"A trance": Jane Birkin tells about her work with Étienne Daho for her new album

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A project that brings together Jane Birkin and Étienne Daho, it is ecstasy assured for many fans of rock, pop, and French song.

Good news, the duo publish next November

, the new album of the English icon.

The singer signs all the texts, while her playmate took care of the arrangements and part of the composition.

Jane Birkin explains this exciting collaboration at the microphone of Émilie Mazoyer.

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20 years of waiting for Daho

The title of this new album refers to a scene that Jane Birkin lived, and that she imagines universal.

“You wake up around 2 am-3am and you need to be reassured, and that the person sleeping peacefully next to you tell you everything you want to hear,” she recalls.

"At this hour, you become a kind of terrorist of the state of love." 

But "

" especially takes the title of a film directed by the singer in 1992, in which play Jacques Perrin and Christine Boisson.

The feature film then became a play.

"Who was coming out of the stage?" Asks Jane Birkin.

"Étienne Daho. Once, twice, maybe three times. And he said to me 'Why don't we make a record on this theme?'. He asked me quite often."

The singer will have finally had to wait until 2020 to see his dream come true.

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NEW JANE BIRKIN ALBUM Etienne and Jean-Louis Piérot finished last night the recording of Jane Birkin's new album “Oh!

Sorry, you were sleeping… ”to be released in November at Barclay / Universal.

Texts by Jane Birkin and music and production by Etienne and Jean-Louis Piérot.

Photo: Pierre René-Worms @janebirkindaily @ jane.birkin @janebirkinfans @pierrereneworms @chopiok

A post shared by Etienne Daho Officiel (@ etienne.daho) on June 11, 2020 at 1:43 am PDT

This collaboration was finally obvious, according to the singer.

"He understood me so perfectly, so completely," she says of the figure of modern young people.

"Our anxieties seemed to be the same. So did our hysteria. He completely understood where I wanted to go, and he pushed me even further. It all went like a trance."

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A first extract from 

 is already available.

It is the song 

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A song that also refers to a memory, that of his daughters' holiday games burying the corpses of small animals, and to a film, that of René Clément released in 1952.