It is one of the beautiful names of the French song of recent years. Somewhere between Dominique A and the Innocents, at the crossroads of folk and rock, La Maison Tellier will delight lovers of inspired texts who have the gift, by their setting to music, to make our banal little bits of life a little higher. Proof is with their 5th album "Avalanche" that they will sing, among others, throughout the France in the coming weeks. 
Maupassant, sourness and lightness
Formed in Normandy around 2004, the group, composed of 5 members (trumpet, double bass, drums, guitar and vocals), write their texts inspired by literature (their name is inspired by Maupassant) as well as black humor. Melancholic in appearance, their music exudes an inhabited and perched song ("High, low fragile", extract from "Avalanche"), with some illuminations, especially expressed by trumpets. Sometimes bitterness gives way to anger, to the solemnity "The house of our fathers", extract from "Beauty for all"), to a kind of light and ironic disarray, never neglecting elevation (trumpets, always, in the excellent "A good Frenchman" – "Beauty for all").
"Avalanche" or the need for elevation
In the end, La Maison Tellier summed up in one song would be "A la petite semaine", taken from their eponymous album of 2010: this mixture of desolate choruses and disillusionment with politics never balks at one or two joyful peaks or by a liberating jubilation. Very good moments to pass, which reminds us of the need for regular elevation in its function to make our daily lives more spiritual and peaceful. There will always be this person that we will find there by chance, and that we will find smiling, beautiful again, we will then sing " Beautiful Again", brilliant and joyful electronicizing tube of "Avalanche". Maison Tellier will perform throughout the France, with a visit to La Cigale in Paris on March 17.
