Laurent Danicher is releasing a second album this October: The lovers of noon tells the duet of the adventures of a couple on the run. If the musician wrote and composed his new album in the Var, his new home port, it was on his Alsatian lands that he wanted to present it.
He admits having melodies running through his head all the time: Laurent Danicher has a very personal way of composing. The guitarist and singer creates all the instrumental on his computer and refines the final composition at home, well before going to the studio. “I turn on my computer to start working on a song when it’s completely finished in my head, with all the melodies, structure and arrangements”, he explains.
Once the music for this second album was written, Laurent Danicher asked his lyricist friend Grégory Peltier to come to the Var, where he now resides. Little by little the adventure of Noon lovers emerges day by day. “We started writing the first song not knowing what it was going to be about. Since we were in the South, we decided that it was going to be in the South, we did it in one day, we didn’t know what was going to speak the second song and finally all the lyrics of the album were written in five days”, says the musician. The result is airy, simple and unadorned. Refined two-voice orchestral electro-pop
Danicher’s second album embarks on a musical and sentimental road trip. Twelve tracks alongside mythical couples straight out of the real or cinematographic world. The soul of Bonnie & Clyde, Sailor & Lula or even Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, hangs over The Lovers of Noon. “I was coming out of jail, when I saw her alone, on a bench in the port of la londe des Maures”, sings Danicher on the title The Londe.
For this new opus, Laurent Danicher gives the reply to his sister-in-law, Laetitia Thomas. The singer immediately agreed to participate in the trip. “It’s my childhood dream, it’s magic, it gives me emotion, I’m proud that he chose me”, she rejoices. The adventure of Noon lovers listens like a story with a beginning and an end. There are guns, break-ins, dances, shoot-outs and a moving cover of The good life by Sacha Distel. It all ends with a goodbye.
The lovers of noon by Danicher was released by La Souterraine on October 6, 2022. The album is available to listen to online and in record stores.