Emilie Simon - The Jesus Rolls (Original Score) '2020

Tracks list

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 Simons work its unique tension. Simons
attractive mixture of art rock and catchy electronic pop was first unveiled on
2003s Emilie Simon, released to positive reviews and eventually winning a
Victoire de la Musique (the French equivalent to the Grammy) for best
electronica album of the year. Documentary director Luc Jacquet then contacted
Simon to score his immersive 2005 nature documentary March of the Penquins;
Simons expressive soundtrack won the composer her second Victoire de la Musique
and was nominated for a Cesar (the French equivalent to the Oscar) but lost to
Bruno Coulais score for Les Choristes. Inspired by the musique concrète
elements of the soundtrack, which featured sounds of cracking ice floes and
other elemental source recordings, Simons third album, 2006s Vegetal, outdoes
Stevie Wonders Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants by not only including
lyrics about vegetation but also sampled sounds taken from actual plants. In
late 2006, Emilie Simon was finally properly introduced to American audiences
through the release of The Flower Book, a compilation of tracks from her first
three European albums. The following years March of the Empress repackaged her
March of the Penguins music with two bonus tracks; a live album, Olympia,
arrived in 2007 as well. Her third proper album, The Big Machine, featured songs
sung mostly in English and was released in France and the UK in 2009, while US
fans had to wait until 2011 to get the album domestically. ~ Stewart Mason

Tracklist:
01. Emilie Simon - Always Now (2:54)
02. Emilie Simon - Always Now (Instrumental) (3:48)
03. Emilie Simon - The Bowling Salsa (feat. Nino, Bebe Baliardo) (3:13)
04. Emilie Simon - Le Mambo du coiffeur (3:00)
05. Emilie Simon - Joie de vivre (1:47)
06. Emilie Simon - Melancolie (Piano Version) (2:00)
07. Emilie Simon - Melancolie (2:25)
08. Emilie Simon - Fleur de saison (Gypsy Version) (4:06)
09. Emilie Simon - Always Now (Extented Version) (3:24)
10. Emilie Simon - Seven Six Seven (3:57)

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