Larochellière Luke received the Felix 2010 (the equivalent of a Victoire de la Musique in Quebec) the songwriter of the year for the disc A TOI IN MY HEAD released in August 2009. An album of disturbing beauty that may well mark the decade be the YELLOW (Jean-Pierre Ferland) 2000s.
The singer responds within a few naive questions arising while listening to his latest songs.
The album begins with a song break, lost Beauty . Neither type lament Do not leave me (Brel), nor allegiance kind Well, it's over (A uber t) is a song in mind, cold, almost a hand . Welcome Larochellière 2010?
Luke of Larochellière - When I wrote the song Beauty lost, I understood that I had just opened a new chapter to my production. That song had the potential to surprise my audience and win a new one. Also, put at the beginning of the album and the first single was chosen as it seemed to me, send a clear message to the listeners. The rest of the things I was right about that.
"It will well, the fracture yes / She will come a bill " c haunt you in Rage in . Behind this game title words, lies a threat, a danger to us hanging nose ...
- In the song Rage in , I sing that appearances are often misleading and that everything has a price ... starting with contempt. The events of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath have shown us plenty and unfortunately did not finish it.
Rage in is carried by a remarkable cello part. " A bow on my veins " sang Willie Nelson ... The album, very acoustic, r OmpT with your previous productions.
- When it came time to write the songs on this album, I remembered the words of my good friend and director of all my albums, Marc Pérusse: "If you always do things the same so, you might strongly to achieve the same results. " Also, I had the will to achieve something else. From the writing, I decided to start with the texts, that I did not before. Although I talk about my writing since I started, they had until this album was always in the service of predetermined melodies. For this project, I had said that the remark had come before and, anyway, after seven albums, if I had nothing to say, it was not worth the trouble to make it an eighth. It seems I still have things to say ... Then, when it came time to orchestrate the songs, a more orchestral sound and seemed a good way to mark a break. Moreover, it was the approach that put those songs in the most value. I also want something a little "out of time."
You got me is the second single from the disc and done, as Beauty lost , the subject of a video clip. Clips from your debut, are still s particu larly treated , scripted.
- Work on the image is not really a priority for me, although I come from there: I'm doing my studies in Fine Arts ... By cons, as the image is part of my job as well as use, as well as what is done well. We try to say the least.
Thinking about releasing a DVD your clips? There would be what to do!
- I do not know if it's worth the investment and release a DVD of my videos ... today is the leading broadcaster Youtube, and being accessible to all.
You also produced the illustrations of the libretto. We feel that e to you, the disk as an object not a negligible value.
- I decided to get involved a bit more in the video album ONE YOU IN MY HEAD , doing illustrations. I think if the album art is of interest in itself, people are more likely to want to get it. In this sense, we see a return of vinyl records at this time indicating the commitment to the "object" to the extent that it is interesting.
Regarding piracy, I think it is not out of the woods and that before this is resolved, a royalty on the tools of piracy (MP3, iPod, iPhone and even web servers) that would Designers paid to help us keep our heads above water.
In this regard, a hundred artists, many tenors (Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier, Richard Séguin, Ariane Moffatt, Luke Plamondon, Michel Rivard ...) went by bus to Ottawa on November 30 last to challenge Bill C-32 on copyright in Canada. And highlight the fact that the fee of $ 0.29 charged on each CD virgin is now passed since it sells almost over ... CD
- With new technology, any Battle of copyright is to be remade. Otherwise, the death of the trade that is announced ... and a certain idea of culture as well. The artists are engaged, but we are facing a right-wing government to which culture and artisans seem mostly to be enemies to shoot down ... Anyway, it will not be simple.
(Singers Quebec bound for Ottawa) I saw entangled in a rather bitter observation several topics, societal, environmental, political, even your loved ones can be found in ... Song topics discussed previously in Cash City , Save my â me or my generation . Bluesy songs, committed almost how Cabrel pe riod TRAVEL PHOTOS . Francis Cabrel, precisely, you sing with city Cash duet on the album VOICE CROSS released in 2006, when you revisit your repertoire with several artists also Gilles Vigneault, Michel Rivard ...
