Artist: Claire Diterzi
Album: Fille De
Label: Je Garde Le Chien
Link: https://jegardelechien.fr/
Style: French chanson
Claire Touzi Dit Terzi, while still in high school, began to evolve within the bands of the city of Tours. She made a name for herself in Forguette Mi Note, with whom she recorded two albums, then founded the band Dit Terzi with Sylvestre Perrusson and Erick Pigeard. The three of them laid the foundations for her musical style with an eponymous album released in 2000. But it was as a solo artist that she met with great critical acclaim, through her proximity to the world of theatre and by placing great importance on the staging of her artistic creations. Notably, she set a show by Philippe Decouflé to music and received the “Grand Prix du Disque” from the Académie Charles Cros for her 2006 album.
The album Fille De is the soundtrack to Claire Diterzi’s new show. The latter is inspired by Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina; she wraps her feminist ode in delicate constructions made of electronic music and French pop, letting her voice twirl between rebellious accents and fragility. To give her music its full character, she adds an oriental inspiration, which is more present in the few passages where the male choir echoes – in form only – the songs of the Orthodox Church. An atypical artist, Claire Diterzi enchants us once again with her world full of references and lightness.
If there is one adjective to describe this music, it is ‘delicate’. In Fille De, delicacy is everywhere, in the singer’s voice, in the restraint of the electronic sounds, in the touch of the guitar or bass strings. The soundscape unfolds gently, without rushing, particularly when the small electronic noises of “L’épouse inépousée” appear, or the tinkling at the end of the album, or when the choir’s voices bring the warmth of their acoustic textures. The production manages to maintain a link between the organic sounds of the voices and acoustic instruments and the starker sounds of the machines, allowing the listener to better immerse themselves in the artist’s intimate world.
