Indolore is often qualified as the most exciting French indie folk gem of the past few years. After sharing the stage with Sia and touring with Morcheeba, then writing and recording a cult album with British rock legend Terry Reid, Indolore has embarked on a solo adventure singing both in English and French. He met with critical and public success from his debut EP "Positive Girls", thanks in particular to the indie hit "Je rêve d'é" (over 1 million streams today). He played many concerts in Europe and in America where he was invited to the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. He recorded his following album "Love Letters from Eylenda", far from his home base, in Iceland, inside the Sigur Rós’ iconic studio.
By Kamil Bobin
Discovered via Musosoup
Kamil) Hey Indolore, super nice to have the chance to chat with you. What first got you into music?
I think I quickly tried to escape from my real life, to imagine another world. I was a shy and rather lonely teenager. Music gave me a tool to dream.
Describe your favorite and least favorite part about being a musician.
The greatest reward for a musician is to touch people with a song, to have the chance that they appropriate it, that they make it their companion for the time of a trip, or even for a whole life who knows? What I like less, or rather what I dread is losing fire, getting tired. Sometimes I want to stop everything, and then I come across a street, an unknown landscape, a new sky, a woman, and I throw myself on my guitar again :)
Your latest song is 'Danser Le Soir'. Can you share with us the background of its creation and did any unusual things happen during its creation?
The first notes, the first improvised arpeggios immediately transported me to Japan, to the Tokyo night. I imagined myself running after a love already far away, I saw myself losing control, drowning my sorrows in the immensity of an unknown city. French, my mother tongue, gave me the words to tell this furiously romantic story. Small peculiarity of this track: I also play the soprano saxophone, a premiere for me!
A UK tour awaits you in March and May. Can you write something more?
After these difficult times of confinement, of closure, it was high time to go back on an adventure, to cross the seas. I had the idea for this "across the channel" tour. As a French, Great Britain is our first exotic horizon. And as a musician, we can even see it as the "promised land". I have always had a special relationship with this country. I'm very happy to be back on stage there.
Here are the dates:
Mar 12 - Folkestone, UK - The Chambers
Mar 14 - Brighton, UK - Folklore Rooms
Mar 16 - Beckenham, UK - Three Hounds Beer Co
May 5 - London, UK - Camden Chapel
Tickets are on sale now: https://in….net/shows
Where are you from and do you have a stable home or do you prefer travelling?
I come from a small seaside town in the south west of France, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, which has a strange and cute name: Mimizan. My heart is sand. I have been living in Paris for many years now, with my two grown-up children. I may fly away to other horizons soon. I'm thinking about it.
How do you prepare for performances?
I rehearse a lot. I need to. Song after song. I try not to let them slip through my fingers, to feel them deep inside me, as if I had just written them.
How do you nurture your own creativity?
My emotions are pulling the strings. Tears, laughter, love.
If you could go open a show for any artist who would it be?
I would love to open for Glen Hansard or Damien Rice. Maybe my distant Irish origins have something to do with it :)
Who's your ideal musician to collaborate with and why?
Oh! If I am authorized to dream, I would say Paul McCartney. Because hopefully, at tea time, he would tell me what it was like to listen to Sergeant Pepper's mix for the first time, that night of 1967, in Abbey Road.
What are your plans for the future?
I have this slightly crazy dream of taking the part of a country singer, for the time of an improvised tour. Driving my old vintage pick-up, my guitar in the back, I would like to cross the middle lands, the southern states of the USA, sing in bowling alleys, diners, old cinemas. Between David Lynch and Wim Wenders :) Dream or not, it's planned for 2023!