Tété
Be it fake news, conspiracy theories, state, industrial or domestic lies, the news keep reminding us that these distortions of reality are now part of our daily life.
Tété's new album comes as a reverse question to this unforeseen present future: "How can one be sure about one's perception?"
Hence the Fauthentique concept, the expression being french for "falsely authentic".
The record, comes across as an epic of the fake, a sort of melodic make-believe odyssey, built upon organic programming. Falsely naive. Falsely acoustic. Fauthentique.
Tété grew up listening to The Beatles, Tom Waits and jazz singers (his mom’s favorites).
The arrival of Hip Hop in France in the early 90's is his first musical epiphany.Turned 16 he starts playing guitar and writes his first songs. A few years later he starts performing in bars and considers making a living out of it. He willfully says that: Happiness is at hand's reach if you're ready to accept it.
A devoted guitarist since his teenage years, Tété releases his first album in 2001: L'air de Rien. His consecration comes two years later with À la faveur de l'automne. Le sacre de Lemmings et autres contes de la lisière is released in 2006: A collection of tales that takes him places, such as Japan, Australia, UK and the USA.
More minimalist than the previous albums, Le premier clair de l’aube is recorded in the USA and celebrates the blues and folk melodies he used to love as a young man.
Tété's never stopped since then – touring and songwriting for himself and others (Gaël Faure, Fréro Delavega, Mayra Andrade…), or hosting TV shows (such as« Tété ou Dédé with André Manoukian which took the duet throughout the world to interview musicians on behalf of french national TV)
Having played multiple tours that flew him around the world (Japan, Australia...) and having sold more than 500.000 copies, Tété comes up with a fifth album: Nu là-bas. The pop effort, with heavier arrangements is released in 2013.
Les Chroniques de Pierrot Lunaire following up in 2016, aims at going back to the source: floating between blues and folk, his clear voice connects with the simplicity and the minimalism of his early material.
Tété then allows himself a break after yet another world tour (Japan again, Canada, Germany, Holland..) to breathe a little, fill himself up with new music and spend quality time with his beloved ones, taking a step back from a world where everything goes a bit too fast at times, to preserve himself from what some refer to as "attention burn out".
Within these few months, the singer-songwriter churns out 12 new songs, written/composed and produced by himself at his own personal studio alongside with long time fellow Johan Dalgaard.
And the press said….
"If you like pop sensibilities with lyrical depth, Tété should definitely be on your radar." - Soultrain.
"Tété ought to be crowned France’s folk king. " - Paste Magazine.
"Tété is a very special artist" - Music Express Canada.
"Both anthemnic and melodic, no matter whether you understand the lyrics or not." - Music Express Canada.
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