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Interview: Emilie Simon and The DØ bring Tour De Force to Adelaide!

In a one-off experience, Adelaide Festival Centre will showcasing the charm of provincial France and the attitude of Paris in a show not to be missed. So Frenchy So Chic Live will feature electronic music sensation and femme fatale Emilie Simon strutting her stuff with Indie-pop outfit The DØ in a double bill of magnifique’ proportions

Emilie SImon WebIn a one-off experience, Adelaide Festival Centre will showcasing the charm of provincial France and the attitude of Paris in a show not to be missed. So Frenchy So Chic Live will feature electronic music sensation and femme fatale Emilie Simon strutting her stuff with Indie-pop outfit The DØ in a double bill of magnifique’ proportions.

In a Tête-à-tête via phone with Glam Adelaide from Paris after a performance, Emilie Simon is excited to be returning to Australia for the fourth time and particularly this special visit to Adelaide. “Australian audiences I find are very warm, welcoming, genuinely interested in the songs, and curious about French culture. I feel that they really get into it, they’re very sweet and I’m happy knowing that they’re so receptive. It’s beautiful to be so far from home and to have them make me feel so welcome.”

Simon has just released a new album, ‘Mue’ which is her sixth studio album. For a taste of what to expect, take a listen to ‘Menteur’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oAqJDz8oqo from the album. Simon has a presence and vocal range that bares similarity to Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride) and Angie Hart (Frente)- pleasant and soulful, yet at times intense. “Meu is inspired by the picture of Paris, and all the arrangements are motivated by what I feel when I think of beautiful Paris. It’s very feminine, a lot of strings and percussion, and electronics of course. It’s mainly strings that feature heavily on the album, along with the vocals and melody. Oh, and it’s all in French!” Simon joyfully quips.

‘Mue’ takes a slightly different path than her previous albums and in particular ‘Vegetal’, where all the lyrics relate to plants and there are also sounds taken from actual plants in an experimentally bold project. “My sense of the moment is really where it comes from, ‘it was much the same with the March Of The Penguins soundtrack (which won a César Award for Best Original Score!) where ice was the theme so I tried to project that environment musically, something that reminded me of the cold Antarctic landscape.”

For Simon, music is self-admittedly about an exploratory experience rather than simply making music for the sake of it, and she also likes the spontaneous, organic approach to writing music. “ I like the thought of being able to reinvent (my sound) each album. My music is very visual and cinematographic, I see colours and movement…like a painting, and it’s also a little feminine.”

For a night of par excellence Parisienne delights, this will be an evening that will bring Joie de vivre to those with a penchant for French delights.

 

So Frenchy, So Chic Live! A Double Bill Featuring Emilie Simon and The DØ

Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre

15 January 2014 at Her Majesty’s Theatre. 7.30pm

Tickets

A Res $59.90, Groups of 6+ $54.90, GreenRoom $30, Season subscription A Res $54.90, Season subscription A Res Conc $49.90

Transaction Fees apply: $6.96 Online & Adelaide Festival Centre Box Office, $8.95 BASS Outlets and phone, 2.5% credit card processing fee.

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Interviewed by Darren Hassan

Twitter: @DazzHassan

 

 

 

 

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