The Ogres of Barback is almost thirty years of a fundamentally singular story deeply marked with the seal of freedom, at all levels. It is also the story of siblings [two brothers and their twin sisters], extremely dense in projects and rich in varied experiences. While staying away from the media radar, they have been able, in complete independence, to bring together a very large, loyal and intergenerational audience through more than 2,000 concerts – including 10 Olympia – selling more than a million albums [including more than 400,000 for Pitt Ocha albums alone].
Since 1994, they have defended, without any concession to the "spirit of the times", their conception of French song: decompartmentalized and open to the world, whether it is "classical" or mixed, acoustic or electric, wink an eye to the glorious ancients or directly in touch with the sounds of the new millennium, poetic or excited, loving or protesting, for young people or for adults or for both at the same time...
It is on their favorite playground, the one where we expose ourselves, where we share, where we exchange, that they were born as artists and that they fully exist: the stage . It is on the road playing, all the time, everywhere and in multiple forms [notably under their own big top - already - almost twenty years ago...] that the Ogres met, retained and expanded this audience to which they never cease to show their deep respect. In particular by regularly varying the artistic proposals they make, showing an astonishing ability to reinvent themselves without ever getting lost and to constantly develop new and atypical projects, of which meeting seems to be the key word.
All these years have reinforced what was, initially, only an intuition among them: yes, it is possible to make your artistic project long-term by following your own path. Beyond having their own performance venue when leaving for this tour under their big top, the Ogres also have all the other cards in hand [production and distribution of their records, production and distribution of their shows, promotion, publishing]. And – this is perhaps the most powerful of their singularities – their story has established itself as a perfect alternative model of career development.
So far, the Ogres have been Alice, Mathilde, Sam and Fred Burguière. But… Léo, their little brother who is a multi-instrumentalist like them, joins his elders on this project and officially becomes the 5th Ogre!
