La Playlist Invisible by Paul Lucas – Ramsès Kefi

For this new episode of La Playlist Invisible, Paul Lucas welcomes journalist and author Ramsès Kefi. Having worked with the editorial teams of Bondy Blog and Rue89, the daily Libération and the magazine XXI, Ramsès’ pen moves between reportage, investigations, portraits, and chance encounters.

Whether it’s about music, politics, sports, or a tuna-Catalan sandwich, Ramsès Kefi knows how to capture the poetry and the reality of the margins, the peripheries, and the unclassifiable places. His debut novel Quatre jours sans ma mère, published on August 21, 2025, has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Renaudot and the Fnac Novel Award.

In the 24-track playlist he has curated for Cravan, we revisit the artists he listened to while writing: from the pimp rap of Suga Free, to the hard-hitting style of Rat Luciano, and the lyricism of Ennio Morricone.

There are those we have scribbled on pieces of paper full of corrections, those that follow us throughout our lives, crossing eras and their countless formats, those that real humans craft, and all those that machines take great pleasure in concocting, forming an ocean of proposals impossible to calm.

Today, playlists are everywhere: on our phones, on platforms, on the radio, in bars and cafes, in the metro, in taxis, and even in our beds. Amid this overabundance, a few questions remain: where can we find uniqueness away from algorithms? How can we create genuine collisions?