Behind our voices. Laurent Voulzy and the flight of “L’Oiseau malin”

All summer in “Behind our voices we meet eight major artists of French song who, at home and their instrument in hand, reveal to us the secrets of their creations. Saturday August 13, his guitar in hand, Laurent Voulzy looks back on the singular birth of one of his songs recorded in duet with Alain Souchon.

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So we were with Laurent Voulzy, who had taken his guitar. We were talking about inspiration, its mysteries and its surprises, and Laurent Voulzy told us how he composed this song, The clever bird, on a text by Alain Souchon and with whom he recorded it in 2014, for their album for two.

In this episode of behind our voicesyou hear excerpts from:

Alain Souchon and Laurent Voulzy, clever bird, 2014

Laurent Voulzy sings to us clever bird, 2022

New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein, 4th movement of the Serenade in G major said “Little Night Music”, 1973

Alain Souchon and Laurent Voulzy, clever bird, 2014

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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.

In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.


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