Alain Chamfort presents his album “L’Impermanence” in a small Parisian room Level Éphémère: grace on the rendezvous

Surrounded by a real pop group, the singer launched a number of titles from the album that he presents because the final one, punctuated by a couple of timeless songs from his repertoire. With simplicity and magnificence, as all the time.

Alain Chamfort introduced it at a time revealed final March, L’Impermanence could be his final file, not less than within the “Lengthy play” format as he has been utilizing it for about seventy years. The singer was already asking himself the query when he launched the masterpiece A large number of issues in 2018. “There are different methods to proceed this work,” he confirmed on March 22 on Franceinfo radio earlier than two concert events on the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, in Paris. At this level, he had already acted: earlier than Instability, the singer launched in January Scrumptious EP (4 titles on this case), the results of a musical assembly with Sébastien Tellier. The singing tour that was first launched on Tuesday June 4 in Brussels, after which introduced two days later in Paris, at Level Éphémère, could be the starting of the final promotion spherical for an album by Alain Chamfort.

Additionally, this Thursday, June 6, should you like Alain Chamfort and you reside in Paris (or not too far-off), you needed to be at Level Éphémère, a small middle on the banks of the Canal Saint-Martin. Current, everlasting and affected person. Proper now, should you’re fortunate as a result of the night is (clearly) bought out. Wait, as a result of it is scorching, it is a live performance and we do not want our twenty-year-old knees anymore. Not forgetting that in these pocket rooms, the sound system fills your ears instantly. Thursday afternoon, Level Éphémère generally forgot the phrase “quietly, the basses” (or possibly our eardrums have been getting previous too)… Lastly, we needed to be affected person, as a result of the present began which was introduced at 8:30 pm an hour later .

However the wait is price it. After a ultimate scare. The live performance begins with an open rock group, with out Consolation… We then suppose: “Oh no, not the primary half, not now…” However we’re positive: this introduction is Consolation, Increase Child, an previous tune performed by the group that accompanies him on the tour L’Impermanence. The singer lastly seems and makes everybody agree Fever within the blood, catchy hit from the 80s The singing tour features a dose of titles from 2024 and others launched between 1975 and 1997, from. Time is operating out (an adaptation of a success by Barry Manilow which was itself an adaptation of a theme by Chopin) to Our historical past, with some previous titles that aren’t important to most of the people. Then again, the repertoire of A large number of issuesthe earlier file, put aside.

Alain Chamfort, generally on keyboards on the fitting aspect of the stage, generally standing on the entrance, maintains this delicate magnificence that has turn into timeless through the years. A go well with, a black shirt and tie, a satin jacket that sparkles underneath the lights, coloured glasses, generally dancing with this faint dandy silhouette and this mischievous smile, he by no means ceases to deceive and shifting on the similar time. Its biggest appeal is its simplicity. He likes it “minor accidents” of this program nonetheless occurring, like this false begin on In magnificence. The orchestras normally sound rock, pop, with the members of the group on backup and really lovely results, like this sound there that pulls particular choruses. However different preparations which might be a lot shorter give us the chance to style Alain Chamfort’s voice in all of the sensitivity he imagines.

The singer has given the tour’s musical route to Adrien Soleiman, a musician who will play a saxophone solo through the night. “We have been seeking to do one thing new” [par rapport aux précédentes tournées]belief Alain Chamfort to the viewers in the beginning of the live performance. “So it was both the large stadiums or the small golf equipment! One other want for change, this resolution to not sing all the things and go away two or three titles to the group. That, lastly, doesn’t seem through the clarification evening owl, leaving the scene immersed in blue gentle.

Among the many nice moments, we won’t neglect this collection of two of essentially the most lovely classics of his repertoire: Paradise, then in fact airplane, which is unimaginable to get bored with. After this finale, Chamfort returns alone to the keyboards for one of many iconic tracks on the ultimate album: grace, sung as an encore. A tune that summarizes the artist’s questions after sixty years of profession, as he explains himself to the general public earlier than singing this final little gem: “If solely as soon as, alas/Even when just for an extended second/Would I understand how to the touch grace?” Thursday night at 10:49 pm, when the singer slipped away, we simply wished to say “sure” to him.

Alain Chamfort will return in live performance in Paris on December 2, on the Trianon, then on March 25, 2025 on the Folies Bergère. Within the meantime, he performs at a couple of summer season festivals and again to highschool, then within the fall.
The singer’s live performance schedule

The set record for Thursday June 6, 2024 at Level Éphémère

Child Increase (rock intro by the group solely) – 1981
Fever within the blood – 1986
Love, 12 months zero – 1981
In opposition to love – 1997
Clara needs the moon – 1993
Our historical past – 1997
Quaint (by the group solely) – 1979
The Pleased Apocalypse – 2024
In magnificence – 2024
A whiskey cry – 2024
Unexpectedly – 2024
Time flies by (cease and final) – 1975
An evening owl (Consolation singing off stage) – 1990
An enormous – 1979
Paradise – 1981
Airplane – 1979

Rappel:
Grace – 2024

Alain Chamfort Group : Julia Jérosme (keyboards, vocals), Clément Fonio (guitar, vocals), Jérôme Arrighi (bass, vocals), Antoine Boistelle (drums). With Adrien Soleiman, the musical director of the tour, on solo saxophone Our historical past.