End of 2002, David Delabrosse opens for Yann Tiersen on his "C'était ici" tour. From this experience emerges the need to record an album together. Later on, they meet in Paris where Yann produces and arranges the twelve songs written and composed by David in Nantes. This four-hands collaboration is also an opportunity to gather some talented guests : Françoiz Breut for the duos, Marc Sens on the guitar, Renaud Lhoest, Jean-François Assy and Nicolas Stevens on strings, Christian Quermalet on the drums, and F. Lor on the mix. "Originally, 13m2 was a song. A song I wrote when I first got to Nantes, about a guy finding himself lost in a tiny flat. This 13m2 horizon, first limited to a couple of boxes, a keyboard and a mattress, turns into a whole ocean as the song goes. This text was the starting point and quickly came the idea of writing the rest of the tale both with a realistic touch and a poetic one. Trying to escape his past, a man ends up in a city, a virgin ground where everything has to be rebuilt. As the songs of 13m2 evolve, Nantes, the city, becomes an island and its Robinson Crusoe faces a new reality made of encounters (the local social worker, the drunk one night stand lover...) and windows open on the past."
Born in Rennes, David Delabrosse today lives in Paris. After 10 years playing with his band (Delabrosse), and more than 300 gigs, he decides to tour on his own. Alone on stage, he opens for Yann Tiersen, Françoiz Breut and Jeanne Cherhal in 2003 and 2005. Today he tours on festival throughout France. With a guitar, a toy keyboard and a sampler, he unveils an intimist and personal repertoire. Stories in the shape of tunes where broken hearts meet futile seduction, candid childhood and an impatient thirty-year-old guy's resolutions.
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