You’d think you’d always heard it, even though Baptiste Ventadour is only twenty-three years old. However, when he sings “We will try life in a big way for the beauty of the gesture”, it is an absolute evidence.
The irresistible folk impulse of a twelve-string, the clarity of emotions, the fervor of a youthful blues man’s voice, the limpidity of intentions.
We can easily guess that he was rocked by John Butler’s guitar on Ocean, that he listened to French alternative music, that he envies the freedom of the beat generation… We also feel that his relationship with the world was not built between blocks of flats and RER.
He comes from “one of the biggest towns in Corrèze – which is a very small town: Ussel”. Baptiste evolved in a profoundly artistic environment between his older brother, a draftsman, and his music school. Around thirteen years old, he discovers the grunge of the 90s, Neil Young and the brassenso-brélien heritage. “A basic musical capital” to which he adds a lot of electro and dub.
He delivers without detour Que reste-t-il ? which questions the ecological emergency, Le mal des grands boulevards, a poetic declaration of a lost love or Une vie. We will also find in the album “Dans la rue”, for which he called upon the pen of Grand Corps Malade.
To extend this journey in his so singular universe, Baptiste Ventadour has just unveiled the track À cette étoile, to be discovered below, in which he lays bare his hopes, his disillusions and his questionings. With this first album “Pour la beauté du geste”, Baptiste Ventadour naturally imposes himself as the next generation of the French scene. We have been waiting for him impatiently.
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