Entrer dans la couleur” is a rock-fiction concert featuring an extraordinary duo. Drawing heavily on the novel “Les Furtifs”, the chiselled lyrics of this politically charged concert cut through the issues of our time like a blade. As the songs unfold, they weave the fabric of the reconnection with the living that Alain Damasio calls for and that Yan Péchin achieves.

On electric and acoustic guitar: Yan Péchin, Alain Bashung’s key musician, who has accompanied the likes of Rachid Taha, Brigitte Fontaine, Thiéfaine, Tricky, Miossec and Higelin… Thirty-five years into his career, with a rack of fifteen pedals under his feet and gold in his hands, Yan is one of France’s very last Guitar Heroes. He’s a monster capable of pulling out of his sleeve a folk ballad, a muffled drone, an acid layer or a punk riff, a luminous chorus followed by a rock melody, always offering himself a burst of improvisation as if, for him, the only notes that count weren’t yet written down, but inscribed in his nerves like a crackling scream that he’s going to unleash with his guitar. For him, the only score is the text.

Text and voice by Alain Damasio, the cult author of French SF, three-time winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, who in just two novels – La Horde du Contrevent and Les Furtifs – has surpassed 500,000 readers and won over audiences and critics alike. A committed figure, here he puts his physical and “poethic” writing into words, all assonance and rhythmic echoes, and lets his texts rustle with his taste for stealth, volte-face and life in the face of this society of control that traces us while securing us, the better to anaesthetize us in our technococons.

Whether stories, slams or manifestos, both urge us to step out of our resignations and into color with them.
“To be less the one who burns than the one who rustles”, and to give voice to this intuition: ”if there is an ethic, as a human being, it is to be worthy of the sublime gift of being alive. And to embody it, to deploy its powers as far as possible”.

Together on stage, Damasio & Péchin bring the metal of words and notes to the point of incandescence, where the voice becomes liquid, and the sounds subtle layers of lava that find their way into our heads and veins.

The future is now. More than a show, an initiation to the world to come.