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With a pianist father, conductor and director of the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory, Mathieu Herzog was on the rails of the classic. Hateful of all the medals that can be imagined to obtain as a young violist, it is by discovering police at 15 that Message in a Bottle He opens his ears: “I had never listened to anything outside the classic repertoire. Police sparked an appetite in me: hard-rock, pop, jazz, pop, I wanted to taste everything. ” Located on a train between Lausanne and Geneva-Aerport, Mathieu Herzog tells us about the details of this first tilting.
Abandoning his viola for the guitar and the piano, he juggles a few years between the repertoires, working on an arrangement for brass one day, accompanying a jazz singer in a bar next. The musician is in search of an absolute, beyond the styles. Chance makes him meet the arranger Jean Claudric, who then worked for Michel Sardou. “I was able to play my compositions to him”. Thanks to this contact, the musician puts a toe in this middle of shadow arrangers. “I tribaled myself with a synth in the publisher’s office to make them hear my music,” recalls the musician.