Singer Vincent Delerm offers himself a sound book to celebrate his twenty

His debut album, the soberly named Vincent Delerm, it was in 2002. Twenty years and six albums later, the singer-songwriter pursues his road. By taking the alternative routes that his inspiration indicates to him.

Three soundtracks, photo books, theater, two documentary films, including the touching I don’t know if it’s everyone in 2019, compiling the reflections of personalities facing the passage of time…

At 46, the singer has never been satisfied with just one color on his palette and, quietly, he has shaped his world. To mark this double decade, the native of Évreux, in Normandy, released a book-discs: Like a story/Without words.

Augmented Song

Summing up his twenty-year career as a face to face with this original object, we say to ourselves that music does not seem to be enough for Vincent Delerm.

“I wouldn’t say it in that order, he explains on the phone. When I do something else, it’s because I like to fire any wood. My starting point is to report an emotion and, most of the time, the songs are perfect for that, we take people somewhere in three minutes. When I made my film, photos are to show things that I couldn’t have put into song, but not because the song isn’t enough, it’s more. Things respond to each other. In this project, it’s the same. On stage too, quite quickly, I put videos, images… What matters is to remain consistent, when I put a video, it completes the feeling. Like an augmented song.”

Assembly

In this anniversary record-book, there is the visual and the sound. A logbook, with photos, reproduction of manuscripts… And two albums: like a storyan hour-thirteen audio film containing commentary, songs livepreviously unreleased tracks, and Without wordstwenty pieces in instrumental piano version.

And in the first two, we find a creative model that seems increasingly dear to the son of writer and illustrator Philippe and Martine Delerm: editing.

“It’s true. When you make songs and organize them, it’s piecemeal. For my film, the same, I had lots of sequences and we edited them saying to ourselves: ”c ‘is like a box of sweets, what do we want now?” Some will say: ”That’s not how you make a film, you have to have convictions from the start”, I don’t. What matters to me is having the sequences, the songs that I like and editing them as I want. On this project, too: for the book, I knew the mass of things that I had but , to organize them, I worked with a graphic designer friend, we did some tests. You shouldn’t be too proud, don’t tell yourself that you have the answer in advance.”

A unique art of collage. Objects, excerpts, voices, writings.

“I’m happy to have an object that brings it all together. Me, I love having stuff like that in my hands, on Daho or the Beatles, without comparing myself. I like things that contain life, in fragments I don’t have, for example, a huge taste for books of manuscripts, I like seeing a photo, a drawing on a tablecloth… Our lives are made up of that, of elements that collide between them. For the sound, the same thing, when you work on a record, you receive a bit of arrangement, a vocal note, a minute of piano. every time I say to myself: this mix is ​​really life , we should make a record that is like that. The more it goes, the more I try to stick to it.”

Personal Hall of Fame

Since its first success, the skipping Fanny Ardant and meDelerm has accustomed us to bringing his personal pantheon in his songs, his clips, his films.

This is still the case here. A note from Trintignant, one from Modiano, a message from Rochefort left on his answering machine, the voice of Souchon, Cherhal, Ardant again…

“The exercise of admiration is quite healthy, when you do things yourself, you quickly find something wrong with others… I find it great to say that you love someone, besides, it shocks me when there is a death and everyone wakes up on Instagram: “Oh, I loved her so much”… Should have said it before! Anne Sylvestre, she doesn’t care that everyone world said that on the day of his death. Paradoxically, I think that with influences we have to make something new. The first time I met Souchon, I was embarrassed, I said to him: “Pardon me because, Saying that you are a spiritual father, it’s as if I was positioning myself as a son”, and he replied: “No worries, on the other hand our songs are not alike at all”, and it’s true. My sources, they are not only musical, they are also a behavior, a way of responding, of taking an interest in things. »


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Singer Vincent Delerm offers himself a sound book to celebrate his twenty-year career