The pain of love: "Who is next in line to get hurt / Who is next in line to get speared", asks Benjamin Clementine in "Then I heard a bachelor's cry" and stages a love drama of the finest kind in three acts. He begins to describe the melancholy of loneliness in his warm voice. His "Who" sounds like a cry of pain. And then suddenly he reaches for the keys and unleashes a huge storm of apologies and fears for the future, ending with a "Who ..." sung in a head voice. In the third act, we return to the first theme. The wait for the next pain can begin.
Benjamin Clementine is of Ghanaian origin. As a 2 meter tall giant with a towering hairstyle, he is a real phenomenon. His voice, which is characterized by warmth and effortless intensity, is also an absolute phenomenon.
His life story begins in London, where he was born in 1988 and lived for 20 years until he decided to move to the city of love after a failed relationship: Paris. But only because it was close to London. Here he lived as a homeless person for a while and made music in bars, trains or outdoors until he caught the attention of some important people and recorded the album "At least for now". It's quite something and I like some of the tracks on it. When I heard the record for the first time, I always thought: "What is he doing?" He tells us a bit about it in the following interview.