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. Sunday August 21, Laurent Voulzy explains to us one of the paradoxes of his writing system with Alain Souchon.
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So we were with Laurent Voulzy, who had taken his guitar. We were discussing his long-term collaboration with Alain Souchon, and the way in which he wrote song texts for him. Imagine that there is always the same problem, because Laurent Voulzy works in yoghurt, that is to say a kind of abstract English language that musicians marked by Anglo-Saxon pop like to use.
In this episode of behind our voicesyou hear excerpts from:
Laurent Voulzy, paradoxical system, 1992
Laurent Voulzy sings to us paradoxical system, 2021
Laurent Voulzy, paradoxical system, 1992
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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.