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Christophe Miossec (born December 24, 1964 in Brest , Brittany ) is a French composer , author and performer from Brest .
biography
The beginnings
Christoph Miossec grew up in the Breton port city of Brest , his father was a fire service diver and his mother worked in the navy. As a teenager, he played guitar in the local band Printemps Noir in the early 1980s , which at least made it to a television report. After the band split up, he didn't touch a guitar for the next 10 years. He began to study archeology and worked in numerous minor professions. For example, he worked for the press and helped produce commercials for TF1 .
After the success of Dominique A's minimalist debut album La fossette in 1992, he became convinced that he, too, could make it in music. A meeting with the guitarist Guillaume Jouan was the decisive factor in Miossec's return to music. The two start working on an album, and later Bruno Leroux joins them, another guitarist from Brest who had previously played in the band Les Locataires .
1995-1998
After a few smaller concerts in Brest, the trio consisting of Miossec, Jouan and Leroux recorded the first album Boire and released it in 1995. It was immediately praised by the critics, especially the magazine Les Inrockuptibles . Musically it is reduced to two guitars and a bass. The lyrics are rough and disaffected.
From this point on, Miossec is regarded as one of the representatives and co-founders of the Nouvelle scène française (also called Nouvelle Chanson ) alongside Thomas Fersen and Dominique A. He felt himself in the tradition of chansoners such as Jacques Brel , but wanted to solve the dilemma of not drifting into the vaudeville-like at the same time.
For his second album Baiser he teamed up with other musicians, in particular Yves-André Lefeuvre and Olivier Mellano. The recordings took place after a tour that was tiring for Miossec. He himself is dissatisfied with the result and even called it a "self-parody". Musically it is a bit harder in tone, the lyrics give the impression that after years in the bars he has finally found his girlfriend.
To get back to the naivety of his album Boire , Miossec worked again as a duo with Guillaume Jouan. Together with other studio musicians, they recorded their third album À prendre in 1998 . It is full of tension and musically more diverse than the debut album. With 120,000 copies sold, it will be the greatest success up to that point, from then on Miossec will become a widely respected performer in France.
1999-2006
The success of his album À prendre opened the horizon for Miossec. He was given the opportunity to write texts for other well-known interpreters, in 1999 for example for Jane Birkin ( Les Avalanches ) and Johnny Hallyday ( Notre histoire , Remise de peine , Ex ), and in the following years a. a. also for Alain Bashung and even Juliette Gréco .
Not satisfied with his last album, he changed musicians again for Brûle , which was released in 2001. The album is quieter overall, the lyrics more mature. In the title Grandir he alludes to his son.
In 2003, Miossec was invited by the Orchester lyrique de Région Avignon Provence from his new home in southern France to arrange the tracks from his last four albums for a concert series. He modified this offer so that he played new songs with the orchestra instead. The album 1964 was created from this material in 2004 . It sounds easy, lively, but without ever appearing superficial. The album is - as the album title shows - a kind of balance sheet for his 40th birthday. According to Les Inrockuptibles magazine , he managed to restore a balance between his words and music for the first time since Boire .
Miossec recorded his next album L'Étreinte in Brussels , where he lived for a few years. It was released in 2006.
Since 2007
In 2007 Miossec moved back to his native Brittany. There he began working with Yann Tiersen , another successful Breton musician with whom Miossec had been friends for many years. On the album Finistériens (2009), named after the Finistère département , where both musicians come from, Yann Tiersen was involved in the composition of all the songs and played all the instruments.
His next studio album, Chansons ordinaires , was released in 2011. It's rockier and more straightforward than its predecessors. The simplicity is also expressed in the song titles, which all begin with the word chanson (for example the Chanson pour les amis played on the radio ). The group Santa Cruz from Rennes accompanied Miossec on the tour that followed the album release.
At the Victoires de la musique music award ceremony in January 2014 , Johnny Hallyday won the award for Chanson of the Year with the title 20 ans written by Miossec .
In early 2014 Miossec released a new song On vient à peine de commencer , which was shortly followed by the album Ici-bas, ici-même . It was produced by Albin de la Simone and contains only short, very intense songs. Miossec calls this a return to chansonnettes .
Miossec is the narrator in the French version of the animation film La montagne magique by Romanian director Anca Damian from 2015.
Discography
- 1995: Boire
- 1997: meringue
- 1998: A prendre
- 2001: Brûle
- 2004: 1964
- 2006: L'Étreinte
- 2009: Finistériens
- 2011: Chansons ordinaires
- 2014: Ici-bas, ici-même
- 2016: Mammifères
- 2017: Mammifères aux Bouffes du Nord
- 2018: Les Rescapés
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- ↑ Chart sources: France - Switzerland
- ↑ a b c Cali & Miossec, Rencontre au fil de l'autre , Éditions Le Bord de L'eau, 14 mars 2006, ISBN 2915651426
- ↑ http://www.rockmadeinfrance.com/encyclo/les-locataires/10028/
- ↑ http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/boire/
- ^ Miossec-Dominique A, bilan de la chanson rock dans Le Monde du 27 October 2007
- ↑ http://www.lesinrocks.com/1998/11/11/musique/christophe-miossec-demi-sec-11230483/
- ↑ a b http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/1964/
- ↑ http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/02/15/musique/miossec-interview-exclusive-et-extrait-en-avant-premiere-11473800/
Web links
- Official website (French)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Miossec, Christophe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer, author and performer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest , Brittany , France |