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’ve scribbled on scraps of paper full of crossings-out, those that follow us throughout our lives, spanning eras and their countless formats; there are those crafted by real humans, and all those that machines take mischievous pleasure in concocting, forming an ocean of suggestions impossible to still.

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