{"id":538279,"date":"2020-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/non-classifiee-2\/peter-peter-the-quebecois-busy-redefining-the-rules-of-francophone-pop-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"peter-peter-the-quebecois-busy-redefining-the-rules-of-francophone-pop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/non-classifiee-2\/peter-peter-the-quebecois-busy-redefining-the-rules-of-francophone-pop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Peter, the Quebecois busy redefining the rules of Francophone pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Far from the singing stereotypes generally found in Quebec, <\/strong>a new army of winning faces and crystalline voices appears to be reclaiming the spotlight. A few months ago we discovered Aliocha<\/a>, who\u2019d just released an enchanting album with pop and folk accents fresh out of Audiogram. It\u2019s the same independent label who today is launching a third album by Peter Peter<\/a>, a discreet and studious figure who\u2019s been living in Paris for the last three years. Listening to the incandescent \u201cNoir Eden\u201d and \u201cNo Man’s Land\u201d it\u2019s hard not to compare him to the immense French artist Christophe<\/a>: texts truffled with literary references in an unclassifiable genre between pop, electro and French chanson\u2026 It\u2019s a tempting assimilation game that the young artist prefers to avoid. \u201cI\u2019ve already been compared to Christophe in terms of the darker nature and narrative aspects of my music. I was actually his support act for some shows in February. That said my solitary character inhibits me from identifying with any particular scene, I never felt the need to belong to a gang or be validated by a group.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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His second opus \u201cUne version am\u00e9lior\u00e9e de la tristesse\u201d laid the firm foundations for his music,<\/strong> with his incomparable melodies and pretty collection of singles (led by \u2018Carrousel\u2019). But when it came to \u201cNoir Eden\u201d there was clearly a desire to start cutting away to push the experiment further. \u201cThe album was written in almost total isolation, I would only listen to music when I went running in the mornings and then I would write from 11am to 9pm following a pretty unusual rhythm for me, a proper routine.\u201d It couldn\u2019t be further than the old adage of sex, drugs and rock\u2019n\u2019roll that we love to associate with that kind of limitless creative energy. \u201cI realised this rigour wasn\u2019t in fact the enemy of inventiveness, quite the opposite. With a pretty chaotic personality, forcing myself to structure ideas makes me even more productive.\u201d It\u2019s a radical reversal in direct connection with his move to the French capital. \u201cThe labyrinthine side to Paris echoed my thoughts which were also rather sinuous at the time. I felt like it was the right place, it seemed so familiar all while representing a real fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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