Interview – Album Issue: Labyrinth is a party. Fire singer. Chicton tells the creative revival of his group.
Dandy looks and malicious smiles under Chevron mustache, fiery pop rock band singer and lyric. Chatton has always been elective in connection with Jean-paint and surrealists. Composer, but the author of collections of poems, Arthur Teboul placed a minute of poems in the heart of Paris, where he received passers-by in the room he was a poems gathered in the book. Spillway – minute poems. Today with his group of fire. Chitston, he provides Labyrinth, The most successful educational albums of its creation in 2011. About the rare sincerity, the pieces of this Paris Quintet on the benches of the school pay tribute to “amazing”. Worn through a musical rainbow, headings such asLet’s see (2 million streams) invites you to keep you.
Madame Figaro. – The tone of your texts has changed. We were accustomed to sharp irony, a universe, which is inhabited by absurd and strange. On the other hand, Labyrinth is perceived spontaneously in the first degree. Tell …
Arthur Teboul. – I have a little excitement because it’s right, nothing has been spoiled in this disk. Since our first album, we no longer feel this feeling of urgency. The need to prepare children and the verdict. The irony is a kind of protective shield against funny. We are released. We wanted to talk to the heart, find the spontaneous of our beginnings. Life puts slaps that can serve as a motor to find further, further, and return to clarity. It is not easy not to get clarity in the music project. You get a little to yourself approaching the true meaning of things.
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What caused you to this click?
We reached a key age at his forties. Between our last album, Clay palace (2021) and Labyrinth, Many things have happened in our lives. Great joys such as the birth and tears of a child like a friend’s death. We have matured. During the creation of the album, there was also a removal of our manager, Jean-Philippi Aldard, who was our compass. A few months after his burial I had meningitis that touched my legs. I couldn’t walk. I stayed in the hospital for a week, in neurology until they found what I had. These are the moments of life when we wonder what we have done so far and where we want to go. We wanted to jump to the first degree and celebrate Joie de Vivre. Ten years ago I wouldn’t dare. But in the end, today was not shocked, not only not disappointing and unreasonable.
Which inspired the name of the fire. Chateton?
English poet from the 18th centurysimmer Century, Thomas Chatron. Magnetic man with copper hair and Androgynous properties. He is represented, lying on his bed, painter Henry Wallis. His face is calm, expressive, and he seems to be asleep. But by looking better, we realize that he is dead. Placed on the ground, there is an empty arsenic bottle at the end of its wired arm. I liked this contrast between death and its expression that is full of fire. I like paradoxes, they wake up and make it much more gift.
How would you describe the identity of the group?
It is a love story that lasted fifteen years. Like all pairs of stories, he remembers injuries, moments when it is almost over. Rock Group is both a gift and a load, you have to accept the ascents and falls. We face chaos, which was also when creating that disk, so much that we can think about, have we still able to move together? Beautiful is that every time it’s music that saves us, not our cause.
“We wanted to talk to the heart, to find the spontaneous of our beginning”
Arthur Teboul
What was your musical evolution from four albums?
Fire: Chateton is a kind of poetic voice Kaleidoscope. We hear an advanced rock (pink flames and radio head), electro, jazz, folk. We are also inspired by Bowie Pop and French song by Brouhaens and Gainsbourg. We have recognized each other since school. At the beginning of the school year, I sat next to the wolf in the LIKE Lui-Le-Grand in Paris, now a guitarist and a group composer. I shared my readings with him, including the Biography of Erasmus by Stephen Zuig, and we exchanged. It was the beginning of a common dream. Our songs are born of a collective decision, no one has the last word.
Labyrinth Current pop, more and more hybrid. What do you think?
That’s right. French POP and Rock are no longer limited to style. They match genres in one piece. LabyrinthFor example, it is a multiple catalog. There are about thirty tools, then synths, rhythms, new wave reminders and treatment of music or smiths. There is no more division, hioburia is everywhere. Even on stage, with rappers like the tombs, which are accompanied by an electric guitarist.
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Music superpowers are known to our brain. What brings you?
During the periods when the world is bad, the music becomes a utopian car again. Dream area and shelter. I noticed that in the age of prosperity and peace. But when you feel like a collapse, people face each other to love each other, know his friend, the music finds funny but powerful. Music today tells us that we have the right to believe in love, gladly full of joy.
Labyrinth, Barclay. Concert on February 11, 2026 at Accor Arena in Paris.
Source: Le Figaro
