Étienne Coppée is a kind of UFO in the musical landscape, a UFO of softness and slowness that forces us to stop and listen to it.
Winner of the Francouvertes last spring, we discovered him with his beautiful song The weather will be nice tomorrow, which was used in the final scene of the series Can you hear me ? and which appeared on the microalbum Indian summer of your life, launched in 2020.
The singer-songwriter continues in this same highly melancholy vein with And we will cry together, first album of love and friendship that celebrates life in all its beauty, with candor and light.
“Listen to the passing time / Listen to the spring coming / Listen to your life moving forward”, he sings elsewhere in Listen.
Of course, the shadow of Harmonium hovers in both form and substance, but there is something very contemporary in this ode to human relations, in these songs interpreted as on tiptoe and this identity completely assumed. .
And we will cry together is not a “dated” record, but rather the work of a young man who wants to breathe a little human warmth into the world and who obviously would like to slow down time – it must be said and be prepared, tempo is very, very slow, especially that of the first three songs, which evoke the end of a love.
The very stripped-down realization of Salomé Leclerc, Simon Kearney and Étienne Coppée, however, avoids the pitfall of heaviness, the danger that awaited them around the corner. Rather that the whole is heavy, it emanates like a breath, a rather irresistible air side. The piano-voice version sung in harmony by I would like to see New York, by Daniel Lavoie, very hippie or late night song around the fire, is a good example, as well as the two soaring musical interludes.
“And we will cry, we will cry, we will cry together, tears of joy”, sings Étienne Coppée at the end of Nothing bigger. The proposal is clear and may seem like a blue flower to some, but it’s take it or leave it. We take.
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And we will cry together
Etienne Coppée
Simone Records