Dominique A

Twenty-five years of career and fifteen albums have not dulled his ability to surprise us. A leading figure and essential architect of demanding and principled French song, Dominique A makes his grand return to La Luciole.

With his new opus "Spirales" (2026), the artist takes a captivating turn, temporarily leaving fiction behind to return to center stage through an autobiographical repertoire of total sincerity, carried by a rawer, more physical, and resolutely rock sound. What is his story?

Everything began in June 2024 during a nostalgic walk through Provins, his native town.

While crossing the public garden of his childhood, a click occurs: the visceral need to revisit the places of his youth (Provins, Nantes) and celebrate friendships found again after decades of silence.

To materialize this return to roots, the studio choice imposed itself as an evidence: the Garage Hermétique, near Nantes, the very place where Dominique A mixed thirty-five years earlier his seminal debut album, "La Fossette".

Designed in osmosis with his stage musicians, this 15th studio album has fed on the intensity of live and a healthy determination not to sand everything down with computer.

Moving away from trends, Dominique A traces a perfect curve—a spiral—around his own memories to make them resonate better with our time. What atmosphere to expect on stage? Dominique A's concert promises to be an earthly, embodied, and vibrant experience.

Surrounded by a high-caliber quartet (keyboards, double bass, drums), the artist brings the electric guitar back to the forefront to inject roughness, relief, and healthy texture into his compositions.

The live show navigates fluidly between intimacy and collective power, at the intersection of: indie rock and new-wave sonorities inherited from the late 80s, hypnotic and organic rhythmics inspired by German motorik sound, poetic and profound lyrics that make us re