Nokar Zahra De - Ahmad Ali Hakim Manqabat
Bazbaz's new album is called Bazbaz Café.
- Hello, Camille. - Hi.
Why Bazbaz Café?
Was the album written in café terraces?
I think cafés are mystic, ancient places
where people meet
and share their blues.
We go there to not stay at home.
You go to the café and see if you're there.
Cafés are beautiful places
that have inspired me.
They're observation points
for a creator, an artist?
I believe a café is the number one observation point.
Was there a starting point?
No. I'm probably activated by my inner clocks.
At some point... it just has to go out.
I did this album during the damn attacks.
Maybe there's something subliminal about the café.
I wanted a very sweet cover,
where I kiss a woman I used to love very much.
A real kiss.
I wanted an anti-violence sort of thing,
something different from the inflated images
with photoshopped people.
I wanted to do the cover in a café,
something soft and sweet.
It was like, "Give me a kiss, as opposed to a world that fucks us".
At the same time, the lyrics can be quite dark.
Well, yeah. I'm a regular person.
It's not because I can sing about dark stories
that I can't have fun.
The blues is dark
like many other genres, in fact. There's a Cuban genre,
the son.
It's all about heartbreaking love stories.
But they can be sweet nonetheless.
It's important that we are able to laugh about it
and joke around my songs.
You started working with Melvil Poupaud?
Yes.
What was it like "working" with him?
We did work together. It was actual work, and...
I like my music to combine what's nice with what's useful.
Being with people that I like
allows me to create something coherent.
Melvil is someone I really like.
And so we started working on our PCs, with our own little rules.
The mind is what counts. Who cares about the gear?
Although I hadn't
seen him in a long time, he showed up with his mind, his eyes
and his amazing ear.
He shook everything up,
especially my convictions as a songwriter.
What convictions did he shake up?
I'm just a lousy bluesman, you know.
Somehow,
that's what my work exudes.
And so he... I like electro music, too.
It's not just blues.
There's a bit of...
I like all genres.
So, anyway, he shook things up.
And his brother Yarol came to put...
some order. - The producer.
Yarol Poupaud is the guitarist of FFF, among other artists.
He's Johnny Hallyday's guitarist! That's insane!
My friend became Johnny's guitarist.
Johnny's our legend.
What do you have in common? Groove?
Some kind of rock n' roll, I think.
Maybe the way we enjoy life, nightlife.
The way we kid around...
- All that. - It's a mental thing.
Life is short, you know.
You have to treat yourself to good things,
good people.
Yarol's been a friend of mine since I was 20.
We truly know each other.
He and I have been doing stupid things forever.
Camille Bazbaz's album: Bazbaz Café.
We talked about the way you created the songs in the album.
It features many artists: Chet, the Poupaud brothers,
Bertrand Belin and Lamartine.
There are two poems in Cliché:
L'Homme and Le Vallon, both by Lamartine.
One day, I saw this pamphlet on the ground.
It said: "I'm walking down the darkest road".
I was walking down the darkest road myself.
I saw that pamphlet...
and I thought, "That's just genius!"
I understood the meaning right away.
When you've been abandoned in every possible way,
by your girl, etc.,
you wander, you hang around.
The darkest road is all the dangers...
to which a regular punk guy is exposed, you see?
Excess, traps, bad choices, etc.
I thought the sentence
belonged to some kind of alternative band.
The pamphlet was in a squat, so...
Eventually, I found out it was Lamartine's.
The thing is, I adopted it, I adapted it,
I add words of my own, and decided to quote him.
Lamartine is a cool dude.
I have to admit.
It's pretty magical that written stuff...
But then again, that's what art is about.
When it's good, it cuts across time.
You have an amazing ability,
since your musical references are mostly Anglo-Saxon...
We mentioned the blues. Blues are not exclusively French.
I'm talking about the genre.
Sorry, I have to interrupt you or I'll forget.
In this album there's Chet, with whom I wrote a couple of lyrics,
Bertrand Belin, who wrote the song Attention les filles...
Last track of the album.
There's also Brigitte, with whom I sing Un baiser.
That is to mention the girls were there, too.
It's cool
that we got to sing that song together.
Let's discuss your way of grooving in French.
Your musical references
do not come from France.
It's that soul, rhythm and blues, blues side.
You manage to make the French language sound. Not easy.
Is the secret in the lyrics? Or the way you sing?
It's so nice to hear that.
I'm incredibly flattered because...
I don't know. It's probably the curly hair.
That's a good answer. Works for me.
You have curls like many groovers.
About the live mode...
Only two people.
Fabrice Colombani at the drums, and yourself at the piano.
Do you like the intimate atmosphere?
What's the advantage?
I get to be in contact with people, ultimately.
That surprises me.
We're face to face. I make intimate songs.
- So, face to face. - Sort of.
Even though I normally sing with my eyes shut.
So, there. Fabrice is in the album, too,
at the drums.
I don't know.
It's anti-bling.
- Simplicity. - Yeah. It's quite raw.
- Thanks a lot, Camille. - Thank you.
Bazbaz Café is Bazbaz's new album.
Subtitles: Eclair Media
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