“I put all my pennies in there”

Pascal Obispo made a shock announcement last week: no more traditional channels to transmit his music. He embarks on a new adventure: his own application. To listen to it, to see it too, you will have to go to Obispo All Access.

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He talks about his app the best. “My platform is the mix of Netflix and Spotify. We are not far from it, all things considered. Because if on this Obispo All Access, we do not find either major international films or the repertoire of hundreds of thousands of singers, there are indeed, for a few days, videos and music. And so, of course, the entire catalog (in other words, his discography) of Pascal Obispo which has also almost completely disappeared from all other streaming platforms.

After having slammed the door of record companies (Sony and Universal), Pascal Obispo continues his quest for artistic freedom. He always frees himself a little more from a system that prevents him from doing whatever he wants if we understand between the lines. His dreams, he confides at the microphone of RTL France, “cannot go through the industry, because the industry imposes a tempo that does not necessarily suit all artists. I will be able to produce the records that I want to produce and release them when I want. »Because for a while now, Obispo has been traveling in all styles. He goes where inspiration takes him. We will not padlock him, the author of “Lucie” or “Fan”.

“I am not a multinational”

Its application – free at first glance but some content of which is only accessible for € 5.99 per month – Pascal Obispo also sees it as a small store in which you can find pieces galore, but also interviews with friends in the trade , clips, exclusive docuses about him, but also a cartoon “Captain Samurai flower” and, more surprisingly, a series devoted to meditation, “Zen”. And like in any good store, the shelves will be well stocked (with arrivals at least every Friday).

Pascal, now the sole master on board his liner, has embarked on an immense, even dizzying, project. “I put all my money in there, if I wanted to earn money, I would not have done like that, I made myself a place of freedom,” he told AFP. “But I’m not a multinational, if I have to stop because it’s not working enough, at worst, I can make an album on my own, because I know how to play all the instruments”.

The artist dares to do… and to say. “The platforms have given the illusion of free music, but it is not, I employ musicians, technicians, mixers, engineers, graphic designers, etc., I employ 10 times more people than ‘a record company. (…) The record companies have interns, I work with professionals who need to be paid, as we have seen in this period of pandemic ”.

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