EMILIE SIMON

EMILIE SIMON
L'OLYMPIA (2007)
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Although Emilie Simon is a conservatory-trained experimental musician with a strong theoretical grounding, she has also made a name for herself both as a mainstream soundtrack composer and as an electronic pop musician not far removed from Björk or the Knife, with a distinctively soft, almost babyish voice that at times recalls both early Kate Bush and Claudine Longet. Born in the small coastal city of Montpellier, France, in 1978 into a musical family (her mother is a pianist, her father a sound engineer), Simon began studying music at a young age, and followed her conservatory training in voice with advanced studies in early music at the Sorbonne and electronic composition at the Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The combination of cutting-edge electronic theory and a strong grounding in ancient vocal traditions gives Simon's work its unique tension.

1. Dame De Lotus
2. Fleur De Saison
3. Rose Hybride De Thé
4. In The Lake
5. Sweet Blossom
6. Swimming
7. Opium
8. Le Vieil Amant
9. Ice Girl
10. I Wanna Be Your Dog
11. Song Of The Storm
12. Never Fall In Love
13. Desert
14. Alicia
15. En Cendres
16. My Old Friend
17. Graines D'Etoiles
18. Flowers
19. Come As You Are