Pomme
Offentliggjort af Uni-T Production
- Onsdag, november 24, 2027
- 20.00-23.00
- Zénith de Lille 1 Boulevard des Cites Unies, 59000 Lille, Frankrig
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Pomme, The Fortress
At thirty, Pomme signs her fifth album, for the first time taking sole responsibility for the artistic direction of her record, after sharing the production of her previous works with Waxx, Albin de la Simone, or Flavien Berger. She remains, however, supported on stage and in the studio by her fellow female musicians: Michelle Blades, Pauline Denize, Zoé Hochberg, and Corentin Ollivier. The title The Fortress has long inhabited the title, like a double image: a place that protects as much as it confines. This metaphor deepened during the filming of Peau d’homme, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Zanzim and Hubert, in which Pomme plays Blanche, a young woman who cross-dresses as a man. During this period, in which she also contributed to the soundtrack composed by Bryce Dessner (The National), she kept a double diary—her own and that of her character—from which this album partly arose.
Genesis and places of creation
Contrary to her previous albums (Fault Lines, focused on hypersensitivity, or Consolation, drawing on feminine figures), The Fortress was composed in a fragmented way: during tours, during a residency at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, in Aaron Dessner’s American studio, and then during a session at Château de la Haute-Borde, entirely run by women.
Narrative structure
The album unfolds in four chapters: childhood, love and traumas, crossing the wall, and then arriving on the other side, carried by a fictitious creature half-human, half-bat. Sheltered by humans in the past, it has lived imprisoned for centuries in a fortress until it decides to breach its walls. Its nature remains deliberately ambiguous (good, bad, or both), so that every listener may project themselves into it.
Influences
Pomme has immersed herself in medieval imagination, the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand’s musical films, the performances of La Horde and Peeping Tom, as well as Miyazaki’s cinema. On the musical side, she cites albums such as Vespertine by Björk, Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens, Pleasure by Feist, or Never for Ever by Kate Bush—works that are both ambitious and accessible.
Sound and recording
True to her style, she blends organic and synthetic textures, minimalism and lyricism. Some tracks, such as Catherine or Sans nous, are rooted in pure folk (the album was long envisioned as a piano-and-voice project), while others unfold with richer orchestration. The whole was recorded live at Studios de la Fabrique (in the south of France, a studio that has hosted Nick Cave, Arthur H, and Radiohead), to preserve the energy of live performances.
Themes addressed
Pomme tackles, without filter, personal and societal subjects: her difficult beginnings in the music industry, the solitude of the outsider, the exhaustion tied to hyperactivity, the symbolic passage of turning thirty, ecological anxiety, and current models of love.
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Uni-T Production@unitproduction
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Zénith de Lille
1 Boulevard des Cites Unies, 59000 Lille, Frankrig