Sur les cendres danser

Description

All fire, all blue. If one had to portray Jil Caplan’s new album with colors, those would be them. Fire like the blaze of anger and the inferno of passion, blue like the infinite azure and the bruises of the soul. Ember and blues, flame and spleen. Sensuality and melancholy should also be added, swirling in a whirlwind of emotions. Like a black sun, as dark as it is incandescent. Dancing on the ashes, to find joy again, to take flight, to simply live again. After the electro-pop of Derrière la porte and the manouche jazz of Imparfaite, her previous albums, Jil Caplan returns to her eternal loves, a return to the sources that have always nourished her: guitar-driven folk rock, carnal ballads, subtle harmonies, somewhere between Paul McCartney and Jeff Buckley. All this thanks to the magic of a meeting: that of Émilie Marsh, musician, composer, songwriter and performer, who was for a long time the guitarist and arranger for the singer Dani, who passed away too soon, but whose benevolent spirit hovers over the duo. A complicity driven by creative ardor: Émilie on the music, Jil on the lyrics, a fused tandem, alter egos, notes and words, arrangements woven by the two of them in the same ideal setting. There are humming bass lines and acidic guitars, backing vocals like a swell and heartbeats, graceful melodies and poignant flights, velvet and thorns, folk and rock, urban country, making for enduring songs. A variety of colors, nuances and ranges, edged by the fervent voice of a free and intimate Jil Caplan. With Sur les cendres danser, Jil Caplan signs one of her best albums, undoubtedly the most beautiful and the most personal. Elegance, emotion, energy, poetry, everything that resembles her. Everything that brings us together.