INTERVIEW
In 1902, composer Richard Strauss, tired of themes borrowed from mythology or history, decided to compose a symphony centered on his own family life. "A triple fugue will tell dad, mom and baby," he said provocatively in the press at the time. It will be the imposing Sinfonia Domestica. 118 years later, Sébastien Tellier has chosen to follow the same path with his album Domesticated , initially planned for April but whose release was postponed in late May by the health crisis.
A title chosen by Sofia Coppola
Domesticated? A title chosen by her friend the director Sofia Coppola and which summarizes wonderfully the intentions of the artist: to realize an ode to the domestic life, while evoking its thousand and one small worries.
"Sofia found in one word everything I was trying to say with a record," explains the singer with the pepper and salt beard at the microphone of Philippe Vandel, in Culture Medias on Europe 1. "It is an album on the human condition, but also on my life. I was a crazy dog, and then I got married, I had two children and I took on household tasks in the face, diapers, milk packs… ", joking he.
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A collaboration with the PNL sound engineer
On the cover, Sébastien Tellier appears surrounded by latex gloves used to wash the dishes. But paradoxically enough, the purpose of this album, centered on domestic tasks therefore, is counterbalanced by its languid and soaring musical atmosphere. "It's a lesson in life. You really have to look for beauty everywhere," insists the singer. "I wanted to do something very refined, Auto-Tune was too rude, not precise. I ended up associating several types of effects. I first recorded my voice before producing the music."
The sound plenitude of this opus also owes a lot to Nicolas Chataing, alias "NK.F", the man behind the sound of PNL. "It's really magic. When a piece passes through his hands, it's not the same anymore. It's shimmering, with mountains, rivers ...", enthuses Sébastien Tellier. In short, half an hour of musical escape that we will take more pleasure to listen to in our bath, for example, than by recurring pans or by vacuuming.