Noir Désir

Noir Désir
General information
Genre (s)	Rock , grunge
founding	1983
resolution	2010
Last occupation
singing	Bertrand Cantat
guitar	Serge Teyssot-Gay
Drums	Denis Barthe
bass	Jean-Paul Roy
former members
bass	Frédéric Vidalenc

Noir Désir was a French rock band that formed in Bordeaux in the 1980s and disbanded in November 2010 . It consisted of singer Bertrand Cantat , Serge Teyssot-Gay on guitar , Denis Barthe on drums and Frédéric Vidalenc ( replaced by Jean-Paul Roy in 1996 ) on bass . The group's career spanned more than 20 years and culminated in the 1990s. The band's music and lyrics often express their rejection of fascism and capitalism, as well as their critical stance towards globalization .

history

Bertrand Cantat and Serge Teyssot-Gay, who both went to the same high school class in 1980, decided to make music together; Denis Barthe joined a few months later. Noir Désir's second album (released in 1990) introduced punk rock elements into her style. This continued in the next album Tostaky , which also included a successful song with the same title. The group became one of the most popular French rock groups and continued their success with the album 666.667 Club and the remix album One Trip One Noise . Her last album Des visages des figures also contains the song Le vent nous portera , which was recorded together with the French-speaking singer Manu Chao as a guitarist.

During a visit to Lithuania in July 2003, Bertrand Cantat hit his girlfriend Marie Trintignant so hard during a violent argument that she died after a brief coma as a result of the injuries inflicted on her. He was sentenced on March 29, 2004 by a court in Vilnius to eight years in prison for manslaughter .

In September 2005 the group released the album Noir Désir en public, originally planned for 2003, with musical highlights from their last tour in 2002, as well as a double DVD set Noir Désir en images with videos of their live performances. The singer Cantat was given a special permit to collaborate on the material. On October 16, 2007, Cantat was released conditionally for good conduct. After Cantat was released, the band signed a contract with the Barclay label for three new studio albums.

In November 2008, two new titles ( Gagnants - Perdants and Le temps des Cerises ) were made available for free download on the group's website . These came from the next album Gagnants - Perdants , which was due to be released in early 2009, but the release was delayed. This was the group's first artistic sign of life since Bertrand Cantat's release from prison.

In November 2010, however, Serge Teyssot-Gay announced his departure due to personal and musical differences with Bertrand Cantat, whereupon the remaining three band members announced the breakup of the group.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1989	Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)	FR36 gold (5 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 1997
1992	Tostaky	FR40 gold (10 weeks)FR	BE W142 (2 weeks) BE W	-	Chart entry in FR only 1997, in Belgium only 2012 in the anniversary edition ( Digipack - 20 ans )
1996	666,667 Club	FR1 × 2 Double platinum (90 weeks)FR	BE W9 (30 weeks) BE W	CH- gold CH
1998	Remixes	FR15 (2 weeks) FR	-	-
2001	The face of the figures	FR1 × 2 Double platinum (93 weeks)FR	BE W1 platinum (34 weeks)BE W	CH2 platinum (38 weeks)CH

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More studio albums

• 1987: Où veux-tu qu'je r'garde?
• 1991: Du ciment sous les plaines (FR:gold)
• 2004: Nous n'avons fait que fuir (poetry album )

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1994	Dies irae	FR149 (1 week) FR	-	-	Double album chart entry in FR only in 2001
2005	En public	FR1 (45 weeks) FR	BE W2 (14 weeks) BE W	CH4 (7 weeks) CH
	En images	-	-	CH30 (3 weeks) CH	DVD
2020	Débranché	-	BE W96 (3 weeks) BE W	-	Live recordings from Milan (2002) and Buenos Aires (1997)

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Video albums

• 1994: Noir Désir by Henri-Jean Debon
• 1998: On est au monde by Henri-Jean Debon
• 2005: Noir désir en public et en images (FR:diamond)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1997	One trip / one noise	FR25 (8 weeks) FR	-	-	Remix compilation
2000	En route pour la joie	FR73 (2 weeks) FR	-	-	Triple album, partly live
2011	Soyons désinvoltes, n'ayons l'air de rien	FR3 (29 weeks) FR	BE W16 (32 weeks) BE W	CH75 (4 weeks) CH	Double album, partly live

More compilations

• 1994: compilation

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		FR	BE W
1989	Aux sombres herros de l'amer Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)	FR31 (8 weeks) FR	-
1992	Tostaky Tostaky	FR21 (22 weeks) FR	-
1993	Lolita never en bloc Tostaky	FR38 (1 week) FR	-
1997	L'homme pressé 666.667 Club	FR15 (12 weeks) FR	-
2001	Le vent nous portera Des visages des figures	FR3 gold (28 weeks)FR	BE W7 (22 weeks) BE W
2002	Lost Des visages des figures	FR50 (6 weeks) FR	-

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More singles

• 1987: Où veux-tu qu'je r'garde?
• 1987: Toujours être ailleurs
• 1989: Les Écorchés
• 1993: Ici Paris
• 1994: Marlène (live)
• 1996: Un jour en France
• 1997: À ton étoile
• 1998: Fin de siècle (GLYO)
• 2011: Aucun express

Trivia

• The song Le vent nous portera was translated and covered by the Berlin street musician Felix Meyer , among others . It was also sampled in parts in the song Vacation Tape by Rainer Weichhold and Nick Olivetti. In addition, the piece was covered by Sophie Hunger on her album in 1983 .

Web links

• Official website
• Noir Désir at Allmusic (English)
• Noir Désir at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://next.liberation.fr/musique/01012305351-noir-desir-est-mort
2. ↑ Rock star Bertrand Cantat is released. Welt online from October 15, 2007.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: FR BEW CH
4. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for music sales: FR FR2 BEW CH
5. ↑ http://www.whosampled.com/sample/196761/Rainer-Weichhold-Nick-Olivetti-Vacation-Tape-Noir-D%C3%A9sir-Le-Vent-Nous-Portera/