[1] L'Aventurier evokes the world of Bob Morane, mentioning characters (Bill Ballantine [fr], Miss Ylang-Ylang) and titles from his novels.
[7] According to the manuscript published in the book Kissing my songs (Flammarion, 2011), L'Aventurier was written by Nicola Sirkis in December 1981.,[8] at a time when Bob Morane's aura had already begun to wither [9] Nicola Sirkis had discovered Bob Morane, a hero created by the Belgian novelist Henri Vernes for the pocket collection "Marabout Junior, when he was in boarding school in Belgium in 12 years.
"At that age, for us, it could only be a model, we dreamed of becoming Bob Morane," said Nicola Sirkis, who was also marked by another adventurer, but this time of cinema: Indiana Jones.
The song, along with several others from the album L'Aventurier, was recorded at the Aguessau studio, in Paris, in September 1982, during a session that was to be devoted solely to their first single, "Dizzidence Politik".
[13] On Antenna 2, the broadcast Platine 45, devoted to music videos, broadcasts that of L'Aventurier February 16, 1983, before a special show devoted to the group Indochina on March 11, 1983, Musically, Sud Ouest judged that this piece is distinguished by its "ultra dancing, bouncy and playful pop rock"[14] The journalist Rebecca Manzoni notes that L'Aventurier "Introduces in the introduction a ritornello inspired by Asia, supported by futuristic sounds (...), followed by a guitar riff composed by Dominique Nicolas, a riff so effective that it allows to identify the song[15] In 2017, Le Point felt that the song remains "the best known of the band"[16] "Since 1982, this song continues to resonate on the dance floors of discotheques or parties with friends, when it is the turn of the tubes of the eighties," notes his side "Ouest France"[17] When she mixed as a DJ in parties, the Italian actress Asia Argento tells that she was playing this song[18]