French singer-songwriter Florent Marchet is releasing his seventh album, Mobil Home — a record made over several seasons spent between Tunisia and France. Les Inrockuptibles describes it as nomadic, intimate, and at the same time firmly anchored in reality; according to the magazine, it gives his songs a materiality and density they haven't had before. Les Inrockuptibles ↗
The album takes its title from one of the tracks, which speaks about women's emancipation. He himself explains it more broadly: "Setting aside a somewhat cheap play on words — 'homme mobile,' mobile man — a mobile home evokes a possibility that was dear to the child I once was: refusing a place that is too fixed. Unfortunately, impoverishment has outweighed that optimistic side, and the mobile home has become primarily a symbol of social decline." Les Inrockuptibles ↗
The album is also shaped by a way of thinking "far removed from the Western, more self-centered perspective." It closes with the moving track Orcival, with which Marchet pays tribute to the late Jean-Louis Murat. In the verses of the song Sortir les violons he states: "We like to warm ourselves in songs without shame, which revive us before the abyss." Les Inrockuptibles ↗
Marchet has been active on the French scene since the early 2000s and, alongside his own albums, also writes film music. On SuperMusic you can find the lyrics to three of his songs.
Illustrative photo: Florent Marchet at the Fête de l'Humanité 2014. Photo: Thesupermat / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Florent Marchet Recorded His Seventh Album Between Tunisia and France. Mobil Home Is About What It Means Not to Be Anchored
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