Before coming back soon with a new album, the Kyo group is celebrating its 20th anniversary by releasing a box set that offers the group's five studio albums for the first time on vinyl.
On this occasion, its members Ben and Flo reflect on the sudden success they experienced in 2002, with the release of their album "Le Chemin".
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Their album
Le Chemin
marked a whole generation, which still continues to sing on its songs at the end of the evening.
The group Kyo celebrates the 20 years of the release of its first album with a compliant box set its five studio albums (
Kyo
in 2000,
Le Chemin
in 2003,
300 lesions
in 2004,
L'Equilibre
in 2014 and
Dans la peau
in 2017), for the first time all available in vinyl.
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Because, one can tend to forget it, Kyo explodes in 2003 and passes then on all the TV channels and all the radio stations.
"It was nine times a day, I don't know if some people haven't invented ten a day," Flo laughs about radio broadcasts.
“At the time, we were living intensely and we thought it was crazy,” Ben adds.
"It was only with time that we understood what had happened."
But the two members of the group also remember the criticisms which then fell on the group, reproaching it in particular for not being rock enough.
"When you spend a lot, a lot, you can quickly get people drunk," Flo analyzes.
"France lacks successful rock groups"
For him, the identity of Kyo has always been multiple and he claims this mixture of genres.
"We always had this kind of uninhibited thing of being able to listen to Jeff Buckley and Cabrel, 70s rock, American pop productions, and metal."
A synthesis that Ben notes with a smile: "We listened to System of a Down, Francis Cabrel and the Disney classics."
It is finally on stage that Kyo will prove that he was indeed a rock band.
Without calming the attacks of the purists.
"The fact that we used rock codes, but also metal bands that we really liked, that annoyed."
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Kyo regrets that even today there are too few popular French rock groups.
"We know very well who they are, we can count them on our fingers," says Ben.
"There has always been a lack of successful bands."
Of Kyo's lightning ascent, he nevertheless takes two great pride.
"We were a bridge for some young people to other rock artists," he rejoices.
"But even more, what's neat is the number of teens and kids who took to the drums or the guitar. It was something that was not done too much at the time and that, c is really cool. "