The emotion, the inspired lyrics, the piano duet with her clear and warm voice, the love for Toulouse, the Garonne and “my country”, Marie Amali literally captivated the large audience that came to listen to her at the musical garden this Thursday, August 1st, in the middle of Festiv’Allier: “At the edge of the swimming pool I came across the smiling sea, there were no waves to avoid…”
And then this Friday, August 2, on the Place des Moines, the three concerts of the evening program of this 20th edition of the Festiv’Allier delighted the audience, both in terms of the musical quality of the artists and in terms of their stage performance, making the festival-goers dance and sing.
Ysé, Hyl, Akira and the Sabbath
At 9 p.m., Ysé, already known to the people of Langon since she had already come in 2023 on the occasion of the Mégaphone tour in Rocles, alternated between intimate melodious passages, accompanied only by her guitar, reflecting contemporary anxieties, in particular those generated by virtual love, (As the storm rages in the distance, I prefer to party), with the big party hits taken up by the crazy crowd at Place des Moines: If I doubt remind me, the smell of acacias.
The second group followed suit at the same energetic and festive tempo. The rapper singer Hyl, accompanied by his musicians, as excited as he was, had already come to the Megaphone tour in Rocles in 2023. He immediately made things clear: I never dance, I don’t dance, I would like to, I don’t dance but I make people dance.
Hyl recounts his difficult beginnings, “We’ve done the kilometers, we’ll do more, if the earth was flat we would have already fallen!”his dreams of becoming a singer like his idols, and as his lyrics are written with a lively and colorful pen, punchy and lapidary, he finds refrains that have been enthusiastically taken up by the public: “It’s not that we win, it’s that we don’t lose!”
The clock had long since struck midnight when Akira and the Sabbat set the stage at Place des Moines alight with their shock phrases and frenetic rhythm: “I don’t want to end up a butterfly, life expectancy of a caterpillar.” They are also masters in the poetry of their texts: “Have you taken off? I thought we’d end up like Rose and Jack, I tried without nails or vices nothing fixes you nothing soothes you.”
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