- This album of covers of my success as a duo has just launched a fashion album of duets in Quebec ... My musical influences are very much those of North America, where I live. Of course, the fact that I am French and I have the desire to use my language and well music house she wears, made me interested in French music. I try to be faithful to these two poles, which some artists (Sinatra) are pretty good.
What would you advise Quebec singers who want to listen to discover?
- Right now, I really like the work of a group like Karkwa, or artists like Vincent Vallières and Yann Perreau.
The French have discovered you City Cash (# 10 in Top February 1992), two months before they find another singer from Quebec, Jean Leloup, whose 1990 song also reach the top of the tenth place in April . Then the other one as you are made to forget the French ... Why are the albums that followed SAVE MY SOUL , which bears Cash City, but also so fragile , which became a standard in Quebec, have they gone unnoticed s in France?
- After Cash City , And the album SAVE MY SOUL who had pretty well in France, there were two other albums to be released on the label Umlaut; album LOS ANGELES (1993) and NEW HERO (1996 ) . Already the bill LOS ANGELES was much more "rock" and had just discharged the public rather "pop" that I had in France. For the future, the sales figures is not at the rendezvous, the record label Umlaut simply did not renew the contract and nobody wanted to take over there. From my side, the constant travel over the ocean began to get tired and I did not fight to save my assets. Good personal decision, bad business decision ... It is true that here, I have several "classic" to my credit that are unknown in France. I do not know if these songs will eventually make their way there ... or how it could happen: many are called, few chosen.
Who To stop being afraid when you say " I've left everything I denied everything / T'ai left my keys, my life and my soul ?
- you no longer have to fear is another song post September 11, 2001. She speaks of the abandoning our common sense and a certain ethic in the name of a false sense of security. But everyone can adapt to it and make it his own reading!
No love, my love about a man in love with a homosexual woman. Finally a topic rarely addressed in the song! There was The bourgeoisie sensations (2009) Calogero on words of Pierre Lapointe ... Or Pedal Maid (2010) Emmanuelle Seigner, the counterpart of your song! ... Indiscreet question: Not love my love, confidence or invention?
- Non- love my love comes from a true story ... more than once! I fed a lot in my experience for this album and I was able to find out later that most personal stories are often also the most universal.
" So much for the future, we will have the walls / To save our culture, our museums and banks / Our schools and our tanks ..." ( Walls ). Vive le Quebec libre ?
- Walls not talking about Quebec independence, but these walls is needed when the wind as we were planted back in the storm. With the implied invitation to stop and sow the wind ... As for the independence of Quebec, I am a citizen of the world Quebecers. I believe that to embrace the world and offer him something, he must belong to oneself oneself. And that our difference is our greatest asset, which is not too much in the sense of a movement underway to standardize the time where economic efficiency might be the only acceptable measure ...
A you in my head is a model of song, and performing, almost magnetic! With this purpose, universal, united to that: "For see you sometimes, even now / I'm talking about me, like right now / When I te tu / You who are not there . "
- A you in my head seemed to be the best title to give the album as there is in this sentence about the essence of the album, that is to say, the presence other and its impact in what we have more intimate. This is me speaking, but I think it is you, there's us.
The next song is subtitled "Song written crow butterfly " ...
- Like a beautiful snowy night talking about unattainable love, and the phrase "Song written crow butterfly" was a message sent at that time, inaccessible to a person ...
You received November 8, 2010 Felix the Songwriter of the Year (Felix are Victories Music of Quebec song). Are you aware of having written a landmark disc?
- Many people, including several brothers and sisters as well as several journalists tell me that this album there is one important. I think I'll believe them. Certainly, I think it's my favorite in my discography and I feel that I have long fun to sing those songs on stage.
Last question, whose answer may be speaking for those who do not know: What are your three favorite songs, ones that you would like to be the author?
- Hard to answer this question ... Let's say for today, Crying , At night I lie and The cherry season .
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Felix Photo: Pascal Ratthé
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