"Civilization": Orelsan navigates between musical genres and offers five-star featurings

Orelsan has chosen the sight (“Regarde”) to punctuate the introduction of his hard-hitting

, an extract from the long-awaited

, unveiled this Friday, November 19.

But if by his moralizing posture and pushing open doors the rapper from Caen divides the critics, the production of the project, signed Skread and Phazz, his longtime acolytes, nevertheless has the merit of offering a daring musical palette.

So let's focus on hearing instead and “listen”.

Skread behind the decks

Orelsan has always loudly proclaimed his eclectic musical tastes.

“Weird electro, Kanye West, The Weeknd, Tyler the Creator, Adele because I'm a fan of piano vocals, and Lana Del Rey for her melancholy.

I have hyper-broad tastes, he confided at the end of October in an interview with Le Parisien.

In France, I love Gazo.

"

And it is the influence of the latter, the precursor of drill France, which is found on the first piece of

 called

.

Soft piano and snare drum with irregular rhythm, characteristic of the musical genre coming straight from Chicago… Orelsan surfs on the style in vogue in French rap at the moment and revamps it in Caen style.

Like his very varied musical inspirations, the rest of the rapper's project from Caen is rich in surprises. He reconnects with his taste for river songs, devoid of refrain in

, tries his hand at pop songs with

 or re-appropriates disco in

. Behind this clever musical mix, hides the discreet but omnipresent Skread on the decks, accompanied on the more electro tracks by the Lyon producer Phazz.

By marrying rap with house, afro or French song, Skread - famous for his work with Booba, Rohff or even Diam's on the famous

- proves once again in this fourth album that his complicity with Orelsan is capable of giving birth to most creative and daring pieces.

Outreach across the Atlantic

In twelve years of career Orelsan has had time to shape his image in particular by offering himself the big names in music: Stromae, Nekfeu, Damso… But the rapper may multiply his collaborations, he is insatiable. Passionate about rap and music from very diverse backgrounds, the Caen rapper is a real fan of US rap, especially The Neptunes, - an American producer duo famous for their collaborations with the top of world pop - of which he also mentions the name in the documentary

.

So it's a bit like a kind of symbolic prophecy that Orelsan signs in

 a featuring with the tandem formed by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo on the title

. “They are on the album, it's crazy! In my first songs, I quoted them, we were huge fans with Skread, it's my favorite group and they had a sick impact on current music, ”Orelsan told Le

.

If for the moment the rapper has decided not to reveal more information on the why and how of this unusual collaboration, the duo's latest production for the track

 by American rapper A $ AP Ferg gives the level of the achievement achieved by Orelsan.

So, after the presence of Ron Thal on

, Dizzee Rascal in 

, The Neptunes come to complete the loop, or almost, for those who have for their ultimate dream a featuring with Eminem.

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