“The way the world is run needs to be looked at,” he says. On “Save the Whale”, Cocker sings of founding “a new civilisation”. People are dying out there, don’t get too pleased with yourself.” One part of me wanted to be like: ‘Nailed it! On the zeitgeist!’ But then you’re like, hold on, that’s not a very human attitude. The track, about someone stuck indoors on a Saturday night (with the classic Cockerism “damn this claustrophobia/ cos I should be disrobing ya”), suddenly looked eerily prescient. “House Music All Night Long”, the lead single from the album, tapped into the nation’s quarantined psyche. For a long time, dancing on stage was the only exercise I ever got.” “You turn your mind off and your body takes over. “I’ve always thought dancing is a really good way of forgetting stuff,” says Cocker. The odd technical glitch aside, Domestic Disco was a heartening example of needs-must communal enterprise. With lockdown still in its early stages, he took to DJing live on Instagram every Saturday with his partner, the artist Kim Sion. That’s why we’re all here, right?īut he has been productive. His album was delayed, his touring plans are on hold and he didn’t see his 17-year-old son Albert, who lives in Paris with Cocker’s fashion designer ex-wife Camille Bidault-Waddington, for more than two months. “It’s in a weird part of it now, isn’t it? Everyone is interpreting it in their different ways. Like most people, Cocker has had a mixed lockdown. His unhurried Yorkshire tones are immediately recognisable, though, particularly to anyone who enjoyed his long-running Sunday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music. We are chatting over Zoom, although with the video turned off (Cocker finds it too distracting to see himself talk). I’m trying to find out stuff about myself.” “Have I done everything that I want to do with my life? A lot of these songs are me asking questions. “As you get older, you start to think, what does it mean?” he says. That’s why we’re all here, right?”īut more than ever, his gaze is existential. There are still grimy narratives, such as the down-and-out 90s Camden tale of “Swanky Modes”, and lusty observation is never far away. Seven off-centre, danceable grooves, honed and partly recorded on the road, the album finds Cocker in philosophical flux. His new band Jarv Is… release their debut album, Beyond the Pale, today. Y’know, my caveman times.” ‘If we leave it to capitalism to sort out the fall-out from this pandemic, well, it’s not a cheery prospect’ “I was going back to the beginnings of what it was like to be a band. “It felt like a good equivalent,” he says. And that set me off”.īy which he means he was jolted into doing something he hadn’t since 2009: writing songs, getting a band together, and playing some gigs. How come looking at these scratchy markings on a wall had this emotional impact on me? I didn’t really understand why that would be.
Pre-order The French Dispatch (Original Soundtrack).“Just a small carving of a horse’s head, but I was looking at this thing, and this wave of emotion came over me. Jarvis Cocker’s Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top is a tribute to French pop music and a musical extension of The French Dispatch that includes rendering of songs made known by a gallery of great French pop stars, including Dutronc (“Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous”), Francois Hardy (“Mon Ami La Rose”), Serge Gainsbourg (“Requiem Pour Un Con”) Brigitte Bardot (“Contact”) as well as songs by Dalida & Alain Delon, Marie LaFôret, Nino Ferrer & Radiah, Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem, Claude Channes and Max Berlin.
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Renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is featured in the film’s score and contributes a series of stunning solos on the recordings. Music plays a key and distinct role in each of the “chapters” of the film. It celebrates writers and the thrill of great storytelling. The French Dispatch revolves around a fictitious expatriate magazine that tells three stories published in this legendary journal. The 2xLP vinyl edition will follow in early 2022. With an original score by Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, the film’s original soundtrack will be released on CD and all digital platforms. It’s out on October 22, along with Chansons d’Ennui Tip Top and the film score by Alexandre Desplat. Last month, Wes Anderson revealed a thrilling animated visual for “Aline,” sung by Cocker from the film. Originally written and performed by French singer-songwriter Christophe, the song also appears on Chansons d’Ennui Tip Top.įollowing multiple pandemic delays, The French Dispatch premiered to rave reviews at Cannes over the summer.
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