Review
Genre and Mood
I Wanna is the meeting point of two French house acts, Joris Delacroix and Synapson, with the singer Schérazade on top. It belongs to deep house and the wider electronic house world both producers come from, and the feeling we hear in its title is longing, a want stated plainly, carried by the hypnotic patience of an album made with the night in mind.
Song Summary
The song is track seven of Night Visions, Delacroix’s 2018 album, and one of two he shares with another act, the other being Let You Down with Montmartre. The credits show how it was built: Delacroix programmed, arranged and produced it; Synapson, the Paris duo of Alexandre Chière and Paul Cucuron, are credited with programming and composition beside him; Schérazade sings and co-wrote the words with Pauline Lopez de Ayora. Alexandre Borde mixed it, as he mixed most of the album. At 4:57 it sits in the middle of the album’s running times, between a 2:40 interlude and the 6:59 Epoque.
Musical Breakdown
No review we found describes I Wanna section by section, so this page describes less than usual and stays with what the credits and the artists say.
Main Section
Two things are certain: a single credited voice, Schérazade’s, and a beat programmed by two production teams at once. How the vocal and the programming trade places over five minutes is for your own ears; the album’s tracks without a guest singer make a good comparison.
Concepts in Focus
The credit “Joris Delacroix & Synapson feat. Schérazade” is a small lesson in the <a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/featured-artist/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“featured-artist” title=“A guest performer credited on another artist’s track, usually as “feat.”: a rapper’s verse, a singer’s hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&B and dance music.“>featured artist. The ampersand joins two acts who share the production; feat. marks a guest who brings a voice. Here the guest is also an author, so the featured singer wrote part of what she sings.
Delacroix ties the album to club culture in his own words. Asked by Hands Up Electro what inspired Night Visions, he said he fed on what he had lived through, the nights where he plays, and that the idea was to transcribe what he feels almost every day. Before release he presented the album live at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, sold out, and on a tour of France. Compare Joris Delacroix – Epoque, the instrumental that closes the same record.
Artistic Context
Delacroix, born in 1987 in Montpellier, took piano lessons from the age of four and found electronic music at sixteen. Night Visions, his third album, came out on 22 June 2018 on Mercury Music Group in France, and Balance Music later wrote that on it he pushed his sound toward a universe between electronic trance, techno and melodic poetry. Synapson, formed in Paris in 2009, had French chart hits with Djon maya maï and All in You.
Impact and Reception
In the same interview, asked about his closeness to Feder, Synapson and The Avener, the producer of The Avener, Ane Brun – To Let Myself Go, Delacroix pointed to I Wanna: this, he said, was the track they were supposed to make all together. We found no review of the song itself. It is here as a friendship put on record; play it in the middle of Night Visions, where it belongs.
