As a neopsychedelic little prince, at the time of his first album, Möö World (2014), or as a dancefloor marquis, for his second opus, Cite Champagne (2018), Pablo Padovani – alias Moodoïd – has always liked to surround himself with women. After having privileged, in studio and on stage, the company of musicians and a female technical team, the singer-guitarist pushes further this complicity in a project, PrimaDonna, bringing together in two volumes a series of songs conceived and recorded in duet with singers.
“I have sometimes played on this image of a seducer, agrees the thirty-something looking like a youth, but above all I feel more at ease with girls than with boys. I interact better with them, I express my share of femininity. This is how my music produces the most emotions. For PrimaDonna, the goal was to be involved equally in sound as in images. “
After all, doesn’t Moodoïd owe his career launch to a woman, the French Melody Prochet, eponymous goddess of the group Melody’s Echo Chamber, who can be found in Only One Man, one of five tracks from the debut EP PrimaDonna ?
“I owe him a great debt, Pablo recalls. I met Melody by chance in a cafe in 2011, when I was finishing my film studies. I had put a few songs on the Net, without believing it. After coming to one of my concerts, she offered to play in her band, which was releasing their first album, for a month and a half tour of the United States. That’s how I became an almost full-time musician. “ At the same time, he is pursuing a career as a music video director.
“The friend of singers”
Then came other meetings. “I met Say Lou Lou’s twins during a month’s stay in Los Angeles », explains Moodoïd. With Australo-Swedish Miranda and Elektra Kilbey-Jansson (daughter of Australian singer and bassist Steve Kilbey, frontman of The Church), he co-signs and records a Lynchian ballad on site, French Boy, evoking a Frenchman lost in the desert, rescued by the twin sisters.
The health crisis has thwarted some collaborations. African-American singer and keyboardist Felicia Douglass had to be content with telephone and digital exchanges to bring the very soul to fruition. Sentimental Lover in which she participates. Between two confinements, the Frenchman still found a way to move to Germany, to Bremen, to find the trace of Stephanie Lange, singer of the cult group Saâda Bonaire.
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