After the album Loved published last year, a success with 140 million cumulative streaming and 280,000 physical copies sold, and crowned with a Victoire de la Musique for best clip for We (directed by Brice VDH), Julien Doré returns with Loved again, an expanded reissue released this Friday, November 26.
Enriched with three unpublished works, including The lethal Weapon in duet with Eddy de Pretto unveiled a few weeks ago, and a handful of hits fromLoved played in acoustics, this record will be sold entirely for the benefit of the voluntary association Les Blouses Roses.
The Pink Blouses “is an association that has existed for 75 years, with volunteers who work in hospitals with children and in nursing homes with seniors“, details Julien Doré.”I told myself that my media speaking time could serve them, highlight them and allow them to attract volunteers“, continues the singer-songwriter.Loved again will be used to finance projects and train volunteers.
In recent years, Julien Doré 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 affected populations of the Roya valley (Alpes-Maritimes), an area ravaged by flooding last year.
“Make the luck that i have“, comes back often in his mouth. He proves it once again in Loved again revisiting We in acoustics with a young artist unknown to the general public, Silda.
During confinement, he came across a video of this singer who lives in the Marne and who resumes We with its kalimba (wooden resonance box surmounted by iron slats). “His version was a mixture of radicality and sweetness“. He could have simply reposted this video on his social networks. But he finally offered to sing We as a duo for this reissue.
On a previous acoustic tour, in theaters, he had already given a chance to young amateur musicians never taken 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 take the stage with him the next day. He has not forgotten the name of this young local artist, Silvio Cicero. Nor this Tahitian song O oe to oe rima, “which speaks of the hand that weaves, the one that cultivates, etc. “, which is found on Loved again. One way of thanking Polynesia for the welcome received there during its visit three years ago, “something crazy“.
Julien Doré, who has not visited concert halls for almost four years, will be on tour throughout France from next February, until the end of the year, with around fifty dates in the regions. and four evenings at the AccorHotel Arena in Paris Bercy (April 8, 9 and 10, 2022 and December 9, 2022). April 8 and 9 are already full, as are several Zénith in the regions.