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Cœur de pirate got us hooked

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written by Lauriane Pipoz · July 30, 2019 · 0 comment

Paléo Festival 2019 - Lauriane Pipoz

Cœur de Pirate, real name Béatrice Martin, gave a performance perfectly suited to a festival, this Sunday July 28 at the Paléo Festival. Here's a look back at the artist-angel who's far too important for this little aunt.

At center stage sits a white grand piano. The instrument matches the clothes of all the protagonists in the show from the pretty Quebecer. Because the singer-songwriter has taken great pains to put on a real show: you can feel the attention to detail during this hour-and-a-quarter performance, where the musicians have fun around a twirling Cœur de Pirate on stage.

The singer revealed this summer wants to show a certain turning point in her life in concert: she wants to touch people, but also wants to have fun. This was certainly the case at her concert at the Dôme, the stage dedicated to Quebec at this year's Paléo Festival. Far from having a big head, she expressed how delighted she was to be there - for the third time. Very much at ease, she not only greeted the audience in the middle of her first song - class! -but then went on to apostrophize on numerous occasions. Not least to humorously check that we, the audience, were still all right after three sad songs and the approach of a melancholy one.

Yes, her lyrics are pretty dark on the whole, but no, her music was by no means depressing. She knew how to turn it into a show in which good humor was the order of the day. Sequins in the background, warm colors like pink and purple, bursts of laughter between songs: it was all there to make us have a good time.

As she pointed out at the end of the concert - before performing one of her new songs, Don't call me -, she is turning a corner in her music. Although I'm not a connoisseur of this superb Quebec artist - I'm planning to start catching up right now, and would advise you to do so if you're in the same situation - this latest song seemed to be accompanied by a much happier sound, enhanced by a little more electronic music. The result was very harmonious and danceable, and it suited her! It's a paradox, this musical joy coinciding with his determination not to hear any more from his ex-wife.

Although, of course, she always retains a very emotional side. This was particularly evident in her stripped-down piano-vocal interpretation of Mistral wins. This masterpiece by Renaud, who needs no introduction, had been revisited by the singer and pianist for the release of a tribute album to the French singer in 2014. This piece, which she made her own with great elegance, was my favorite of the well-orchestrated concert.

The icing on the cake demonstrated the artist's perfect mastery of register changes. A complete singer-songwriter, able to communicate with the audience in an extremely pleasant way, to take over the whole stage in a natural way, to make people laugh as well as move them, to compose beautiful lyrics and, above all, to interpret them magnificently well with a velvet voice.

Write to the author: lauriane.pipoz@leregardlibre.com