Wallace Cleaver - Marcel Tour

"Marcel" is a seismic album, an intimate detonation in which Wallace Cleaver conveys the simultaneous blossoming of a musical achievement and a personal unfinishedness.

The artist does not confine himself to a rap influence: already moving within the genre across all its sub-genres and rhythms, he also explores the territory of song, pop and spoken word when necessity catches up with him.

Wallace Cleaver is accompanied by the music of his PR partner, a pianist whose sounds are by turns floating and airy, but also heavy and brutal when urgency demands it.

It is a record traversed by the passing of time: the time that gives life, as his niece is born, and the time that fades, as he bids farewell to his grandfather, finally closing the chapter of grief opened on "Merci".

Within "Marcel" lies a poetic rendering of a generational loop: someone leaves, someone arrives, and at the centre stands Wallace, recounting the fragile role of a man growing up between the two.

"Marcel" marks the album of blossoming: the one where Wallace asserts himself fully, where his artistic identity finally appears in its definitive form, the result of a decade of searching, doubt and reconstruction. His pen, his voice, his universe, everything converges.

The music bears witness to his experience in rap, but also to his trials as a man: son, uncle, grandson, friend, artist. © Asterios