Clara Ise. “There are things in life that make us rest, and others that make us more alive.”

Klara Yse is a complete artist: composer, singer, writer, poet, she succeeds in everything. After the album, Oceano Noxwhich was released in September 2023, followed by a tour, he is now in the news with a collection of poems, animal. He tells Joseph Goss, the deputy director Madame Figaro, how he got this idea. “Poems were written from my 20s to today. It wasn’t meant to be shared, that’s what makes them so bright.” Even if he had to retouch some of his writings;

Passionate about writing and music since childhood, Klara Yse expresses the things that make her “alive”. And there is no question of separating the two practices. “Writing was such a daily practice that informed my music, why not make it an object?” The artist, however, recognizes an undeniable difference between poetry and songs. “When we write a song, we create with music, and when we write a poem with silence.” Another challenge that the French artist took on.

animalBy Clara Yse, published by Seghers.