Grand voyage désorganisé

“I went into the studio with my musicians in December 2019 without any songs or lyrics, just some embryonic ideas and a desire to explore,” Patrice Michaud tells Apple Music about the almost accidental making of his fourth album. “It’s the first time I’ve gone about it that way. Without planning it, we laid the groundwork for Grand voyage désorganisé.” The rest of the album—whose title roughly translates to “big disorganized journey”—unfolded remotely during lockdown, when the collaborators were hundreds of miles apart. “It’s an album that’s had several lives before seeing the light of day, and the title is appropriate,” the Gaspé-area singer-songwriter says. “I wasn’t afraid to try new things and go deeper than usual, because I knew that the process would naturally bring me back to who I am fundamentally.” Here he invites us along on the trip, telling the story behind each of the LP’s tracks. "1977" “It’s a good example of the musical experimentation I’ve been doing. It all started with a piano loop, something that’s done more in electronic and hip-hop music than in pop and rock songs. It’s the vocal melody that gives the song its structure. I chose to begin the album with this one because I wanted something full of light and love. It also talks about an event which, in a way, played the role of common thread for the project, and that’s the launch of the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes in 1977, which I’m really moved by because of what it evokes in terms of our lives down here on Earth.” "Vous êtes ici" “This track is like the exercise of looking at yourself in the mirror. Without moralizing, and with humour, I examine our relationship with our image, our well-being, our comfort. I wanted to do a sort of wake-up call with a refrain that’s got drive, that’s rallying, with string arrangements in the forefront, a bit like The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony.’” "Golden Record" “What fascinates me about the Voyager probes is that they contain objects that act as a callin