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- The title of your album, 'Churches, Schools and Guns', or even a track like 'Laws and
Habits', shows the negative aspect of our society. Do you think that human institutions
are essentially negative ? - What I can say is that these institutions
which are at the basis of our society are bipolar. This is why I wanted to put side
by side two words which are normally associated with a positive side, as church & school,
and a thing as weapons which involves violence. It's just to say how it is really difficult
to point the finger, because it is really in our civilization that there is violence.
- Conversely, many tracks from this album are
pervaded with a spiritual atmosphere, the most representative being 'Catch Twenty Two'.
Do you think that apart from its recreative and exoteric side, electronic music has an
esoteric side, able to convey realities from a superior order ? - Yes, I don't know about
a superior order, what is certain in my head is that the ritual aspect of electronic music
is always very important. Music was born as a ritual and I think that it has not changed
today. It is just that as Kraftwerk said, thirty
years ago, 'electronic music is our ethnic music'. You see ? So, this is a point of view
I consider as precious. - Ok, well a more general question now : What is the global
architecture you wanted to give to this album, 'Churches Schools & Guns' ? - Well, normally
in my studio, it works in a special way. That is to say that it is not like ' I begin to
work on an album'. I work on many things at the same
time, and there is this kind of huge palette of ever moving things, which is a continuous
process. At a certain point, and it happened like one year ago, there is a part of this
kind of volcano which begins to resonate. And when
I hear this resonance between some tracks, I begin to understand that I am approaching
from a finished product as an album or an ep. So, it is a quite long and multi-stratified.
- The wordplay which emerged from the titles of your first album - 'The Art Of Being A
Slave Is To Rule Over One's Master' - was directed toward those you call the working
bees, that is to say the victims of modern slavery. May we consider, on the contrary,
that this new album is directed to the men which managed to free themselves from this
slavery ? - We may say that it is just a step forward compared
to the first album.That is to say that it is not directed toward one kind of persons
or another because it would be very elitist and I do not want this. It is just about trying
to send a message, now, after three years, from another perspective and from another
side. There it was just extremely critical, here it is 'look there is another way to live'
and that is what I try to convey with my life and my music, because both are tightly linked.
- The title of the ninth track of the album, 'We Live As We Dream', instinctively reminded
me of this quotation : 'people dream ; when they die, they wake up'. What does this sentence
evoke for you ? - It is very beautiful... It evokes some stuff
from Schnitzler, called, I think, 'double dream' in english. Double dream, or something
like that. How to say that ? It is a kind of perspective I am trying to develop, like
the lucid dream, yoga meditation and all of this. I am more and more fond of this side
of my personality, and I understand more and more that the limit between the two worlds
is not as well defined as we think.This is what happens when we play, and when there
is what we call 'one of those nights'. It is when the two worlds merge together, in
a certain way... - Well, thanks a lot Lucy, for according us this interview. It was very
nice.