When Julien Doré released
Aimée
last year, 280,000 sales and over 140 million cumulative streams, many focused on the environmental concerns that surface in the album.
But the DNA of the disc is in the idea of transmission.
The title comes from the first name of his grandmother, 101 years old today, and by moments we hear children's choirs.
The reissue of the album, released on November 26, with bonus tracks, titled
Aimée encore
, is quite logically sold for the benefit of
Blouses roses,
"
an association that has existed for 75 years, with volunteers who work in hospitals with children and nursing homes with the elderly,
”explains Julien Doré, met by AFP in Paris.
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Listening, comfort, distraction are offered by the Blouses Roses to brighten up "
a daily life of solitude or care
", explains the association on its site.
"
I told myself that my media speaking time could serve them, highlight them and allow them to attract volunteers,
" continues the singer-songwriter.
The profits of
Aimée still
will
be
used to finance projects and to train volunteers.
Roya Valley
In recent years, the 39-year-old artist has left Paris to settle in his native Cévennes and is rarer in promotion than at one time.
But he saw that his name could boost solidarity operations.
Nearly one million euros was thus collected via a raffle that he organized for the benefit of the disaster-stricken populations of the Roya valley in the Alpes-Maritimes, an area ravaged by flooding last year.
"
Give back the luck that I have,
" often comes up in his mouth.
Illustration in the new titles delivered in
Aimée encore
, comme
Nous
, revisited in acoustics with a young artist unknown to the general public, Silda.
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During confinement, he came across a video of this singer who lives in the Marne and who takes up
Us
with her kalimba, a wooden resonance box surmounted by iron slats.
“
His version was a mixture of radicalism and softness
”.
He could have simply reposted this video on his social networks.
But he finally offers him to sing
Nous
en duet on his reissued album.
Polynesia
“
Obviously, the idea is to find several moments on my tour, 50 dates in the Zenith model rooms, four dates in Bercy from February 2022, so that she comes to play on this song.
We can imagine in these large rooms the song that leaves with its kalimba, and the people who sing with us, that would be incredible
”.
That's all Julien Doré.
To propose in its reissue a duet,
Fatal Tear
, with a star, Eddy de Pretto, and a collaboration with a singer at the very beginning of its career.
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On a previous acoustic tour, in theaters, he had already given a chance to young amateur musicians who had never been on stage, by choosing them in the cities crossed according to videos sent upstream. It has always worked that way. Like that day when, in a restaurant in Polynesia, the day before a concert, he heard a guitarist singing. He invites her to drink a beer and sing a song the next day with him on stage.
He has not forgotten the name of this young local artist, Silvio Cicero.
Nor this Tahitian song
O oe to oe rima
which was popularized in Polynesia by Bobby Holcomb.
This title, "
which speaks of the hand that weaves, the one that cultivates, etc."
», Is thus found on
Aimée again
.
A way of transmitting, again, his gratitude to Polynesia for the welcome received there, "
something crazy
".
