What is the common denominator between Starmania, at Seine Musicale until the end of January 2024, and Eddy de Pretto, his album Heart crash is one of the successes of the winter? Between Juliette Armanet and Iliona, two of the most prominent singers of the moment? The big names Philippe Katerine and Chilly Gonzales? Bernard Lavilliers and The Marseillaise Olympic Games 2024? One name: Victor Le Masne.
For all of these projects and artists, the forty-year-old, who was part of the duo Housse de Racket, is in turn composer, musical director, arranger, musician, engineer and studio producer. So many labels that make him the shady architect of today’s French-speaking pop scene.
Unknown to the general public, he shaped the French sound of the time. “I’m interested in finding the right tone, emphasizes the one who primarily describes himself as “Composer”. Whether you sit down at the piano or are looking for chords and a suitable melody – there is the right note for everyone. »
Accuracy as a refrain
The right word, the right tone… With Victor Le Masne, the concept of precision comes back like a refrain. It is a legacy of the conservatory’s rigor and its classical and jazz training “secret weapon”. “I enjoy making a beat on a TR-808 as much as I do writing a score for a string quartet. he analyses. Maybe it’s this double culture that artists expect from me. In fact, I’m pretty “turnkey.” I can help you from the beginning of the production process to the end. »
Especially when it comes to clarifying complicated situations, Victor Le Masne is unsurpassed. It happens that an artist gets lost along the way when he embarks on a project and lacks perspective. The Frenchman Kavinsky, to whom we owe this Pipe Night call, popularized by the film’s soundtrack Drive (2011) approached the composer to complete his second album. Reborn (2022).
“I had models aside and blocked them. It was Gaspard Augé from the Judicial Duo who advised me to see him so that he could do what I couldn’t do. It’s quicker for me to whistle the melody than to play it. He knows how to do everything, play everything. And since we have similar taste in music, he always suggested things to me that were in the direction I wanted. It was a good time. »
“A real Swiss Army knife”
With Juliette Armanet, for whom Victor Le Masne in particular produced the album Burn the fire (2021), the meeting was also fruitful. It took place on the 2017 tour of the French electronic group Paradis. He was the drummer, she was the opening act. “One day I asked him to take over I feel it coming, The Weeknd’s song with Daft Punk and that’s how it started,” he explains. The title is called I feel you coming. Victor Le Masne even appears in the clip wearing a blue cargo shirt.
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