Blandine Rinkel’s voice rests on the words of Valérie Lefèvre that her son, Gabriel Legeleux, has set to music.
A few months after his luminous Siècle (2025), Gabriel Legeleux, aka Superpoze, already unveils a new album, The Album of My Mother, matured since 2019. That year, during a stay in Normandy at his mother’s home, the musician discovered many texts she had written at different periods of her life, notably lyrics for songs.
Alongside the album he was working on at the time (Nova Cardinale, 2022), he began setting several of these texts to music. The idea quickly emerged, but bringing it to a full album took time to come to fruition.
A Birth at the Avignon Festival
In July 2023, tasked with collaborating with Blandine Rinkel to mount a show (L’Entente) presented at the Avignon Festival, Gabriel Legeleux shared the project in gestation with her. Two months later, the singer and writer sent the musician a text echoing the project — a text that would seal their artistic partnership.
Early 2024, the first demos took shape: Blandine Rinkel naturally became the voice – soft and insistent – of the songs written by Gabriel Legeleux’s mother. She also appears on the album, joining the choirs of several songs or speaking about her texts and her history through instrumental passages.
Based on a piano-synth-voice core, to which various instruments are added in places, The Album of My Mother oscillates between pop, French chanson, and neo-classical — “the sound of the childhood home,” says Gabriel Legeleux — with a delicate sensitivity.
The Album of My Mother (Banville/Bigwax). Release on April 24.
