The French group made up of autistic singers has gone from the margin to the center by packing the Rennes audience by its post-punk mixture and poetic art art.
by Stéphane Davet (Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Special Envoy)
Furibardial rage and disturbing dreamlike, raw emotion and surrealist humor, intimate vertigo and jubilant energy … Rare are the rock groups to be able to release all these sensations, trapped that they are too many codes, poses, conscience self. So when the public of Trans Musicales holds a specimen like Astereotypie, he takes advantage of it. Thursday, December 8, during the first of the three evenings that the program program on the vast site of the Parc-Expo, in the Rennes suburbs, the spectators massage in front of the hall 3 scene welcoming this collective where musicians electrify the words of three singers (Stanislas Carmont, Yohann Goetzmann, Aurélien Lobjoit) and a singer (Claire Ottaway) autistic.
“I have not programmed them because they are autistic, but for the strength of music and texts”, assures Jean-Louis Brossard, co-founder of the trans and orchestrator of this 44 > Edition which, from December 7 to 11, devotes itself more than ever to the International of emerging talents. And to add: “Their new album is one of the very best records of the year.” Without even knowing the story of the group, no guy looks like Brad Pitt in Drôme (Air Rytmo), their second album , seized by its hypnotic force, its cathartic poetry, its radical truth, but also by the festive efficiency of refrains wandering between dreams and nightmares. “I want, I must, I want to be a pasha”, “Ponyo on the cliff/ponyo on the cliff/We will look for the devil/We will look for the devil”, “from the bicycle to Saint-Malo/Du Kayak in Saint -Briac “, thus take up the Rennes fans in chorus.
“The more it goes, the less those who like Astereotypie refer to a” group trained for medico-educational reasons “, rejoices Christophe L’Huillier, composer guitarist and founder of the collective. This is less a question of health than culture. “It is however at the Bourg-la-Reine medico-educational institute (Hauts-de-Seine) that this project was born, in the early 2010s. So educator, the Huillier , born in Brest (Finistère) thirty-nine years ago, organizes poetry workshops for young autistic people. “I was thinking of teaching them things, but I was swept away by the originality and power of the texts they offered me,” recalls Brestois.
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Also a musician, the educator first chooses to accompany these texts with room music, for narrations in Slam mode. An invitation to perform, in 2015, at the Sonic Protest festival, in the Parisian hall of the Centquatre, will change the profile of Asteréotypie. “I understood, on stage, that their texts and their charisma would be increased tenfold by more electric music,” explains this amateur of Furia Punk, convinced that Rock Hardcore and Art Brut can become synonyms.
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