World Festival: Astereotyping in showcase

Stanislas arrived wearing a T-shirt from their new album, their fourth, Patami . "It's the name of a character I invented a long time ago," he explains in his astonishing, deep, enveloping voice. "Patami is every child's friend, a full-time Santa Claus." Stanislas Carmont is one of the four singer-songwriters, along with Claire Ottaway, Aurélien Lobjoit, and Yohann Goetzmann, of the group Astéréotypie. And like them, he is autistic.

For more than ten years, the collective has been touring the stages of France – Olympia, Bataclan, etc. – and seducing festival audiences – Sonic Protest, Trans Musicales, Vieilles Charrues – with its disarming punchlines ( “No guy in the Drôme looks like Brad Pitt. Real life is annoying” ). and his sincere hymns ( “I’m not making fun of you, I’m laughing at something else” ), against a backdrop of scathing riffs.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, when a young autistic woman asked her during the "Rencontres du Papotin" if she thought she was a good singer, replied: "No... But I learned very early on that faults are often qualities; that you have to transform them into qualities." A response like a mise en abyme of a show - a television version of the news program of the same name - whose journalists are on the autism spectrum, their disability producing an uninhibited and liberating speech. And of which the group Astéréotypie is a bit like the musical, post-punk version.

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