With Surf, released last June*, Etienne Daho further cemented his legend, delivering his lost album, one of those lost, inevitably cult albums that dot the shores of Pop history.
Begun in 2004, resumed in 2006, and completed over time, Surf appears as an ode to a lost paradise, where land and sea merge at dusk, when time stretches towards infinity. The covers that comprise it (but can we call them covers since Etienne Daho has made them his own) are gems that shine brightly (Denis Wilson's Falling In Love, but also The Way You Look Tonight and Honeymoon, borrowed from Air and Phoenix, not to mention Mancini's monumental Moonriver).
On November 20th, Surf Deluxe Remastered will be released as an augmented version, offering other covers (I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams, Blue Moon Of Kentucky popularized by Elvis Presley, Heathen by David Bowie, among others) and also the unreleased track 'Son silence en dit long**, written by Etienne Daho in 2006. Another carousel of songs from his intimate odyssey.
The 20-track double vinyl edition will include a download card for the unreleased track Come To Me Slowly.
* The first edition of Surf was released exclusively as part of Record Store Day, on limited edition vinyl in June 2020.
TRACKLISTING SIDE A
1 FALLING IN LOVE
2 A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN
3 THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
4 MY GIRL HAS GONE
5 MOON RIVER SIDE B
1 CIRRUS MINOR
2 HONEYMOON
3 I CANT ESCAPE FROM YOU
4 YOU CHOOSE
5 GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY SIDE C
1 SON SILENCE EN DIT LONG
2 THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY
3 BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY
4 IM SO LONESOME
I COULD CRY
5 HEATHEN SIDE D
1 WE HAVE ALL THE TIME
IN THE WORLD
2 TAKE A LOOK
3 SOMEDAY
4 YOU THINK I STILL CARE
(SHE THINKS I STILL CARE)
5 HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE