With “Comme un Azur dans l’Âme,” Romain Gutsy returns home to his language and the emotional terrain that first defined him as an artist. After years of singing in English, the French singer-songwriter steps back into his native tongue with a song that feels rebirth and revelation. This tender ballad marks the beginning of a new chapter for Gutsy, one that hints at the upcoming all-French album planned for 2026. Here, he strips everything down to essentials: an intimate, enveloping instrumental base, a poetic lyricism that breathes, and his deep, warm voice that caresses each word like a secret. The result is a song that feels as if it were painted in watercolour — delicate, translucent, yet rich with emotion.
The track opens like a sigh. Gentle chords shimmer beneath Gutsy’s voice, setting an atmosphere that’s sensual and melancholic. His phrasing feels instinctive, unhurried, as though he’s tracing the shape of a memory rather than reciting lines. “Comme un azur dans l’âme / Comme un frisson sur l’océan,” he sings, his voice glowing with quiet reverence. There’s something timeless in this imagery — a love that lingers like a blue hue in the soul, a tremor rippling across still water. Singer Dweech joins him with her clear, feminine tone, and their voices intertwine like moonlight on a calm sea. Together, they embody the tension between presence and absence, tenderness and ache, making the song as much about longing as about love itself.
Gutsy’s songwriting has always carried a literary depth, and “Comme un Azur dans l’Âme” is no exception. His lyrics evoke the same poetic sensibility that once placed artists like Alain Bashung, Jean-Louis Murat, and Dominique A at the crossroads of chanson and existential reflection. Yet Gutsy remains distinct — unclassifiable, even. He navigates between the raw and the refined, between romantic imagery and grounded sincerity, with a modesty that disarms. There is no grand dramatisation here; instead, Gutsy captures the soft pulse of emotion, the stillness that follows passion, the way time slows when two souls meet. The instrumentation — minimal yet lush — mirrors this restraint. Acoustic textures drift around the vocals, a quiet percussion hums beneath, and the arrangement leaves ample space for silence, allowing the song to breathe.
What’s striking about this release is how naturally Gutsy reclaims his native language. His French doesn’t sound like a stylistic experiment but like a return to his truest form of expression. For listeners familiar with his English-language works such as “Eloisa” or “Blew My Mind,” this shift feels surprising and inevitable. It’s as if, after years of roaming through folk and rock landscapes in another tongue, he’s come home to rediscover intimacy through words that carry the weight of childhood and memory. The influence of his long, storied career — from his early days with Les Affamés to sharing stages with Calvin Russell and Soul Asylum — can be felt here not as nostalgia but as quiet wisdom. His voice, aged and assured, no longer chases trends; it simply tells truths.
In “Comme un Azur dans l’Âme,” Romain Gutsy achieves what many artists spend a lifetime seeking: balance. Between the masculine and the feminine, the past and the present, the personal and the universal. It’s a song that doesn’t demand attention but earns it, gently enveloping listeners in a soft blue melancholy. Play it on a rainy afternoon, or during the fragile hour between day and night, and you’ll understand its beauty — not as something loud or showy, but as a quiet revelation. With this new phase of his career, Gutsy reminds us that music’s greatest power often lies in its subtlety, in its ability to hold emotion without breaking it. “Comme un Azur dans l’Âme” is a love song and a promise: the dawn of a new era for an artist who, after decades of exploration, has found his most authentic voice.
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