World music

Between circus and hammam: Temenik Electric and Léonie Pernet

Leonie Pernet and Temenik Electric.

© Estelle Hanania / Xavier Lours

By: Laurence Aloir

5 mins

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Our 1st guest is

For 10 years,

 blurring the lines with its epic pop, its Arabian-rock and its electro-oriental trances.

2 EPs, 3 albums and 300 concerts later, the Marseille group led by

is still a combo freed from clichés and ready-to-think.

A rock sensation that is revealed more in the mists of his latest opus.

With this new album,

 goes further, or closer, depending on the point of view, sketching out a sound geography like these neighborhoods nestled in the heart of megalopolises, these maze of streets with familiar and foreign scents at the same time. , to melodies escaping from inner courtyards.

In these spaces, we are here and a little elsewhere too.

It could be Little Italy, Little Odessa, Little Spain or Little Syria, but in the hot vapors and eucalyptus-laden air, Temenik Electric has swept aside the community question to explore the world of intimacy.

Dive into the big bath of Little Hammam.

Mehdi Haddjeri at RFI.

© Laurence Aloir/RFI

Tracks played, extracts from the album 

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I am not an angel

 is a song that evokes the theme of the stigmatization of a category of people.

People for whom attention, an outstretched hand, would surely have changed their life trajectory.

I'm not an angel, but I'm not a monster either.

Barkany

Knight

Temenik Electric to read on RFI Musique

Then, we welcome

in the

for the release of her new album

 (InFiné).

Léonie Pernet and Jean-Sylvain Le Gouic at RFI.

© Laurence Aloir/RFI

Since 2018 and the release of her 1st album

, one thing seems certain: it will now be necessary to count on the multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Léonie Pernet to deconstruct pop made in France, to mix it, to densify it, to add its touch of genius and its touch of melancholy.

Hailed by critics,

 is carried on stage by Léonie behind his drums, microphone and synthesizers during a tour that will take him to France, England, Germany, NYC and Japan (2018-2019).

In 2019, the acoustic EP

was released  ;

she begins to write her 2nd opus and at the same time composes film music (

by Simon Filliot, H24 Arte).

Two years later, assisted by the artistic director and mixer

(ex-member of the Juveniles group),

 gave birth to the demanding Le Cirque de Consolation.

 It is with these words that Léonie Pernet responds when asked what idea underlies this fictional place in which she invites us to join her, Le Cirque de Consolation.

Léonie lifts the veil on her voice, more moving than ever, and offers us songs with racy and generous texts.

11 tracks including 3 instrumentals, dialoguing in directions as rich as they are varied.

African, oriental percussion, synthesizers, drum machine or drums;

Léonie mixes genres and instruments with incredible ease.

From Hard Billy, a rebellious hymn under techno influence, to Les Chants de Maldoror, a club and dancing song carried by feverish darboukas, to the overwhelming "A rebours" and its afro-electronic rocker,

Léonie Pernet insolently inhabits borders and imposes her unique and singular style.

The producer questions the links between pop music, African cultures and electronic music (Interieur Négro), the neo-classical (Le Cirque de Consolation, Dandelion), or the place of the voice, whether human or synthetic as in the atmospheric Vowel.

The voice, because it is by now affirming hers that the young thirty-year-old reveals her flaws to us, but also her "deep hope".

Corporeality and gender, addiction, racism, the friability of our lives, but also love are all themes that run through the Cirque de Consolation and its solar melancholy.

The Cirque de Consolation marks for the singer "an individual reconstruction,

"

© InFiné

Léonie Pernet composed the original music for the

series , broadcast on ARTE and arte.tv.

Inspired by real events, "H24 - 24 heures" in the life of a woman is a manifesto series that reports on violence against women on a daily basis.

Based on an original idea by

and

, who are making their first fiction here, the series offers 24 daring short films, based on the texts of 24 European authors, interpreted by 24 exceptional actresses.

Performed titles

- Mon Amour Tu Bois Trop

, Live RFI

- Le Cirque de Consolation

, from the album Le cirque de consolation

- The Songs of Maldoror

, Live RFI.

Musicians

- Léonie Pernet

, vocals, percussion

- Jean-Sylvain Le Gouic,

machinery.

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