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New album performance by L'Or du Commun member
Can life in a modern, fast-paced world, where the future appeals to the imagination and the past is often idealised, still be combined with the present? This question with multiple solutions infiltrates every nook and cranny of Swing's latest album, to be released in early December. With Au Revoir Siméon, the Brussels rapper delivers a personal and uncompromising work. An introspective and addictive exercise, as close to feelings as possible, built on the ruins of a dilapidated romance.
Between soaring R'n'B, house or minimal techno injections, he sketches alternatives and invents other ways of singing and living. Fourteen restorative songs Swing uses to process his disillusionment with a rediscovered taste for the real, the true. Seize the day, live now!
© Tone Verswijvel