David Ehrenstein presents ... Louis-Ronan Choisy Day

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Never heard of him before, but after seeing him in Le Refuge I am besotted with Louis-Ronan Choisy

Le Refuge






http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_(chanteur)





À l'âge de 14 ans, il monte son premier groupe, The Dreams. Il est organiste. Fortement marqué par le rock psychédélique 70s, le groupe s'orientera vers la pop et s'appellera désormais Mal de Cap. Il y joue la basse. Les premiers concerts s'enchaînent dans les petits clubs parisiens (Gibus, Erotika...). Viendra la période punk-glam-rock avec le groupe IKA et ses trois cents concerts à travers la France. Louis devient bassiste-chanteur. Un LP 7 titres, IKA (Sub Continental), sera distribué à Paris en 1997 chez quelques disquaires...

À l'âge de 22 ans, alors que le groupe IKA se sépare, il découvre Leonard Cohen et lit Céline... il décide de changer sa façon de chanter... sa voix devient grave, son écriture plus profonde. Son premier album, D'apparence en apparence (Columbia-SonyBMG), réalisé par Dorian Chaillou (producteur de son ancien groupe IKA), sortira en 2003. Il se présente alors par le simple prénom "Louis". Après quelques premières parties (Dani, Tom McRae, Cali, Sanseverino...) et festivals (Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Francofolies...), il écrit son deuxième album en discothèque et s'entoure d'Alexandre Azaria, connu entre autres pour ses musiques de films. La Nuit m'attend (Columbia-SonyBMG) sort en 2006. Le son est très pop et très "anglais". Expérimentant les sonorités électroniques pendant ses concerts, il demande à Yann Cortella, artiste-producer français, de travailler sur son prochain album dans cette nouvelle voie. Les Enfants du siècle (Neogene Music-EMI) parait en février 2008. C'est un disque electro-rock, sombre et angoissé.

En 2010, il est à l'affiche du film Le refuge de François Ozon avec Isabelle Carré, avec qui il enregistre la chanson titre. Il compose la bande originale du film. La même année, il sort son quatrième album, "Rivière de plumes" (Bonsaï Music/Karamazov/Harmonia Mundi) réalisé par le guitariste Frédéric Fuchs et lui-même. C'est un album pop-folk, plus lumineux et aérien.

Long story short: He is a singer and apparently he can also act -- a fact discovered by the redoubtable Francois Ozon -- who’s quite the babe himself..


Here he is with his two stars.




Here’s Louis-Ronan singing

Aileurs c’est ici




I’m not all discerning when it comes to French pop. I adore Serge Gainsbourg of course -- and the late and much-missed Barbara. But is Louis-Ronan any good? Hard to say. Too busy looking at him to listen to him all that much.

And that’s as it should be, right? Why ask any more of Beauty? It is its own raison d’etre.

That’s certainly the case with Louis-Ronan.





Love to see what Christophe Honore might do with him -- and you, Dennis.


Portrait 1




Portrait 2




Portrait 3




EPK La Nuit m’attend




Louis Reportage France 2 (2008)




En finalement




In the immortal words of Arthur Rimbaud “Je est une autre.”
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