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Le Contre-Fil

Yanis Kaci
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Yanis Kaci
Pop2:45April 19, 2026
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Influenced by Vianney, Julien Doré, Benjamin Biolay, Georges Brassens. Yanis Kaci writes songs that smell of sea salt and diesel. The son of a Marseille dockworker and a seamstress, he dropped out of university to tell the stories of his port-city neighborhood, Le Panier, on a guitar inherited from his Algerian grandfather. His music is about the things people mend—fishing nets, engines, and relationships—and what happens when they can’t. These are hushed, plainspoken confessions from a city at the edge of the sea.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
La manie de compter les lattes du volet, rue de la Joliette.
Un, deux, trois... sept. Si le compte est bon, la journée sera correcte.
La porte de l'armoire qui grince juste assez pour la laisser ouverte.
Un courant d'air pour les fantômes, pour pas qu'ils se sentent à l'étroit, c'est bête.

[Chorus]
Mais ce soir, je marche à contre-fil.
Je prends toute la place que je peux.
C'est un assemblage fragile,
Mais le bois travaille un peu.

[Verse 2]
Ne jamais poser le pain à l'envers, sacrilège sur la nappe en toile.
Le sel gemme dans ma poche gauche, pour les mauvaises étoiles.
Ma grand-mère a dit une fois, sur le quai, avec le mistral dans la voix :
« Mon petit, on est tous faits du même bois de guingois. »

[Chorus]
Mais ce soir, je marche à contre-fil.
Je prends toute la place que je peux.
C'est un assemblage fragile,
Mais le bois travaille un peu.

[Bridge]
C'est un plan de coupe sans les mesures, un établi plein d'échardes.
Juste une collection de nœuds et de fissures que l'on se garde.
Un silence raboté trop fin, une excuse qui tient sur un clou.
Et moi qui pensais être le seul à être un peu fou.

[Outro]
Je marche à contre-fil...
Je prends toute la place...

About Yanis Kaci

Yanis Kaci writes songs that smell of sea salt and diesel. The son of a Marseille dockworker and a seamstress, he dropped out of university to tell the stories of his port-city neighborhood, Le Panier, on a guitar inherited from his Algerian grandfather. His music is about the things people mend—fishing nets, engines, and relationships—and what happens when they can’t. These are hushed…

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