Sébastien Tellier takes the lead
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Watch Sébastien Tellier play La Ritournelle live
The French pop star performs his cult classic live at Red Bull Studios.
Written by Chris Parkin
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8 minSébastien Tellier performs La RitournelleThe enigmatic French pop wizard popped into Red Bull Studios Paris to perform his cult classic.
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To celebrate the return of Gallic pop wizard Sébastien Tellier, whose brand-new album L'Aventura is out this week, we've got an exclusive live performance of his much-loved classic La Ritournelle for you. It's taken from a bewitching live session that you can watch in full over at Red Bull Studios.
The prolific French pop magician is back again after his 2013 album Confection, and he's armed with yet another concept album.
The Gallic hero, who charmed all and sundry when he did battle with pirates and Hi-NRG folk-trance acts at Eurovision 2008, has already tackled politics, sexuality and religion on his previous albums. Now he's writing about an imaginary Brazil on L'Aventura.
Sébastien Tellier picks out a riff
Sébastien Tellier picks out a riff© Philippe Lévy
He told us recently that he got the idea while travelling between a gig and Rio de Janeiro's airport.
"The [taxi] driver played this great '70s Brazilian funk. Suddenly, I saw myself in this music. Brazilian music is very complicated, difficult chords and rhythms. But the result is light and simple. This is exactly my personality. And so I found a kind of perfection in the Brazilian music. It was an easy match."
We also asked Tellier about his all-time hero, Miles Davis. Listening to Miles inspired Tellier to, "Be far from the reality. Be close to the stars." Click on the story below to find out more.
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