PortraitThe singer from the Ardennes, also a DJ and actress, has released “Avec les Yeux”, her second album, where her singing, capable of heartbreak à la Bonnie Tyler or of whimsical authority à la Catherine Ringer, resonates over irresistible melodies.
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Up before dawn, Flora Fishbach was eager for the sun to rise to stretch her legs. This February morning is radiant, but even when the mist darkens the reliefs of the Semoy valley, the Ardennes love the large steps that breathe oxygen, the soothing song of the river or the wind in the trees. As much as perking up in front of a bare-bottomed mess, this rustic regional hotpot made from potatoes, onions and bacon, which his mother likes to simmer for him when the hiker passes by.
This rural setting, planted about twenty kilometers north of Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes), is however not just a sports ground. We realize this during the walk where the singer, known as Fishbach, and Ardent, her Hungarian shepherd, lead us along the loops of the Semoy in flood or in the steep woods, dotted with spectacular outcrops of shales. She confides: “These places have something inhabited, an inspiring strangeness. » In tune with the magnetic gravity of his voice and the theatricality of his repertoire.
The dark depths of these forests, this rock swallowed up by the waters, these giant altars that nature has carved in slate appear in the very recent clip of Teleportation, one of the tracks from his second album, With the eyes, released on February 25.
Against the backdrop of a dreamlike synthesizer and soaring guitar, the girl with the piercing blue-green iris eyes is transformed into a neo-pagan priestess, Ardennes cousin of Kate Bush, directed and in costume by Aymeric Bergada du Cadet. A photographer and director, faithful accomplice of his visual creations, who, a few months ago, had transformed him into a sexy Marlene Dietrich of funky cabaret for the single Masque d’or. Before perhaps putting in images the multiple characters (Matrixian diva, Gothic princess, but also a fragile woman turning over her burns…) populating a disc in which Fishbach has refilled the mysteries and “werewolf desire”. “I wanted to get out of the ‘angrogynous, frowning’ box of the first album, to explore other facets of my personality and my music. »
Eighties sounds and raw feelings
After the trial and error of English-speaking debut within the rock duo Most Agadn’t, Flora Fishbach, born in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) thirty years ago, had approached the French language and song to weave, solo , a more personal universe. In the second half of the 2010s, she and girlfriends like Juliette Armanet or Clara Luciani broke through by asserting, each in their own way, their desire to erase the old divisions between pop aristocracy and variety song.
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