« French is reputed for being the language for lovers. 16th century’s poets play with a revigorating freedom, with an impertinence admired and celebrated by Verlaine through overflowing earthiness. Their words tell « making love », they speak of the body, of the sweat, of the sighs but also of torments and hopes with shocking rawness and amused gentleness. Death is never far away ; french replaced a vowel with a consonant « amour/a mort » and jumps joyfully to one another. »
Based upon poems from Pierre Ronsard, Louise Labé, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Raymond Queneau and texts from Brigitte Fontaine and Alain Badiou, David Rueff et Nadine Esteve composed an abounding musical universe, between stumbling odd rythms and bewitching laments.
In the style of eastern dance songs where sadness is always tinged with glee and joy colored with huge nostalgia, Impaires’s 3 muscians (Brigitte Cirla, Nadine Esteve and Magali Rubio), tinkle french language with happy yearning and carnal preciosity.
