Melancholy, performance, commitment… Aloïse Sauvage presents “Devouring”

Aloïse Sauvage releases his first album "Devouring". - Julot Bandit

One year after his first EP, Aloïse Sauvage released his first album Dévorantes on Friday.
On February 14, the singer sang the title A horizontally during the Victoires de la Musique where she was named in the Revelation stage category.
Singer, the young woman is also a circus player and an actress, and notably played in the film 120 beats per minute in 2017.

Actress, circus performer, singer ... Difficult to get Aloïse Sauvage into a hut. In 2017, the general public was able to discover her face at the cinema, where she played a small role in the multi-award-winning film 120 beats per minute . In 2020, it is in song that the 27-year-old artist decided to make his voice heard, by presenting his first album Devouring on Friday, a year after a first noticed EP.

"It took me a long time to dare to sing, music is the most intimate thing I have done to date. This is my own role, there is no mask, I really tell what I am going through, ”she explains. But that does not mean that she renounces her other passions. She now combines song, dance and acrobatics on stage, as during the Victoires de la Musique on February 14 on France 2, where she delivered a real scenic performance by interpreting her title A horizontale . It was not for nothing that she was named in the Stage Revelation category.

Was it important for you to be nominated for the Victoires de la musique?

Yes, because it is a mark of recognition from the professional world and a certain approval of what we are trying to do as a young artist. It is the beginning of my journey and being seen and recognized for what I am trying to create is important. And that brings visibility, singing on live TV I never did. It is impressive because we know that it is broadcast and that there are potentially many people who will be able to discover me through this.

And what could be better for you than the “stage revelation” category?

I couldn't have asked for more. When I learned that I was appointed I was very moved. The stage for me is the most important space, where the things that I create and that come out of me really reveal themselves in my room, on my notebooks, in the studio… This is the place where I meet people who bring my music to life, who listen to it, where I feel most at home in the world and in life. This is my place of a thousand and one possible.

Your performance mixed song, dance, acrobatics ... Was it a way for you to prove that all your passions are reconcilable?

On stage you imagine a blank space and you can do what you want. I went to the circus to do dance, theater and singing. When I arrive on stage I do not come to do the circus but to show the person that I am the best I can. And there is the voice, but also the body. At the moment music is the project that can bring everything together and I hope that soon we will see that there can be all that. It is important that I present myself in the most sincere way possible, true and total. At least I try.

Was it your family that encouraged you to do more activities to find where to thrive?

My parents did not push me to become the child prodigy who multiplies activities. I come from a Parisian suburban city where I went to college on foot, and in my street there was everything: the MJC, the conservatory, the swimming pool, the primary school, the neighborhood house ... There was everything and very quickly I was attracted to it from an early age. At 7 years old I wanted to make the flute, after I added two instruments, I was doing dance, theater, gym ... I would rather say that my parents supported me, and they trust because when I do something I do it thoroughly.

Two weeks after the Victories, you are releasing your first album "Devouring". What is behind this title?

It's the title of a song that closes my album in which I talk about my desires. He didn't come right away, but he jumped into my face like when you don't want to accept the obvious, but you have no choice. It tells first of all the desires that devour me, but it is also my songs because I tell my life there and it eats my heart, my brain, my time ... I get so involved. There are also my fears, my anxieties, my joys, my love stories, my faults, my emotions ... I am someone very sensitive and I express it in songs by telling scraps of my life. I find this word very beautiful, poetic and a bit lyrical. It has a slightly animal, raw, carnivorous side, it makes a little wink with my last name.

In this album, you address in particular the "mega down". Is it easier for you to write when you're bad?

I find it easier to write about things that affect me a little painfully. After that I take pleasure in transforming them into songs and I always like to bring a positive energy in what I transmit. Hope and courage are things that matter to me and I hope that this is reflected in my songs even if they are melancholy. But yes when I think about it it often starts from a melancholy, a dead end, something a little painful. But in 2020 I will try to write super happy songs! The last two years of my life have been very complex, very dense, there have been many changes, a bit like a transition to adulthood. I can only relate what I experience and it is emotionally intense enough. If the next two years are festive and hilarious, I will make funny songs!

There is also a title against homophobia with "Omowi". A hymn committed anti manifesto for all?

I cannot say that I am a committed artist. I am emotionally involved, but it's just my life. I deliver it in song and I did not tell myself that I was going to carry a political message. It's engaged because it talks about a theme that is not yet fully accepted, but for me it's just a part of my life. I'm not saying that I disengage from this song, on the contrary, it's just that I have a hard time with the fact that as soon as we make a song on a theme related to what is happening in society, necessarily you are said to be a committed artist. I hope that with my message I can make a difference. I know some really militant people and I wouldn't pretend to qualify myself like that. When I write Omowi , Whole Life or Dad , I tell homosexuality because I learn love, I experience it - before with men, now I am more with women. If I'm talking about a love story, I want it to be accessible in reading, so often I like to use the pronoun "you" and not necessarily "her" so that it can be universal.

There is still something very frontal in the lyrics…

Of course, when in the second verse I say "catch your breath and your signs and go walk further", I'm not talking about the local grocer! Obviously I give pictures of people demonstrating against the fact that I have the right to exist on this Earth! Of course I am against it! Indeed, people who parade in the street, who are my age and who wave signs to say that I do not have the right to have children and to marry, sorry but me it makes me cry.

I have the impression that many artists are afraid of this label "committed artist" ...

I have no problem saying that I am committed but I do not want, at least not at the moment, to be asked for whom I vote or to be associated with political or politicized words . Maybe it scares me because I find that I have neither the shoulders nor the knowledge. However I am committed and by making songs of this type I commit myself because I put myself naked. It's more of an emotional engagement. I have only one desire, it is that Omowi explodes the figures and that everyone speaks about it and that we have other representations. I am very proud to be a young woman who brings other representations to young people. Failing to save the world, I hope to bring positive emotions that can change mentalities.

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