Barbara Carlotti in concert at Villa Medici

For the most part, Barbara Carlotti writes and composes. She writes and performs songs(Chansons ; Les Lys Brisés; L’ Idéal ; L’ Amour L’ argent Le vent; Magnétique; Corse, Ile d’amour), as well as shows, radio programs (Cosmic Fantaisie on France Inter) and even television (Le Cabaret Insolite on France 3 Corse), and a film “Quatorze Ans”, an adolescent musical-comedy produced by Ecce film in 2019. These are all islands in reality, between which winds a voice that sounds like water, alternately clear and troubled, lively or almost asleep, totally hypnotic. A voice sometimes mixed, in duet, with those of Philippe Katerine, Dominique A, Bertrand Belin, Juliette Armanet, Izia, Bertrand Burgalat… A constellation of soul mates of French pop in which she radiates.

Bertrand Belin is an author, composer and performer, as well as a writer and actor. His latest album, Tambour Vision, is about being in the world. How does one come to terms with the idea of being here on earth, subject to the vagaries of an existence more surprising than oneself? Being in the world, flanked by an otherness with which we must come to terms, for better or for worse. Her seventh album is the ideal antidote to our anxieties and solitudes, a hybrid blend of French-language pop that encourages intoxication of the senses and struggles. A remedy for today’s banality, because it rejects all constraints. There’s always been freedom, ever since Bertrand Belin’s eponymous debut album in 2005. But it radiates here as unfiltered, ignoring the coquetries and fog of today.

Musician, composer and singer, David Numwami seeks to ward off his sadness with comforting melodies, underscored by digital beats and acoustic guitar. At the age of five, his mother enrolled him in music theory, having heard that music healed wounded souls. Indeed, from his birth in March 1994, David was immersed in the genocidal chaos of Rwanda. With his mother and older sisters, they found a new home in Belgium, in Louvain-La-Neuve, where David learned to play the guitar. As a teenager, he played in a band that supported his Le Colisée project in 2010. While studying philosophy, David orchestrated the pop of Le Colisée, then went on to perform with artists such as François & The Atlas Mountains. In 2018, he toured with Charlotte Gainsbourg for the album Rest. He accompanies Sébastien Tellier, Nicolas Godin and SebastiAn in the studio and on stage. In 2020, he made a name for himself with Le Fisc de l’Amour, followed by Beats! for which he directed the video. The artist’s R’n’B is pure and pop, synthetic and organic, with poetic breaths, kawaii and lo-fi keyboards, percussive elements and the acoustic guitar he’s had since childhood, dented as it should be, but with a sound that touches the heart.