Jacques is undoubtedly one of the most whimsical and creative artists of the new French music scene. He manages the feat of marrying experimental music and music for the general public.
It has now been more than six years since the public has been able to get to know Jacques’ compositions, halfway between the art of noise and the art of making hits. “I think I like it when people are a little perplexed. I like to get people to not understand anything,” explains the author, composer and performer, interviewed by RTS.
The 30-year-old Frenchman, son of singer Étienne Auberger, recycles objects of all kinds to extract sound. It is the raw material for most of his songs and it probably makes him the most original and funniest French pop artist of his last ten years. Behind his machines, Jacques manages to put rigor into a kind of half-voluntary awkwardness.
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After two EPs released in 2015 and 2017 respectively, the artist unveiled his first 13-track album last February entitled “The Importance of Emptiness”. A more pop collection than his previous creations, written and composed during a three-year exile in Morocco.
New figurehead of French pop
Detail that is not one: Jacques’ hairstyle. It is its trademark, its logotype. You can know Jacques by his hairstyle without knowing his music. But so far no one else seems to have adopted it. “It would be completely paradoxical to regret that no one followed me. I do it to be really different, to look at myself in the mirror and say to myself: ‘wow you’re still a phew'”, explains the artist.
Jacques in concert is synonymous with generosity, colors and a great delirium of shared joy. With him, French pop has found its new figurehead.
TV Subject: Witold Langlois
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