CD | Mounia Raoui & Areski | The Carrying Kids

Anyone who has seen them, Mounia and Areski, on Rue Saint-Louis-en-l’Île or elsewhere, with his eternal small hat and her newsboy cap, quickly grasps the nature of their bond.

Between the actress-author and the legendary composer, the sun has been shining for a long time. "Areski and I have been friends for some years now; we can say we are celebrating our tenth anniversary," she smiles between two hand-rolled cigarettes, "and even more, since we met in 2013. And it was almost halfway through this relationship that I approached him for a joint project intended to nourish our friendship and help it grow. I felt we needed to work together. I proposed a theatrical and musical show for which he would compose all the music. This resulted in Les Mômes Porteurs and this album is its soundtrack, or more precisely, it was conceived and dreamed as a sound film."

However, after twenty-three albums, most of them with his wife and accomplice Brigitte Fontaine, the score delivered here by Areski is once again particularly inspired; he himself rightly acknowledges its "rock, trance, and uppercut dimension."

The musicians, including the aptly named Dondieu Divin on piano and violin, and of course Areski’s percussion, accompany and respond to the world of the young woman that she had already powerfully revealed with Le dernier jour où j’étais petite (The Last Day I Was Little), a poetic manifesto brought to the stage. One finds her singular way of kneading language...

TRACKLIST:

1. MES HUMANITÉS
2. CHŒUR DE MÔMES
3. NOUBA
4. TU COMPRENDS ?
5. 24 DÉCEMBRE

6. POSTIT
7. OH LA LA
8. LA MÉMOIRE
9. LAVOMATIQUE
10. LA CHANSON
11.MA CHAMBRE DE BATAILLE