Where Willows Don't Weep
is the second solo album by Adrien Gallo, frontman of BB Brunes.
The artist wrote his new songs over a six-year period.
Some were inspired by the death of his father in 2012. The birth of his children in 2019 pushed Adrien Gallo to make the album a reality.
Adrien Gallo recorded the album the old-fashioned way, with a string quintet in particular: “It was a chance to be able to do it.
It creates rough edges and something warm.
"
The “baby rocker” has grown up.
Adrien Gallo is now 32 years old on the clock.
“The past thirties require more requirements and work.
It's a different relationship to things ”, tells us the artist whose second solo album,
Where the willows do not cry
, is coming out this Friday.
In addition to the pieces signed for his group, the BB Brunes, the singer worked on these songs "in the intimate style" for six years.
“I wrote several while thinking of my father [director Jean-Pierre Gallo], who died in 2012. They were close to my heart, I wanted to release them one day or another.
"
"Becoming a father has turned my life upside down"
In 2019, he himself became a dad of twins. “It turned my life upside down. I was busy on this album when they were born. I wanted him to be the link between my father and my children, that through this record, they meet him a little. "
The song
Where the willows don't cry
operates this genealogical bridge. It opens with the babbling of the little ones and, in the words, Adrien Gallo addresses his father born in 1934 (“You had the art and the manner of making forget the tracker, all the war, all the war, everything in the back is cold ”). A father who had introduced him to René Char and Jacques Prévert and who was himself a poet in his spare time. “I read a lot of the poems he wrote towards the end of his life,” says the singer. I wanted to be at his height, in quotes. I set the bar high enough for the texts. "
Another paternal influence is felt on the album, that of the French song which accompanied his life.
“He listened to artists like Georges Brassens or Barbara a lot, these pillars who still have a modernity.
I listened to them a lot too.
»On some tracks, we also think of Anne Sylvestre or William Sheller, inspirations just as claimed and explaining the nostalgic and melancholy tone emanating from the album.
"Asperities and something warm"
This impression is reinforced by the “old-fashioned” production of the opus, notably with a string quintet - two violins, a cello, a viola and a double bass - in the studio.
“It was a chance to be able to do it, because it costs more than simple programming on computer, underlines the artist.
I wrote the piano parts, then the strings and I started to write groped arrangements.
It creates rough edges and something warm.
"
The softness immediately imposes itself on the audience, enveloping and caressing from title to title - including the very beautiful
Les Jolies things
and
Les clochettes de mai
, performed in duet with Vanessa Paradis.
In the frenzy and chaos of this return, it's an album that does good to the soul.
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