Temperaments

It promises to be one of early 2019's most anticipated French albums. Having shot to fame in 2017 with his first solo album, simply named "Un" (One), featuring popular hits Sous Garantie and Cinéma, Malik Djoudi is now ready with the sequel, intriguingly entitled "Tempéraments". This Poitiers-born artist, with his strong personality and innate charisma, brings us eleven new songs that are at once instinctive and ambitious, hypnotic and exhilarating, informed and unburdened.

Three years ago, following a journey of discovery to Vietnam, his mother's homeland, the singer and self-taught musician imagined a conditional future, writing eight songs in French that met with critical and public success. Thanks to this record, initially self-produced then released on the label Cinq7. Rather than resting on his laurels, Malik Djoudi has decided to keep going with a second album simultaneously with a marathon tour. Last summer this self-taught singer and musician ended up finding refuge in the studio of sought-after producer Ash Workman (Metronomy, Christine And The Queens, Baxter Dury), with the artistic support of Amaury Ranger (Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains).

In his quest for an electro, synthetic pop sound, this time Malik Djoudi has decided to do things differently, having written, composed and produced Un on his own. "My first album seems almost alien to me. I just wouldn't be able to make it that way again now. On the new one, I started with a completely blank page, before shifting my focus to British/American culture…" Unconsciously inspired - whether by Connan Mockasin's guitar or James Blake's synth sounds - Malik Djoudi composes on the guitar and the keyboard, without distinction. Chords, melodies and harmonies are the driving force for his creations. "I take my work very seriously. Since signing with Cinq7 in spring 2017, I have been essentially living out a childhood fantasy. The way I see it, a song is like a painting: every detail counts. I can spend six months trying to find the right three words that are missing from some song lyrics. The music, the lyrics, the breathing and the placement of the instruments are just as important." He is meticulous, obsessive and demanding, spending long nights perfecting his art.