He is the most irreducible cantor of Occitania. Continuing his fight for the culture of the Pays d’Oc, Francis Cabrel has composed a new song Un Morceau de Sicre, a tribute to his friend Claude Sicre, the founder of the folk music group, the Fabulous Trobadors.
This tribute song will be published on own account by Baboo Music, a family label born in the village of Astaffort where Francis Cabrel has his ties and of which he was a municipal councilor from 1989 to 2004. This title like no other will be released in 45 rpm vinyl and will be accompanied by a clip directed by the composer. The cover of the disc, also imagined and designed by the Occitan troubadour in person, will exhibit the flight of a bird, symbol of freedom, in the sky of a landscape in the south-west of France.
In a Morceau de Sicre Francis Cabrel not only wanted to magnify Claude Sicre’s talent as a transmitter, but he also, in his own nostalgic vein, wanted to tell about his bohemian life as a young poet in the streets of Toulouse. In the press release, he tells why he chose the Pink City as the setting for his song: “It is a tribute to this important city for me. Between rue Caraman and rue Matabiau, I sang and recorded my first songs there.”
An excerpt from Francis Cabrel’s Trobador Tour
For Francis Cabrel, the Occitan culture, the Occitan soul, the Occitan language have become over time his alpha and his omega. In the little word of presentation of his new song he wrote his words which translate the genesis of his inspiration: “A piece of Sicre therefore of positivity, benevolence, humor, erudition, all that in your black coffee… »
Francis Cabrel sings The Ink of Your Eyes in 1981
