Paléo: Back on Friday
Clara Luciani, Santa, Ben Mazué … A waltz of emotions blew on ASSE
There was a grooved pomegranate, a piano stolen and an intimate barefit, during the 4the 2025 Paléo Festival evening.
Marguerite or Rosette of Notre-Dame? Clara Luciani has turned into a assumed icon of the new female text against the backdrop of Beats or Pop.
Chantal Dervey
- Varied performance marked the 48e Edition of the Paléo Festival.
- Ben Mazué conquered the public with his intimate style on the vega scene.
- Clara Luciani delivered an energetic spectacle despite a sweet show.
- Santa transformed the vega scene into an impressive pyrotechnic show.
We were waiting for waves, it was drops of emotion that moistened the plain of ASSE during the 48th edition of the Paléo Festival Friday evening. Evening dedicated to authors with texts and lyricists, new polymorphic generation and notes which gradually finds its status.
Not much to remember from Danakil’s passage, at an hour when festival-goers are barely on the move, still very dissipated. At the end of the afternoon, it is a little communion at the hive. The family, circus and deliciously bohemian family annex welcomes “La Quincaillerie Parpassanton”, signed by the company of the second. Good humor … because it always feels good to see mom on stage with a toilet bowl on your head.
First serious shock – intimate, however – with Ben Mazué on the new Vega scene.
Joseph Carlucci
First serious shock – intimate, however – with Ben Mazué On the new vega scene. The Niçois – the former doctor wrote his first texts when he still exercised palliative care – had pierced with “the ideal woman” in 2017, a big blow of sincerity, then “paradise” in 2020, a break in the sense that the caregiver this time healed the wounds of his separation from the woman of his life. In Paléo, the tone is talkative, frank. Immodest. The scene inhabited with an economy of means which contrasts with the flood of special effects that a simple rusty mind had summoned here on Tuesday. So much so that we barely spot the crowd conquered from the first songs, literally with some land cleaks that swing in the air. Why not. “Lift their hands those who live a heartache.”
A few dozen arms in the air. “It’s hard. But it is proof that we still have a heart that lives. Now those who have recovered. “
Half of the crowd rises. Balm in the heart. Another shock. The artistic brother of great sick body prevails, to the point that he will be forgiven a sound system that drowns the syllables and a sad simulated duo with apple, projected in profile in the background. His place was not there.
Sweet refrain for Clara Luciani
At 9:15 p.m., on the big stage: Clara Luciani. The “varietoche” star of the evening has deployed beautiful energies, even if she was a little lost in an overly sweet refrain. The plain was however overflowing. Long stoic, she was unleashed on “La Granada” (2018), a feminist hymn may already be aged. The heiress of Françoise Hardy nevertheless lives in space, summons both the alternative bass of a dolly – heaven and lack – as well as the vocal power of Sanson. Clara Luciani has fun taking up Abba as supervised by two guitarists who walk in sentry. She surprises by singing happy birthday to her drummer. She wakes up with “La Baie”, rocks with “everything for me”, electrifies with “still breathe”. And shows up in sometimes disconcerting warrior postures.
We were much more turned upside down by the Tunisian Emelentrenched in the dome, mistress of vocalizations, often in Capella or Captain of Galère on his war drums in front of an audience armed with Palestinian flags. Power naturally and undoubtedly the most modern image of what is protest on stage.
Santa’s piano flew away
Last real shock with Santathe other Niçoise amply sisle. The thirty-something manages to seduce skeptics with its “salty popcorn”, also transforming Vega into a mini-princes when it takes up Johnny Hallyday-yes. Pyrotechnic debauchery, silver cape, wind in the hair. With the difference that she flies to her piano and not in Harley.
Nyon, July 24, 2025. Paléo Festival. The singer Santa in concert on the vega scene.
Chantal Dervey
New conquest of the public, sprayed with glitter. Santa, a pioneer of a new French variety with an old -fashioned taste of yesteryear, does not hesitate to get out of her pre -square for a real crowd bath which brings her to the Régie, from where she heats the yet another man -conquered audience. Pop is rich, expressive (too much but it is wanted). Huge popular success. Here in Paléo, the night does not lie.
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