After living in France for eight years, Peter Peter returned to Montreal in August, for good. As he launches a new acoustic microalbum on Friday, H2T live sessionthe eternal melancholic tells us about his career in France, in his upcoming show in Francos, but also about the anxiety and state of sadness in 2022.
After the great success of his first album An enhanced version of grief, released in 2012, the singer-songwriter quickly received offers from abroad to take her bedroom pop stained electro in unclear territories. He later signed a contract in 2013 with Arista France, a division of industry giant Sony.
He released two albums under this now defunct label, before reconnecting with Audiogram in 2020 for launch Great Comedy. This 4th opus will be shown for the first time on stage to the Quebec public on June 15, in Francos de Montréal, at the invitation of chief programmer Laurent Saulnier.
The Chicoutimi musician returned to the metropolis in August, but a few weeks before that, he was ready to transfer his taxes to France to live permanently in Lille, with his girlfriend in Montreal.
I had a lease on my hands, but ultimately Montreal won and it wasn’t much […] The reason isn’t necessarily sexy, but it’s a mortgage pre-approvalhe explains over the phone, a few days before the launch of his microalbum.
Back in the studio saw the birth of his career
H2T live session includes six covers of his discography in stripped-down acoustic format. It was recorded by Peter Peter at Hotel2Tango’s studio on Van Horne Street in Montreal, where he made his first album over 10 years ago.
I’m feeling really made of me Full circle of my life, and it coincided with my 10th career anniversary. I rarely look back, but there, to go back to my former life, in my first studio, there was something in the air that was a bit strange, a bit anachronistic.he explains.
The first excerpt from H2T live sessionpublished a few weeks ago, is common now, taken from his latest album. The song is accompanied by a recording live minimalist directed by Dominic Vanchesteing and shot in sequence shots. The other five tracks on the album – male, Small Shangri-la, Rome, baroque beauty at The couple disappeared – Everyone has the right to the same treatment.
I chose the sequence shot because I wanted to avoid all the pitfalls, even the clichés, of live multicamera, resulting in more or less unsurprisingly consecutive best shots. A live no tension is not a live, summary by Peter Peter in a press release.
Anxiety during the post-pandemic period
The actor didn’t hide it, his return to Montreal inspired a lot of things in him. He returned to a town where he no longer knew many people in the industry. He will also bring back on stage an album that he somewhat regrets, Great Comedylaunched in the midst of a pandemic.
Despite his inherent anxiety, however, he was confident. He quickly found a new group of musicians to accompany him on stage, where he was preparing a show that would revisit all of his repertoire for his return to Francos.
He also became very prolific during the pandemic, planting some seeds on an artistic level, the fruits of which he will reveal later. For someone who is anxious, I can’t say this is the worst time of my life. There’s a solidarity effect, you know you’re in the same boat as everyone elsehe summarizes.
And anxiety, does it get worse with age or eventually subside?
It gets worse with age, but eventually I tame it, taking a deep breath. It’s not that simplehe explains.
Paris is an utterly provocative one; the music is still hard … Maybe if I stop playing music, I’ll stop being anxious, but I try to see it in a somewhat poetic way. I think it was Pierre Corneille who said “live without danger, one succeeds without glory.”
The state of melancholy in 2022
Started his career with an album titled An enhanced version of grief remarks that his romantic view of melancholy has become more serious over time, where the world has become what it is.
” The good word is sad. Now what we are experiencing is more neurasthenia, it is despair. This is a very fatalistic time. “
In Montreal, I see less, but in Paris, there are big differences that we don’t know here yet. I think it was a city of elites, more than ever, and that’s why I wanted to leave, because I felt the less bohemian spirit.
Source: Radio-Canada
