The ex-singer of Therapie Taxi releases her first solo album, which mixes Country and Pop rhythms.
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Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac was only 17 years old when, one day in 2013, she convinces Raphaël Faget-Zaoui to associate herself with her after having sang her, on the dry guitar, a cover of Jimmy, Ballad Country Folk from the Moriarty group. Quickly escaping from the acoustic vein, the widening duo will get worse between groove and rock, under the name of therapy taxi.
Two albums – Hit Sale (2018), Exquisite corpse (2019) – and a handful of hymns standing between the dispense of the senses and trash love (bastard (e), idyllic coma, Hit dirty, with your zouz …) will run At the small generational phenomenon, before a separation selected by triumphant farewell concerts, in the fall of 2021.
Place, since, solo quarries. “Raph”, under the surname of Zaoui, came out of the singles (bad, let your body go, c the base …), confirming its taste for borderline party and urban rhythms. Adé returns to the American sources of her beginnings in a first album, so then?, Whose pop liveliness is imbued with banjo, mandolin, harmonica and pedal steel. Has one song near -q (“So mix your ass, yeah”) -, the young woman of today abandons the raw words which sparkled all the more the pieces of her old group they contrasts with His gaits of the daughter of the beautiful neighborhoods. “I had a lot of fun embodying this provocative side, but most of the texts were written by” Raph “”, explains the singer.
desire for autonomy
While she played her role to the end in a farewell tour overflowing with intensity, ade had already started working on songs that would look like her. Conscious from the start of the ephemeral of his formula (“this energy was too much in youth and adolescence to be able to last”), the group had acted its separation at dawn of 2020. Planned in the Entertainment, their last concerts had to be postponed due to pandemic.
The forced solitude of confinement has, in the meantime, encouraged the lumber stamp of Therapie Taxi to refine her identity as a singer. “What did I really want? What defined me?” To answer these questions, La Parisienne plunges back into her memories: “Gamine, I was constantly listening to a single of Shania Twain, Come on Over [ 1997], without knowing that it was a country pop hybrid. “She overlaps her passions:” How to reconcile the modernity of Lorde and the classicism of Joni Mitchell? “The algorithms of the streaming platforms give her some tracks. “By constituting my playlists, I was offered a piece of Kacey Musgraves. His way, in the album Golden Hour [2018], to mix the roots of Nashville with the finesse of a more contemporary pop was a revelation” , says ade by quoting the disc of this singer and Texan guitarist.
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