{"title":"Water Music","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"loutrebleu","title":"L'Outrebleu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for...\". These words from Pierre Soulages, an artist with an unquenchable thirst for research and exploration who cultivated one of the most beautiful paradoxes - seeking light in the darkness - could have been spoken by Frédéric Lo. A never-satiated music lover, melodist, lyricist, producer and arranger, he has long since developed a gift for ubiquity and a talent for finding himself where he is least expected. In 2004, he became Daniel Darc's \"resurrector\", releasing with him the admirable record Crèvecœur, one of those records that never gets old. Some twenty years later, Frédéric Lo signed the album \u003cem\u003eThe Fantasy Life Of Poetry and Crime \u003c\/em\u003ewith Englishman Peter Doherty, an instant classic. It was during this period of lockdown that Frédéric Lo began work on\u003cem\u003e L'Outrebleu\u003c\/em\u003e. A period during which Frédéric was forced to abandon the frenzy that seems to have always guided him. On \u003cem\u003eL'Outrebleu\u003c\/em\u003e, he took care of almost everything. Could it have been otherwise for a record that is perhaps his most intimate, a record in perfect balance between \"gentle sadness and melancholy joy\"? A solo record indeed, but one that would not have seen the light of day without the alter-ego François Delabrière, guitarist François Pioggio, singer Gaëlle Kerrien, ex-collaborator of Yann Tiersen, Pete Doherty of The Libertines, Robin Guthrie of the legendary Cocteau Twins and Clément Ducol, composer of the fantastic soundtrack to Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez. A record that knows how to be gravely light and slightly serious, a record of melodies to be whistled just about everywhere; a personal record and a universal record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for his albums with Daniel Darc and Peter Doherty, Frédéric Lo has also worked with prestigious artists such as Alain Chamfort, Alex Beaupain, Stephan Eicher, Hubert Félix Thiéfaine, Maxime Leforestier, Marc Lavoine, Pony Pony Run Run, Nick Mulvey, Imany, Fink.... 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One can sense the influence of Serge Gainsbourg's L'Homme à la Tête de Chou, a disillusioned Procol Harum and a world-weary Burt Bacharach hovering over Houellebecq's poems in Présence Humaine, a now cult classic album orchestrated by Bertrand Burgalat and the musicians of Eiffel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve thousand copies sold and a few concerts later, the writer decided (or so we thought) to bid farewell to the stage, only to generate more media attention though his literary success. Frédéric Lo is, of course, known as an exceptional lyricist, composer, arranger, and producer, author of a sublime fourth solo album (L'Outrebleu, released last March) and a master of collaborative work, notably with Bill Pritchard, Peter Doherty and Daniel Darc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Raw, stripped-down music draped in electronica, adorned with piano and antediluvian drum machines, often minimalist, sometimes repetitive, provides the perfect backdrop for twelve tracks that question and reflect on humanity's past and future (if indeed there is one). Reflections on the human condition, 21st-century style, a work of speculative fiction conceived by two eternally modern \"young lads,\" Souvenez-Vous de l'Homme (Remember Man) is an album that might occasionally evoke The Stranglers' La Folie, and, given the title, that's probably no coincidence. But above all, it's a hypnotic and melancholic album, uncompromising and captivating. 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