We had to wait four long years before the culmination of The Night of Waking Up . Indeed, Oxmo Puccino offers today its eighth career album, now available in North America. As a result, the rapper with sharp lucidity will be on Quebec soil somewhere in 2020, the official dates will be announced shortly.

The night of awakening is an enlightened confession in which the artist reveals himself in a disturbing way. The album sheds light on an Oxmo Puccino with a sharp gaze, a lived experience on edge with words and imbued with raw wisdom. Less metaphorical than his two previous albums, his words are deep and clear, against a backdrop of great objectivity. Even if the pieces are on the whole darker, they leave room for festive upsurges, such as the magnification of everyday life. Over the past three years, in the productivist frenzy of rap, Oxmo has allowed itself the luxury of maturing its project: "After having chained albums and concerts for 10 years, it was a question of refining and taking the necessary time, detached from the turning winds and alluring sirens. “ The night of awakening is a real rap album with multiple variations, exploded by musical explorations and its stylistic figures. His talent for storytelling peaks in each of his songs. While the contemplation of the world is his playground.

Oxmo Puccino has surrounded himself with Eddie Purple , one of his musical partners with whom he has collaborated since 2010, an artist with multiple influences, the latter is transcended by pure groove. " For several months, we looked for the direction, worked on the repertoire, multiplied the experiments " Even if the development of the new musical pieces was first articulated in the heart of a Parisian room, the essence really took shape when the acolytes moved to a lodging in the suburbs. "We needed to get away from Paris, from the demands and family issues to think only about music," says Oxmo . As for the production, it was provided by the young prodigy: Phazz (Orelsan, Nisak, Koba LaD). “With Phazz, everything happened very naturally. He was on the Orelsan tour with Eddie Purple. He listened to the tracks and brought us perspective on the one hand and also a current vision of my music with a lot of respect and high standards”. The trio then stormed Studio Besco for several sessions to shape the identity and sound environment of La nuit du reveille .

Prestigious collaborations marked by camaraderie define the contours of this new album. This notably includes the presence of Orelsan on the play Ma Life . “ Orelsan has been a friend for 10 years. The time had come to fix that for the future”, as well as that of Gaël Faye , on Parce que la vie , with Brazilian trap accents, then Oxmo invites Caballero & JeanJass on the suave and ethereal piece Social Club .

This magnificently well-crafted work oscillates between a past that the artist contemplates placidly and a promising and sparkling future. Oxmo knows its position and remembers the distance covered. This album is a manifesto to the right to sing and to exist, to live and share one's nostalgia and to build a destiny of its own.

Album tracks:

1. The right to sing
2. Can't
3. Social club (feat. Caballero & JeanJass)
4. Bear Skin
5. The navel
6. Ma life (feat. Orelsan)
7. Ali Baba
8. At your age
9. Epistolary Arrow
10. 10.000
11. Too Much Love
12. The Awakening
13. Sensual Horizon
14. Because life (feat. Gaël Faye)
15. I'm Not Coming Back