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MUTEK 2024 | Marie Davidson Puts All The Pieces Together

by Alain Brunet

Marie Davidson had disappeared from my radar during COVID, shortly after the release of her last studio recording and associated show, Renegade Breakdown, on the Ninja Tune label. At the time, the pop/rock/French chanson turn seemed a brave and welcome risk, but… I had the feeling that something was missing from this release.

All the elements of her pop culture were already present in her work, but much more tenuous. Then there was the Persona EP in 2021, a sort of dream pop mixed with French pop, Victoria Legrand meets France Gall, with the same impression of an unfinished exercise. Last April, her Bandcamp account provided clues to her current direction: Y.A.A.M. marks a return to her electronic inclinations. So there….

With the excellent show we were treated to on Thursday, we can already conclude that all facets of his art found their ideal place in this hellish set. From what we know of his vast palette, we can say that this integration is top-notch.

Marie Davidson’s edifice is topped by a new floor. The violence of noise, the violent drones, the extremely pronounced chords. The multi-referential dimension of electronics: heavy techno, house, UK garage, jungle, drum’n’bass, breakbeat, you name it. Direct references to French pop culture. The punk, almost gothic attitude, the bursts of distortion, the heavy 4/4. The movements on stage, the choreographed interventions on the machines, the infectious harangues. The sung voice, the spoken voice, the acquired authority.

Belted to her keyboards and machines, Marie heats up the pot with thick, saturated sounds, then takes the microphone for most of the rest of her show. Her songs are for the most part self-reflexive, cathartic in many cases, expressed in a straightforward way that doesn’t exclude poetry in the reflection on oneself, one’s profession as an artist and the world around us. It’s this unique blend that we love. It’s also the performer’s ease on stage and hellish presence, her power of attraction. Very solid!

Photo Credit: Vivien Gaumand

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