My Art Belongs to Dad

But who is Lou?

Writer, melody-maker, performer, Lou Salomé has the lyrics, the music and a voice, an unclassifiable genre for an artist who does not want to be boxed in. An artist and an album at once sophisticated and raw, intellectual and animalistic, serious and light, stripped back and orchestrated…

In her lyrics, Lou Salomé recounts stories and emotions, asking questions of herself and of us. She tells her stories and those of us all…yours, mine, of here or elsewhere. She sings in French and in English. She mixes distorted guitar strings, jazz and pop.Her music? Optimistic and idealistic, inspired by Gainsbourg, Les Mitsouko, Bashung, Sting, Police, and the soul music of the great jazz singers.

Written entirely by the artist, the lyrics are

intimate and sensitive. The music, all

co-composed, does not seek to be affiliated

with one particular musical genre, it rather

endeavors to provoke an emotional journey

through the different pictures she paints. We

move between pop, the French ‘chanson’,

jazz, rock and folk with touches from the hand

of Carine Bonnefoy (pianist, arranger, jazz

composer and head of an orchestra of renowned talent) who gives artistic direction and the

arrangements for certain tracks (‘Blue red & yellow’, ‘Cerisier blanc’, ‘Je n’ai pas d’inspiration’ and ‘Ma

phobie’). The voice also makes the prevailing theme sometimes appear to almost be spoken,

sometimes let loose from deep in the chest. The music is spontaneous, simple, and accessible. And if

the name of the artist makes reference to Lou Andréas Salomé who was one of the first women to be

interested in psychoanalysis and feminism, a contemporary of Nietzsche, it’s all the better to capture the

freedom of spirit of a woman who lived in that era, something which the artist has taken by choice.

‘My Art Belongs to Dad’

This tribute to her late father, who passed away in 2009 due to overexposure to asbestos, has all the makings of a song of hope, a celebration of life, a mixture of fragility and the forces of life.

An emotional journey which has universal meaning in the themes addressed: life, hope, love and grief expressed in their various forms. A full voice, powerful and fragile all at once, like the moments in life which we all live through.

Several musicians have collaborated in the making of this album, recording for which was finished in March 2012:

As artistic director, on piano and percussion: Carine BonnefoyThe co-composers: Frédéric Najman, Elisabeth Pelegrin, JPaul BondyfalatThe musicians: Julien Weill-Morey (guitar), Nicolas Pain (double bass, strings and bass), Romain Mariani (drums)Musicians confirmed as generously participating: Damien Verherve (trombone), Jean Gobinet (trumpet), Ninon Valder (flute), Johan Renard (violin) et Clément Petit (cello), Déborah Tanguy (vocals).The sound engineer, mixing and mastering: Max Jesion from Bopcity Studio, Pré-St-Gervais (Paris)

My ART belongs to DAD

A 12 track album: in French and in English, an intimate and sensitive album which evokes universal emotions.

BiographyLou Salomé, the singer, emerged at the end of April 2011 on the Paris scene (Le

Réservoir, Le Sunset, Le Baiser Salé…) where she was freshly arrived from her

native South to face the Parisian public. One year later, the album is here; “My ART

belongs to DAD”.

Ironically in this tale, she has trusted artistic direction to her childhood friend Carine

Bonnefoy, renowned pianist and jazz composer. She went to the same school as

Carine and sang with her for 12 years in a band. Losing touch for 20 years and

finding each other again thanks to Myspace, it’s the music which has united them

anew.

When she was young, little Lou Salomé left her voice resonating in the stairwells of

her parental home in the South of France. Her classmate, Carine Bonnefoy, who

played saxophone was not headed down a wrong path when she lead her band;

Lou Salomé was already singing in it! Later, at 17, Lou Salomé joined another cover

group from Toulon where she was lead singer.

Then she passed her Baccalaureate and started to work in communications, a job

she liked. She stayed there for 10 years without thinking about singing any more.

But it was really in 2005 that Lou Salomé returned to music by singing with new pop

rock cover musicians. She then took the initials C.C. in homage to Serge Gainsbourg, the writer who inspired

her most. Her first song ‘Tic tac mania’ was released in 2008 at the same time as her first album of the same

name. Marked by an obsession with time, it was for her the sign of a true step into the music world ‘which

it was finally time to take’.

2008, a debut album “Tic tac mania”

‘Tic tac mania’, released in stores in 2008, was the debut album, an album of urgency which Lou Salomé,

who had not yet acquired her stage name, wrote entirely herself and co-composed. The identity of Lou

Salomé wasn’t yet there, nor her world, but the first step towards singing, writing and music was

finally taken.

‘It had to be released quickly and it’s finally out. The singing talent was apparent from early childhood, so

evident that I have never done anything more than sing for myself for all these years. Then, one day, I under-

stood that I must commit myself to an existence as a singer and dare to share those things which have

always resonated with me’.

In 2009, her father, who was suffering from cancer linked to asbestos, died. It’s an earthquake which marks

one of the principle sources of the inspiration for the lyrics and music of her second album.

No record company or label, but Ekitart!No record company or label. Lou Salomé followed the self-production route and decided to set up a production company in 2012 with two friends to frame her artistic process. The record industry is in crisis, so you might as well take your destiny into your own hands and do your-self what you hope a record company or a label, which would probably never meet your expectations, would do! Ekitart supports Lou Salomé and the cheery team members make the most of their respective abili-ties in communications, the web and the creation of a business to build a strategy and move forward.

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