Etienne Daho celebrates Christmas with the reissue of his album “Tirer la nuit sur lesétoiles” and unreleased releases

Etienne Daho has just released a “deluxe” edition of his latest album “Tirer la nuit sur lesétoiles”. A way to join the musical tradition of Christmas albums.

Etienne Daho is firing on all cylinders at the end of the year, as he continues a tour which will stop at the Accor Arena in Paris on December 22. He is releasing a “deluxe” version of Shoot the stars at night with four new tracks, Christmas album style, almost a genre in itself.

For Etienne Daho, Christmas with you, one of the unreleased items in this reissue, is an old fantasy as much as a reference to the “Christmas albums”: “I love Christmas albums, Christmas songs. I’ve been preparing a Christmas album for about 15 years. The lyrics are complicated to make, you shouldn’t fall into some kind of cliché. I love this song , if it wasn’t for me, I would listen to it all day long.” More generally, if certain titles were already on the way at the time of the album’s release Shoot the stars at night, in September, the new edition offers alternative versions, remixes, lush for fans, because he wanted it: “I’m a record buyer, I don’t like being screwed at all. So I made it clear that I would do this version only if there was money, if it was generous for the people who will buy it.”

“I feel like this is my best tour”

Beyond the record, there is the tour, intense, in large venues this time – from the Zénith to the Accor Arena two days before Christmas Eve, in fact. And a pleasure that does not die out for him, quite the contrary: “It’s extraordinary, I feel like it’s my best tour. Everything seems to be working exactly as I had imagined. It’s a bit of a ‘love tour’! Even if I I’ve always considered my tours to be parties, this time, it’s really a large-scale party with hits, with an audience that is totally into it… I have the feeling of regaining a little bit of the energy, the fervor from the very beginning.”

And even if you have to endure the Tour-bus and stays far from home: “This is my life, it’s been like this for 40 years, or more. I’m made for this, I love to move, I love what’s new. Every time, it’s the promise of a new adventure every evening.” An Etienne Daho in great shape, therefore, with this intact taste for concerts and this desire to continue a fruitful collaboration with a duo he admires, Unloved, and which produces new unreleased songs on this disc.