have people who give you these thoughts and when it's people you love, it's necessarily more difficult to hear because you know it's true. You know it's true, and even when you're there they feel like you're not really there; I'm here but I'm going to get 17 phone calls, I'm going to talk about the job, then we're going to talk but I'm still thinking about the job thing.
It's more my friends who blame me. Sometimes you have thoughts to winnow like "oh it's ok, the star is coming" or things like that. It touches me because I feel that a shift is taking place. My parents don't necessarily blame me, I try to be with my parents once or twice a week. But when you are in Paris, then you go to Marrakech, you find yourself not seeing them too much. Not to mention the schedules, I live out of step.
To make music?
Yeah totally, I sleep at 7 a.m., I wake up at 3 p.m. It's a rhythm that suits me, it's 4 p.m. I'm enjoying the sun, the day, I really start when the sun starts to fall. I feel good. If we went from Rose to Gray, it is precisely because I have perhaps a little darker ideas, at night it is easier to think so.
Why are you having some dark ideas at the moment?
This is what I live, I couldn't manage to wonder what made me like that, and these are perhaps the questions that I ask myself during the album, but I feel that it happens . The stuff you always wanted starts to happen and then you say "yeah but maybe I don't want that in the end", so you question yourself.
Did you have to gamber a lot during confinement?
Music is a passion and I was lucky to continue my passion. I was hyperactive, it allowed me to speak more with the public than I have today. It allowed people to discover me. It was a professionally positive, but humanly complicated, period. Because you see even less your family, your loved ones. I am hypertactile, not kissing my mother is hyperdifficult, finding myself not to see her. So yeah you have gamberries. All the apartments I have had, I try to be not too far from them. Because I have a very strong bond. I am very family, very very family so it was very difficult for me.
What do you get from these family ties?
It is essential for me, I think that without that I can neither write nor continue to do what I love. It is the essence of my music, of my life. I have a very strong bond with the family, it is felt throughout the album I have many titles or my family comes into play, for a phrase, or for an entire song itself. Besides, it's very new to me, I always had a modesty. When I started music my parents knew I was doing it but it wasn't my job so I didn't want them to listen. I say bad words when in front of my parents I don't speak badly. Today is my job so anyway it's in the eyes of everyone, on the networks, my parents saw it. There in this album I let go, I made a song for my mother, I talk a lot about my brother, my father, my mother.
My parents never saw me on stage, the day before confinement I had a concert in Aix. They had to come, it was the first time, but in the end there is this thing. My parents are 70 years old so I told him it was dead, it was hard for my mother to say to myself "ah this is the first time that I have been able to see my son and I cannot". I made a real advancement to remove this modesty barrier between my parents and my work.
How to maintain this link with fans without concerts?
It was difficult to learn that, when I released Rose I did not tour. The music is starting to work better now, so this was going to be the occasion of my first tour. I hope it can be done anyway. It's a bit of a dream to tour, meet people, and there we started to do the first concerts and confinement. In Aix, it was the first time that I met my real audience, it made a funny feeling, it was the first time that people knew my words. So it was a bit difficult to learn that. But it allowed me to be even more present on the networks to keep this contact, and then there were lives where you meet people. There is no such human contact, it is a bit difficult but we adapt.
And you made the internet users participate on the song Confinez moi avec elle…
The sound went into the album, I credited all the people who gave words in the title. So it allows a part of my audience to be present on the album, physically I find it funny. It maintains a form of bond with the people who follow me, it's cool. Like on social media, I really try to be like I am with my friends in life. There is a strong bond between them and me.
You have decided to release the new Gray album in several installments, why?
Yes, it's going to be an evolving album, we wanted to do something original so it's an album that will come gradually. Basically there it is the beginning of the album which leaves, the album will evolve in several phases. When I released Rose , after two weeks the question was "when is the next album". Quiet guys, I just released an album. There I said to myself why not make an album last in time. Music is consumed too quickly, it has changed too much. It will allow them to appreciate each song at its fair value, I will already release seven songs, we will meet in a month, a month and a half to release the next 7, without specific date. We tell ourselves that as long as the album lives, we continue. I find it funny, it changes habits a bit.
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You participated in the first episode of OM Sessions, then in the title "OM, La Compo", do you have a particular link with the club?
It's crazy for me, because I'm a real total fan of OM. I am sick, as much I have hindsight for music, as much for football I have no hindsight. I was really a fan of the first hour. The day they contacted us for OM Sessions was crazy. I brought my father back during the shooting, we were at the Commanderie it was crazy for my father who has been a fan since the 70s. I try to watch all the games with him, if I'm in Marseille I can't watch a game without my father. We got on really well with the OM media team so they called me for one day to comment on a match in place of Jean-Marc Ferreri who was not there, it's whew I found to comment on a match when when we are on the PlayStation it is we who comment with my brother. It was crazy.
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