French pop-rock group Louise Attaque is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their first successful album, with a re-release and a daily event to make the successes resound. Your invitation where The wind carries youa piece described as his “party passport”.
The formation stood out in the French musical landscape in the 1990s with a rock spirit in an acoustic packaging. Acoustic guitar and violin respond to each other, in the service of a weak voice and French texts.
For a quarter of a century, the Parisian formation released its first eponymous album on Friday, among other things, a deluxe version in a 28-page hardcover book. And on April 26, Louise Attaque will play six times the same day in the Parisian performance hall at the Elysée Montmartre. A voucher heart testlaughs Gaëtan Roussel, singer and guitarist.
We want to thank the people who have allowed us to live this adventure for 25 years, and when we celebrate our birthday, we invite peoplehe exclaimed.
An embodied pouch
On the cover of the album, there’s the face of a little girl with big eyes drawn to the wide strokes of bassist Robin Feix. The name Louise Attaque is a convoluted reference to a most beloved punk band, Violent Femmes. From the name came the idea that Louise was a character who represented us, we wanted the music to be embodied but not us on the coversaid Robin Feix.
The concept was pushed very far. Louise’s side was so practical, she wrote directly to the owners of the venues and bars where we wanted to play, in the style of a 7 year old girl.his confession. Louise asked them for example in her letter if her friends could go and play with her that day.
A small piece of paper changes everything. I had another band but we didn’t make it and one day there was this little ad left in a rehearsal studio they just left a little ad that my teammates told me laterrecalled violinist Arnaud Samuel.
French rock band looking for violinist, good level, references Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Violent Femmes, contact Robinhe pronounces.
It was a coincidence that we fell for Arnaudsaid Gaëtan Roussel.
An iconic achievement
Louise Attaque interacted enthusiastically on stage before releasing her record. We wanted to play live very fast, telling ourselves “we’re going to go public and they’ll come to us”, we wanted to do as many concerts as possible, even in small venues in the beginning.emphasized by Arnaud Samuel.
While no song is coming out, The wind carries you hooking the audience. In bars, we played it three or four times a night, we used it to set the mood, we saw it go straight, people came home who knew the wordsRobin Feix was exposed.
” This song is our passport to the next party we will do. “
The whole challenge for the band is their style on stage –very stripped down, pretty rough in the delivery of the songssynthesizes Gaëtan Roussel – is not broken on the disc.
Marc Thonon, boss of the Atmospheric label, has the intelligence that they don’t want to impact their music. She accepted their request to be produced by Gordon Gano, head of Violent Femmes.
He was the perfect producer, he used our flaws to make us look like him, Gordon understood that we just had to help us stay on our own.born of Gaëtan Roussel.
Louise Attaque thus reached the jackpot; the disc has sold over 3 million copies.
Source: Radio-Canada