Last modified: 2009-10-02 by ivan sache
Keywords: music | obispo (pascal) | drapeau (le) | captain samourai flower |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
Captain Samouraï Flower is the latest incarnation of the French
singer and songwriter Pascal Obispo (b. 1965; this is his real name,
in spite of being the perfect anagram of Pablo Picasso).
After having released his first record in 1990, Obispo became
increasingly popular in the 1990s and started in 1997 a fruitful
collaboration with several artists, including Florent Pagny, Johnny
Halliday, Patricia Kaas, Natasha Saint-Pier, Zazie... Obispo is known
for his commitment in AIDS prevention and research.
On 20 April 2009, Pascal Obispo, under the name of Captain Samouraï Flower, released on the Internet his new record, Le Drapeau (The flag). The cover of the record shows Captain Samouraï Flower standing in the desert, holding a big green flag with a flower emblem skewed to the hoist, made of a green and blue representation of the heart surrounded by yellow petals. Captain Samouraï Flower reflects the concern of Obispo for environmental issues, being "a messenger of the new generation, an idealist very concerned by ecology."
The videoclip of the song Le Drapeau, whose chorus includes tous le même drapeau (all [under] the same flag) shows several copies of the flag, in most instances with 13 petals. As on the cover, the flag appears only as a painting.
Captain Samouraï Flower will start a tour in spring 2010, in which the
real flag is expected to appear.
Ivan Sache, 17 May 2009