Émilie Simon is truly a talented young lady. Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Electronic Maestro, she is all these things. And I just love her new album. Franky Knight. A Masterpiece.
Mon chevalier
"Mon chevalier", chanson du film "La délicatesse", extrait de l'album "Franky Knight".
Franky's Princess
Live in Paris in November 2011.
If you want to see real talent, check out her live cover of this classic, from a few years ago.
Come as you are
And how about ...........
All Is White
Émilie Simon composed the OST from the French film "La Marche de l'Empereur" ("The Emperor's Journey" or "The March of the Penguins").
Oscar award-winning film, it is rated 7.8 on imdb.com
And just because I cannot get enough of her live performance (even if it's on TV).
Dreamland
Émilie Simon is a French singer and composer born on July 17, 1978 in Montpellier. She began her musical education at a French conservatory at 7 years old. By age 18, she was studying Musicology at the University in Montpellier, France, and then obtained her Master in Musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Émilie was intrigued by the idea of combining her traditional musical education with new music technologies and studio experimentations. She developed these interests into unique skills at the cutting edge new technology music school, the IRCAM in Paris, which to this day remains the only center in the world dedicated to contemporary musical research and production, bringing science and art together in order to widen instrumentation and rejuvenate musical language.
Here she met Cyrille Brissot who she still works with today to develop and build specific instruments adapted to Émilie’s needs, both in the studio and on stage, including the “Brissot” - a breathtaking arm controller that allows her to remotely control, modulate and transform her live voice through a series of controlled effects. Émilie uses a variety of other new technology devices including Yamaha’s “Tenori-on” and a variety of other new hardware and software. Émilie uses this technology to give herself a wide range of versatility on stage, including being able to control everything – from beats to multiple instruments to vocal harmonies and modulation simultaneously while alone on stage. [LastFM]
